90 Day Challenge: “Fears are stories we tell ourselves.” If you’re human – you have felt fear. The fear of being alone, the fear of losing your job, the fear of failure, the fear of sickness, the fear of uncertainty, the fear of not being good enough. Our fears are stories we tell ourselves – […]
Greetings from Dallas, Texas. My name is R. Scott Gornto and I am a therapist, speaker and author of my upcoming book, The Story We Tell Ourselves. I want to thank Elizabeth Oates for tagging me in the blog tour. I have know Elizabeth for years now. We co-lead a divorce care group for adolescents […]
90 Day Challenge – Day 7 – We tell ourselves stories to make sense out of the world around us. These inner dramas can be more appealing and compelling than the real world, and we can lose the capability to genuinely listen to and engage the actual people in our lives. The solution is to cultivate […]
A great thing to remember about love and partnerships. Author Brene Brown also calls it “passionate listening.” We work to focus on what the other person is really saying to us, validating their words, and expressing empathy. We don’t just formulate our own response or reaction while the other person is talking. We can change […]
We often create inner dramas to make sense of the world around us. When we don’t understand another person’s thoughts or motives, we construct narratives to explain their actions, and they become characters in movies we direct and play in our own minds. My new book, “The Stories We Tell Ourselves,” will be a tool […]
We have a choice every day, perhaps every moment, to care about the process our souls must go through – the journey that gets us from where we are to where we are going. Often the only way through pain is look within, continue bravely and openly, and discover that self-awareness can bring freedom and […]
Dr. R. Scott Gornto, PHD, MDIV, LMFT, EMDR holds a PhD in Psychotherapy, Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy and is a trained psychotherapist, counselor and peak performance coach. He is a Licensed Psychotherapist (Individual, Marriage and Family in Texas and Arizona), a EMDR Trained Trauma Therapist and has extensive training in the behavioral sciences and personal development. Dr. Scott is in private practice and has been practicing in North Texas since 1999. He works with individuals, couples, adolescents (12 yrs old and up), families, groups, entrepreneurs/leaders and businesses from Plano, Frisco, McKinney, Allen, Prosper and Dallas and the surrounding areas. Dr. Scott is the author of The Stories We Tell Ourselves™ and is a columnist for the Huffington Post and Psychology Today.