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
Self-Compassion Heals Everything
I read Greater Good Magazine online, a publication by University of California, Berkley that “studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society,” to quote their...
read moreLet’s Help Chuck Todd Recover from His Abusive Relationship
Poor Chuck Todd! He’s just coming to realize something some of us realized years ago. He, and most other journalists, have been involved in an abusive relationship with Donald J. Trump and the Trump Party. Todd, a powerful decision-maker in political...
read moreHow to Spot a Narcissist: Vague Language and Lots of It
Narcissists also may try to bury their lack of knowledge or poor behavior in an avalanche of words, and this is what our current president does every day. Read any part of this bizarre transcript of a press event President Donald Trump held with Italian president Sergio Mattarella and your head will start spinning.
read moreAnnouncing: Workshop on How to Develop Self-Compassion
Stop repeating anxiety-provoking habits of negative thinking and self-criticism! Learn how your mind and body can be harnessed to provide self-soothing. Develop meditation and mindfulness skills to be calm and manage your emotions and thoughts in healthy ways.
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