Author: Kevin Evertt FitzMaurice, M.S.

•1 Your inner responses to your inner responses are the first point for your intervention.•2 Your problem with your problem is invariably the best place to start your problem-solving and coping interventions.•3 Stepping back to gain perspective on a pr…

•1 You demand other people change not realizing how little you change and how hard you find it to change your habits.•2 You worry about bad things happening not realizing that worry can function like prayer for the things you worry about.•3 You complai…

•1 Your fear of failure is failure by default.•2 Your fear of rejection is the expectation of rejection.•4 Your fear of abandonment is the abandonment of yourself.•3 Your fear of repression is the repression of imagined repression.•5 Your fear of looki…

•1 Good counselors will help you to first find your calm mind before asking you to face a counseling issue.•2 Without a calm mind to face an issue you might find that the issue increases your emotional instability and cognitive closed-mindedness.•3 Wit…

•1 People are an internal stage where the players on the stage are mistaken for the stage.•2 People are an internal stage where the audience becomes the actors, and the actors become the stage.•3 People are an internal stage where emotions and thoughts…

•1 Grateful for God wanting to increase even though He does not need to.•2 Grateful for God sharing His love for His only begotten Son, Jesus the Christ.•3 Grateful for God’s forgiveness and mercy even though I cannot be worthy of either.•4 Grateful fo…

•1 Internal statements are not internal actions because they have no impact on anything else.•2 Internal amplifications or magnifications are not internal actions because they do nothing else.•3 Internal loops, repetitions, and ruminations are not inte…

•1 Internal statements are not internal actions because they have no impact on anything else.•2 Internal amplifications or magnifications are not internal actions because they do nothing else.•3 Internal loops, repetitions, and ruminations are not inte…

•1 Psychological actions are actions that impact what they respond to such that effects can be noted on what was responded to; however, for humans, this would require magical abilities that humans do not possess.•2 To act is to respond but if the only …

•1 Self-esteem is a game of dressing up stick figures in your mind.•2 Adults play with dolls too, but their dolls are mental stick figures that they clothe with self-images.•3 Adults play with dolls too, but their dolls are mental stick figures that th…