Dream – Basic Steps Mental Health

What’s the Point?

Scott Alpert — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:57:26 +0000

“What’s the point?” said a client to me the other day. How about you? How many times have you felt like giving up? I have found that people with a history of things not going their way assume that everything in their life will go bad. But this doesn’t have to be the case. What […]

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Desire – Helping Others Before Myself

Scott Alpert — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:00:32 +0000

For Thanksgiving, I was about to do the typical “stay-at-home thing” like I had for the last few years but wanted to be with family. It had been a while, being caught up in running the facility, but now I needed a break and wanted to make my 90-year-old mother happy. I was getting back […]

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Dream Your Dream

Scott Alpert — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:29:56 +0000

It’s that time of year again. The time to set your sights on the new year, create some plans that are unobtainable, disappoint yourself, and then fall back into the same old limiting patterns. Humiliating? Of course, it is. This article was written to improve your odds of obtaining your desires, but in order to […]

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Ending of a Year Beginning of the Next

Scott Alpert — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:26:47 +0000

How was your year? Did you accomplish what you wanted? Another year down and another one is about to start. Such is life. The ultimate question is, what did you learn? Since life is all about trial and error, if we fail to learn from failures, we are destined to repeat them. And, if you […]

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Doorways of Opportunity

Scott Alpert — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:00:04 +0000

You’ve seen it, people moping around as if there is a dark cloud above their heads. As a therapist, I see it in body posture, overall energy, and the feeling of someone feeling defeated. I guess, when life becomes one disappointment after another you just expect it to continue this way. How do we stop […]

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The Key to Getting through School

Scott Alpert — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:00:05 +0000

When I was 32 years old, I decided to go back to school and study something I was interested in – Psychology. It had been 10 or so years since I dropped out of Long Beach State, but wanted to get out of the construction trade and knew that I needed to finish my Bachelor’s […]

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Motivation – A Deeper Cut

Scott Alpert — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:36:44 +0000

As the exploration continues on improving motivation, one thing that needs to be emphasized is the importance to address a problem on all levels to get the maximum results. We took a good look into the physical level, now we will into getting our mindset into proper focus. The mental level will amaze you. […]

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Have Hope, Dare to Dream

Scott Alpert — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 15:14:25 +0000

If you have the opportunity, a great book to read is “Love, Miracles, and Medicine” by Dr. Bernie Segal. He helped people with advanced cases of cancer heal and sometimes without medical interventions. He advocated having the desire to live. There aren’t a lot of clinical books on the value of hope, but with hope, […]

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Tis’ the Season for Depression

Scott Alpert — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 19:44:03 +0000

Welcome to the holiday season. If you’ve had issues in the past, they tend to surface this period of time. Remembrances of family, relationships, friends can stir up a lot of difficult emotions and memories. In school, they would say, “If you think you are enlightened, wait till you go home for Thanksgiving.” Using the […]

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Are You a Doer or a Viewer?

Scott Alpert — Wed, 25 May 2022 04:29:04 +0000

An interesting topic popped up in a process group this week about being a doer or a viewer. How would you answer this? I often wonder if our tendency to explore our world or simply watch it stems from the family we grew up in. Did your family of origin tend to sit and watch […]

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