Dr. Patricia Bay - Therapy In A Nutshell

How does your cell phone and other technology affect your relationships? Are you addicted to your smart phone? This program will help you take a look at how you handled your usage.

It's easy to be positive and loving. It is much harder to deal with negative and contentious conflict. This episode will give you some basic skills to deal with conflict in your life.

Dr. Patty, along with guests Connie Spooner and Lillian Deeble, discuss caregiving the terminally ill. All three women had husband's who suffered from Frontotemporal Degeneration and all three cared for their men for over ten years. Learn how you can survive caregiving or how you can help a caregiver you know.

Developing healthy relationships is one of life's greatest challenges. The quality of your relationships can determine the level of fulfillment and happiness you experience in life. Trusting is a very important part of a healthy relationship. This episode will talk about how we learn to trust, how do we heal broken trust and how do we create a life of connection and intimacy.

Let's talk about anxiety. What are some of the causes, what happens in your brain and what can you do to help yourself. learn some great coping skills.

How do we let go of all the old pain, trauma and experiences that color how we deal with our current world? The things we hold onto, believing they make us feel safe, can actually increase our stress. This episode will help you define what you cling to, help you learn to let go, and deal with the things that come at you in your life. Learn to empty your hands.

This is Dr. Patty's first show. She tells a little bit about herself and then discussed the issue of homelessness. How do we keep our humanity and still want things to change in our communities?

This episode will give you some great skills to improve all your relationships. Whether you are wanting to improve communications with your partner, kids, friends or coworkers, this podcast will help bring a better you to the table.

Do you have trouble stating exactly how you feel about something? This is especially difficult when you have negative or controversial thoughts and feelings. Do you get too aggressive? Do you often feel like a doormat and cannot stand up for yourself? This podcast will teach you an effective and positive way to express your true thoughts and feelings. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patricia-bay/support

Who is the "home supervisor" in your house? Does one person do a larger share of the  "gotta do's" that keep a home running smoothly? Do you fight with your partner about "helping more around the house?" This podcast will define the home supervisor role and give you concrete skills to talk about this with your partner and family.  There is also an exercise to help you make the division of labor much more fair.