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Frequently Asked Questions About Complex PTSD

November 22, 2024 by Jason Saffer

Note from the Center for Creative Growth: Pete Walker’s work, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving, picks up where John Bradshaw’s work left off, both deepening and expanding John’s work in healing the inner child and repairing our traumatized relationship with our core self. Incorporating Pete’s work has helped us empower people to learn to love, protect, […]

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To Forgive Or Not to Forgive: That Is the Question

September 12, 2022 by Jason Saffer

by Linda E. Katz, Ph.D., MFT Much has been written on the topic of forgiveness. From psychologists to spiritual figures, people have offered a range of opinions about the ultimate question connected to the concept of forgiveness: are there some things which cannot — or should not — be forgiven? There are those who believe […]

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The 12-Step Recovery Movement Comes of Age: Dealing with the Backlash to Recovery

November 10, 2017 by Jason Saffer

by Jason Saffer, M.A., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist We are beginning to witness a mounting backlash against the recovery movement in general and recovery-oriented psychotherapy in particular. In response to a heightened awareness that absent, shaming, neglectful, abusive, or overcontrolling parents have created a nation of dysfunctional people with suffering self-esteem, detractors are having […]

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The Magic of Group Therapy – by Daniel Lesny, MFT

November 10, 2017 by Jason Saffer

  Eyes cast down, she walked into the group room and sat in her usual chair. Touching her shoulder and wincing with pain, Emma listened as others in the group spoke. Although clearly distressed by the amount of pain she was still enduring from her recent surgery, she sat there suffering in silence. I asked […]

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What Is “Creative Growth?”

October 15, 2017 by Jason Saffer

  by Jason Saffer, MA, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist On our website, we talk about one of our core beliefs — “that every situation, every experience — no matter how difficult, painful, or “stuck” it may be — holds within it the opportunity for creative growth.” What exactly does that mean? What do we […]

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Toxic Shame – A Root Cause of Conflict and Misery

October 15, 2017 by Jason Saffer

by Jason Saffer, M.A., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist As we have progressed through the early stages of the 21st century, it has become increasingly clear that a basic root cause of human misery, violence, despair, and conflict is the widespread experience and perpetuation of toxic shame. Underlying almost all instances and episodes of human […]

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What’s the Best Kind of Therapy for You?

October 15, 2017 by Jason Saffer

  by Jason Saffer, M.A., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist In a recent two-part interview, “Finding a Therapist” and “What’s the Best Kind of Therapy for You?”, Marcia Perlstein offered her views on what to look for in a therapist and how to assess the type of therapy one is getting. Like Marcia, I, too, […]

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John Bradshaw: A Teacher for Our Times

October 14, 2017 by Jason Saffer

  by Jason Saffer, M.A., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist It’s been over thirty years, but I still remember the pain of junior high school. That’s when schooling and education began to go bad. That’s when the joy of learning began to get tainted, overlaid by a new imperative: evaluation, testing, “making the grade.” School […]

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The Journey of the Wounded Child Within – by Teresa Kaplan, MFT

October 14, 2017 by Jason Saffer

  Note: The following article was originally written by Teresa Kaplan as part of her Master’s-level graduate work in psychology. It is a moving blend of valuable information about what inner child therapy is — and how it is conducted with therapy clients — interwoven with her heartfelt account of her own personal journey of […]

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Recent Blog Posts

  • Frequently Asked Questions About Complex PTSD
  • To Forgive Or Not to Forgive: That Is the Question
  • The 12-Step Recovery Movement Comes of Age: Dealing with the Backlash to Recovery
  • The Magic of Group Therapy – by Daniel Lesny, MFT
  • What Is “Creative Growth?”
  • Toxic Shame – A Root Cause of Conflict and Misery
  • What’s the Best Kind of Therapy for You?
  • John Bradshaw: A Teacher for Our Times
  • The Journey of the Wounded Child Within – by Teresa Kaplan, MFT

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