by Carl Mothes | Feb 27, 2023 | Mens Therapy BLOG
Some ramblings on Aesthetics vs Practicality Perhaps this is a rather thinly-veiled attempt to justify my obsessiveness versus an actual intellectual consideration, but here goes. Recently, I was tasked with putting up hooks for several bags. When I say bags I mean a...
by Carl Mothes | Jan 27, 2023 | Mens Therapy BLOG
What could possibly be missing from an explanation of all explanations? Isn’t an explanatory model that offers an explanation for anything just great? Well, not really. I’m pretty burned out on the evolutionary biological explanation for every damn trait,...
by Carl Mothes | Nov 22, 2022 | Mens Therapy BLOG
So much of the talk now is about how ‘bad’ distraction is for us. How we need to focus more, be more present, stop and smell the roses because hey, we only go around once right? Well yea that last part is true but distraction is not all that bad. In fact, it’s better...
by Carl Mothes | Oct 11, 2022 | Mens Therapy BLOG
In another blog post I wrote about the need for acceptance to fully understand and express our gratitude. In that post I talked about gratitude with regard to ‘positively-valenced situations in our lives. But what about gratitude over ‘negatively-valenced’ or...
by Carl Mothes | Jul 14, 2022 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
We want answers. More specifically, we want ‘an’ answer. Why am I like this? What keeps me doing/not doing what I want to do and know I should do? Typically when asking these questions to ourselves we just assume there is ‘an’ answer. Perhaps we recognize there may be...