By Lynne Head
I feel humbly honored by the thousands of courageous couples who have allowed me to witness their most personal struggles in their attempt to create a more passionate marriage. Creating a passionate marriage will probably cost you. Progress and personal growth always do present a challenge.
If you decide to pursue sex therapy, you’ll be looking into the very heart of your personal reality. The one thing we want the most (intimacy with another person) is the one thing that we most fear. We are afraid that if we ever really allow ourselves to be completely vulnerable with the one we say we love, we might lose that person; and we wonder if we could survive that loss. So, we hold back who we really are as a defense from the possible loss.
Please be patient with yourself and allow yourself to be open. If you find yourself needing help, or just another perspective, please call me for an appointment.
[Lynne Head is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in marriages, relationships, couples, and parenting/co-parenting counseling. Located in Austin, TX, Lynne can be reached by phone at 512-878-3452, or by email. For more information on dealing with marriage infidelity, see Lynne's Couples Therapy page.]
By Lynne Head
The violation of trust in your marriage as the result of an affair can be positively devastating physically, emotionally, psychologically, sexually, and morally. There are very effective ways to heal the pain and rebuild the trust when a partner has betrayed the marital relationship. In fact, in my 29 years of being a therapist, what I’ve noticed is that when the betrayal has been discussed openly and honestly, and the couples work together to resolve the precipitants for the unfaithful act, couples can blossom in a powerful way.
[Lynne Head is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in marriages, relationships, couples, and parenting/co-parenting counseling. Located in Austin, TX, Lynne can be reached by phone at 512-878-3452, or by email. For more information on dealing with marriage infidelity, see Lynne's Couples Therapy page.]
By Lynne Head
What does a Normal Family look like? Jane Howard says, “Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
When I lived in Dallas, I met some of the best family therapists in this country. There are basically fifteen traits common in what we could call Healthy families according to my colleague Delores Curran. During the next few blogs, we will review these traits. Peter Collier once said, “Your family is what you’ve got…” It’s your limits and your possibilities. Sometimes you’ll get so far away from your family, you’ll think you’re outside its influence forever; then before you figure out what’s happening, it will be right beside you, pulling the strings. Some people get crushed by their families. Others are saved by them.
[Lynne Head is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in marriages, relationships, parenting and family counseling. Located in Austin, TX, Lynne can be reached by phone at 512-878-3452, or by email. See Lynne's Family Therapy page for more information.]
By Lynne Head
 We are born with perfect self esteem.
From birth, circumstances occur which undermine how we value ourselves. The six things which force voids in how we think and feel about ourselves are:
1. Early childhood loss.
2. Caretaker abuse.
3. Caretaker neglect.
4. Caretaker over protectiveness.
5. Caretaker overindulgence.
6. Caretaker drug or alcohol abuse/dependency/addictions.
 We will either fill these voids with Ego (drugs, binge drinking/etoh, food, relationships, materialism, power, control, academia, work, caffeine, nicotine, shopping, gambling, etc.) or we will rediscover our original self value by modifying our beliefs about ourselves.
Please know you are one-of-a-kind, unique, exclusive, no one else is just like you or has experienced your life. Imagine how we might change ourselves by the thoughts we have of ourselves. Start your autobiography today and begin reframing every thought about yourself that does not work in your life.
[Lynne Head is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in marriages, relationships, parenting/co-parenting, and individual therapy. Located in Austin, TX, Lynne can be reached by phone at 512-878-3452 or by email. See her website on the topic of individual therapy for more information.]
By Lynne Head
Becoming your own best friend can be so much harder than it sounds. If you think about it, we are born with perfect self esteem. As tiny babies, all of our needs are automatically met by our parents. Then, as we begin to grow, some of that good healthy self esteem is trained out of us by our caretakers.
There are basically six things which occur during our formative years which cause us to become extremely self critical, and then suddenly we become our worst enemy instead of our best friend. One of the most detrimental occurrences is any type of early childhood loss. These losses can be anything from a death, a divorce, a move, not being invited to another child’s party, being told you should be ashamed of yourself, you’re a bad child, etc.
Working in therapy can begin to eliminate these voids in how we value ourselves. Now may be the time to give yourself the gift of being your own best friend.
[Lynne Head is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in marriages, relationships, parenting/co-parenting, and individual therapy. Located in Austin, TX, Lynne can be reached by phone at 512-878-3452 or by email. See her website on the topic of individual therapy for more information.]
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