As I walked along a city street today, I was struck by the word “therapy” appearing atop two posters.<\/p>\n
The headline on the first poster gleefully promoted “Heart Therapy”.\u00a0 It was an advertisement for a juice beverage.<\/p>\n
The headline on the second poster, located a half block away, proudly promoted “Couples Therapy”.\u00a0 It was an advertisement for a new two-for-one deal at a fast food restaurant.<\/p>\n
I see these commercial advertisements as part of a larger paradigm shift that’s popularizing therapy, making it more socially acceptable and, thus, dissolving social stigma that has inhibited so many from getting needed and beneficial professional help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As I walked along a city street today, I was struck by the word “therapy” appearing atop two posters. The headline on the first poster gleefully promoted “Heart Therapy”.\u00a0 It was an advertisement for a juice beverage. The headline on the second poster, located a half block away, proudly promoted “Couples Therapy”.\u00a0 It was an\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,19,17],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marketing","tag-stigma","tag-therapy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}