By Harry Sydney
I think when domestic abuse happens, it is when parents or people in a
relationship fail to communicate the right way. When they don’t communicate the right way, they start communicating the wrong way with yelling, screaming and physicality. They are trying to send the message with their hands instead of their head.
There are a lot of things that go into domestic abuse, just like with drinking and drugs. There are a lot of things that …

By Harry Sydney
When we deal with anxiety, what is happening is that we are having storms in our head. The storms come from different areas, usually with issues from the past. We are worrying about that so much it is hard for us to see the future. When we are worrying about the past and panicking about the future, we are not doing the one thing we can do, is controlling the present.
When we talk about anxiety, we …

By Harry Sydney
When someone comes in regarding low self-esteem, we often see that person not feeling good about themselves because they are always being compared to someone else. They are always looking to what others are doing.
Let’s look at what you are doing, and what you do good, and praise yourself so you start feeling good about the things you can do. Then you will have the strength to challenge other things. Everybody has low self-esteem in some …

By Harry Sydney
When a kid comes in with alcohol issues one of the first things we talk about is what is going on in his life to make him think alcohol is going to make it better. Because so many times when we think about drugs and alcohol, we think of drugs and alcohol as the problem. In my opinion those are not the problem. The problem is what is causing the drugs or the drinking. That’s when we …