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MOST OF OUR SUFFERING IS avoidable. Our emotional and behavioral problems can be resolved. We just have to understand how our psyche works. This website is dedicated to teaching vital psychological knowledge.Do you need help to curb drinking or to get off drugs? Are you facing a divorce or a career failure? Are you anxious, depressed, or overwhelmed by life's challenges? Perhaps you're simply unable to get your mind or intelligence into high gear.
I can help. I'm Peter Michaelson, an author and experienced psychotherapist in Plymouth, Michigan. My latest book, Why We Suffer, shows how we can overcome the unconscious programming in our psyche that produces suffering and self-defeat.
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"Whenever you are in a negative state, there is something in you that wants the negativity, that perceives it as pleasurable, or that believes it will get you what you want. Otherwise, who would want to hang on to negativity, make themselves and others miserable, and create disease in the body?" -- Eckhart Tolle, "Oneness With All Life".
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My latest book is titled, Why We Suffer--A Western Way to Understand and Let Go of Unhappiness. It's the amazing story of what mainstream psychology has failed to teach the world. Read the reviews and buy the eBook for $4.99 at www.Amazon.com or www.BN.com.
