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• Melissa and Evan share their past experiences with unspoken agreements in relationships
• Passing off anxieties to partner to resolve insecurities
• Finances are a common reason for divorce
• Unspoken agreements utilized in an attempt to resolve attachment trauma
• Fawning to prevent from abandonment, maladaptive self-preservation
• Mind reading
• We need to deal in realities, not “shoulds”

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• "Christian Counseling" directly opposes the ACA Code of Ethics
• Counselors' political biases creating division with clients
• The new-age drama of "right and wrong think"
• Therapists should not be truth-seekers
• The importance of sitting with clients that have different ideologies
• Melissa shares about her love of Ricky Martin
• Why is the counseling profession becoming a banner flag for social justice and advocacy?
• Approaching a client relationship similarly to visiting a foreign country
• We are entering the client's world, not inviting them to ours

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• Faulty torture tactics in the Iraq war
• Carl Jung's Devouring Mother Archtype
• Barriers when applying boundaries to parents
• Parents of children with addiction feel a sense of closeness in crisis
• Internal conflicts that occur when experiencing incongruence

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