Family – Basic Steps Mental Health

Holiday Story

Scott Alpert — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:45:46 +0000

Happy holidays to you and yours. I don’t know about you, but when the holidays come around, memories of the past come rushing to mind—both good and bad. Luckily, I have plenty of tools to support me through the old anger and hurt, and I try to hold onto the good memories for as long […]

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Overcoming Anxiety

Scott Alpert — Tue, 20 May 2025 13:00:37 +0000

It’s about time to talk about my battle with anxiety. Anxiety was thought of as a burden that everybody had to carry. I looked at it as the cross I had to bear for the rest of my life. As most of my friends did, I turned to drugs to numb my fears, but after […]

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Obligation – Stay or Go

Scott Alpert — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:00:09 +0000

Are we so entrenched in societal rules that we’ve lost track of our own well-being? For many people, they have married a person because it was the correct thing to do. Then they will remain in the relationship because of the children, and will see the signs that their partner is abusive, but if they […]

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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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Are You Enlightened?

Scott Alpert — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:00:44 +0000

If you think you are enlightened, go home for the holidays. Well, at least that was the joke they told us in grad school. Family has a way of pushing our buttons even if you believe you are an ascended master. After years and years of personal growth, I recently went home for the holidays […]

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Homeless for the Holidays

Scott Alpert — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:00:48 +0000

I was setting up my office Christmas tree this past holiday and what flashed on me was how I was homeless this time of the year in 1981. Unfortunately, I was not alone. Each year more and more people are homeless, familyless, or friendless. That storybook holiday so often packaged each year on TV and […]

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A Typical Couple’s Intake

Scott Alpert — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:48:33 +0000

The following is a dramatization – no real persons were depicted or harmed “I don’t know why we are going here. We can handle things on our own,” says the husband as the wife drives them into the parking lot. “I’ve tried, you haven’t, and things are not changing. We need help and that’s why […]

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A Fond Farewell – Charity

Scott Alpert — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:23:20 +0000

With a heavy heart, one of my staff members is leaving the nest and moving to Florida with her family in a few days. We have been together for six years and after supervising her during her college years and while she was working to obtain her counseling license we had grown very close. I […]

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A Tribute to Peter

Scott Alpert — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:41:46 +0000

Last week my father-in-law passed away. The tricky thing was he lived 30 miles away from the nearest neighbor, just north of Joshua Tree National Forest in California, and all by himself. It was a miracle a delivery person found his body or his dog Max would have been lost too. Peter was a young […]

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Energetic Family

Scott Alpert — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:58:52 +0000

Psychology is the science of relationships. Our relationships with ourselves mirror our relationships with others. Therefore, it is extremely important for us to have a good relationship within. To do so becomes quite an art form – from repeating positive affirmations, using self-appreciation, to setting intentions to be more positive can set you on the […]

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