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PsychoanalysisWhat Does Talent Mean?

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • March 18, 2022
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I grew up thinking that if you were talented, learning would be easy.   I carried this mistaken…
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PsychoanalysisA Paradox

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • March 11, 2022
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Do you love a good paradox?   Leaving our home has been so rare the last two years,…
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PsychoanalysisIs This A Coincidence?

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • March 9, 2022
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Is this a coincidence? On Saturday, as you are reading this, I will be meeting Sullivan, my first…
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PsychoanalysisWhere Do You Find the Creative Process?

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • February 25, 2022
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Last Saturday I attended a Creative Day, an online event organized by one of my favorite organizations. The…
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PsychoanalysisAn Origin Story

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • February 18, 2022
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Nowadays, I am a writer, a wife, sister, mother, grandmother, and a great-grandmother, but when the internal desire…
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BodyDoomed Trying To Find Completion

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • February 11, 2022
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Toe stretching isn’t the most thrilling activity even when one is totally focused. Remember when I promised a…
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PsychoanalysisConfronting limitations & imperfections

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • February 4, 2022
  • 719 views
I’m still thinking about endings. This week I am obsessed with going through the twelve chapters of my…
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PsychoanalysisCartoon Unconscious & Conscious Modes

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • January 28, 2022
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Sigmund Freud proposed that our psyche was a tiered structure. Today’s scientists know the unconscious is not a…
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Psychoanalysis2 Tips To Foster Change in 2022

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • January 7, 2022
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The new year is traditionally a time to take stock of one’s life. As part of my inventory…
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PsychoanalysisWhat do you desire?

  • Nicky Mendenhall
  • December 17, 2021
  • 774 views
Until recently, hearing the word desire brought up uncomfortable feelings: I felt having desires was selfish. Let me…
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