Living – Basic Steps Mental Health

Conscious Living

Scott Alpert — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:00:39 +0000

What’s familiar is familiar, no matter what it is. Bad relationships, addictions, bad habits. If it is a daily experience then trying to change it takes effort. Are you willing to do so? Hey, I get it. I too have been stuck in the same ol’, same ol’ time and time again, so being stuck […]

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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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Special Memory #8

Scott Alpert — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 15:23:47 +0000

There are some interesting experiences as a therapist, which have aided me in being the best therapist I can be. When life and death situations presented themselves in my practice, I wasn’t that prepared to deal with them. As a college intern, my first placement was at Tarzana Treatment Center, a facility just north of […]

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The Spirituality of Psychology

Scott Alpert — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:00:47 +0000

I’ve hesitated for years on presenting this topic due to the fact that when I entered this industry my coworkers looked down on my approach. In graduate school, we all spoke the same language and had one thing in common – a belief that there was a higher purpose in life than eating, getting married, […]

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Life and Loss

Scott Alpert — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 17:00:44 +0000

We had a common theme this past week at Basic Steps Mental Health and that was with loss. The subject of loss has many facets. There is loss of life, loss of a relationship, loss of health, and loss of purpose – as with retirement – to name a few. When we go through an […]

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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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A Simple Exercise to Obtain Your Dreams!

Scott Alpert — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 15:35:10 +0000

How great would it be to create the world in your dreams? If you could, what would you want to have? Would it be your job? Where you live? Improved health and vitality? How would your family? How would you like that to be? If you are the type of person that focuses on “what […]

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