About Harper West, Psychotherapist
Harper West is a licensed psychotherapist and expert in improving relationships with yourself and others through self-acceptance. She is an expert in recovery from relationships with narcissistic or abusive partners or parents. Providing relationship therapy using Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and attachment-focused child and family therapy. Trained in both Mindful Self-Compassion and Compassion-Focused Therapy.
Harper West is a contributing author of #1 Amazon and #4 New York Times bestselling “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” and award-winning “Pack Leader Psychology.”
Peter Mayer’s song Japanese Bowl (on YouTube) explains this philosophy beautifully.
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The ability to handle shame, imperfection and failure
with equanimity
is self-actualization and enlightenment.
The Power of Self-Acceptance
Do you want to feel more calm, contented and fulfilled? Be truly self-confident? Learn how achieving self-acceptance permanently frees the mind from low self-worth and self-blaming thoughts that lie at the heart of many experiences with anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and other struggles.
Improve Your Relationships
What emotion is most harmful to relationships? The answer may surprise you. Read a real life example of a rocky marriage and learn the root cause of most relationship difficulties, including high-conflict marriages and family relationships, domestic violence, abusive parenting, substance abuse and more.
An Outraged Psychologist Speaks Out
Why are normal human reactions — fear, shame, self-criticism — incorrectly labeled as “mental disorders?” The “disease” model promoted by pharmaceutical manufacturers and our mental health system discourages people from seeking therapy that can lead to solutions to anxiety, depression and more.
Recent Posts
Mindful Self-Compassion Workshop Starts January 2019
Why not give yourself the gift of self-compassion? Join me in Clarkston, Michigan, for an 8-week Mindful Self-Compassion Workshop, beginning Sunday, January 6, 2-4 pm. Learn to dial down your "inner critic," practice meditations that build compassion for yourself and...
read moreTrump’s Fearful World View is the Biggest Danger
Many were shocked when in a CBS News interview on July 14 President Donald Trump stated: “Well, I think we have a lot of foes. I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us in trade.” This is one of innumerable outright lies and diplomatic disasters by...
read moreWe Can’t Wait for “A Sign” that Trump is Unraveling
With the tsunami of evidence of Donald Trump’s dangerous mental instability crashing daily into my news feed, my frustration at the lack of action by members of Congress and the Cabinet mounts to a level of high urgency. Those who dismiss or downplay Trump’s cruelty,...
read moreDonald’s Dangerous Doubling Down
In blackjack, doubling down means a player doubles their original bet when the remaining deck is offering extremely favorable odds of making a total of twenty-one. According to UrbanDictionary.com,"The term is increasingly used as a media euphemism when political...
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