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Why Do We Run Away?

August 23, 2021 // Growth

If you cashed out, where would you go?
Maybe the only hope we have to stop our towns and wild places from changing is to change our belief that their destruction is inevitable.  But, as Timothy Tate writes, it's almost impossible to do
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In The Winter Of Life, Dreams Prepare Us For What May Come

March 14, 2019

Thomas Cole's "The Voyage of Life—Old Age"
Getting old need not be a season of dread. As Timothy Tate says, it can be an opportunity to embrace who we are
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The War Veteran Who Had A Dream—In Which He Was Visited By A Midget

February 21, 2019

A soldier copes with a bad dream
By courting the images that come to us during sleep and drawing upon their messages, our dreams within can help us achieve more meaningful, peaceful outer lives
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Conversations At The Holiday Table

December 10, 2018

The Savage Family - by  Edward Savage
Timothy Tate, MoJo's go-to psychotherapist, explores the stories we tell about ourselves
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Every Mountain Town Has Local Versions of Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford

November 4, 2018

Christine Blasey Ford
When we talk of justice, Timothy Tate the psychotherapist wonders about the message sent to American daughters
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Feeling Low? Even In Mountain Towns You Can't Escape The Blues

August 26, 2018 // Mental Health

Are you feeling stressed in these times?
Timothy Tate, MoJo columnist and mental health professional, identifies the top five reasons why people seek his help
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Letting Go Of My Big Sister

June 22, 2018 // Family

Timothy and Beth
Aging in America sucks, says Timothy Tate, but it doesn't have to be this way
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Bench Marks: The People And Places Lifting Us Up When We Are Down

February 13, 2018

Peets Hill, Bozeman, Montana
Psychotherapist Timothy Tate: It's tough work fighting to save the communities we love and finding ways to avert the trail of despair
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Of Dads And Mountain Daughters

January 30, 2018

Daughter Abbey on a trip home
A foundational relationship in a woman’s life, its impacts lasting a lifetime
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When Peter Pan Enters Middle Age

November 21, 2017

So full of vim and vigor in their youth, men in many mountain towns live lives based on athletic achievement, independence and focus on self—and then middle age delivers a crushing blow of reality
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Chasing Summits And Running Toward The Sun

October 31, 2017

The path into wild can lead us to ourselves and, in turn, knowing who we are helps us to better appreciate wild places, Timothy Tate says.
One week after Timothy Tate wrote provocatively about tragedy in the mountains, the MoJo columnist pens another on humility—and the ethic of using, but not using up, the places that personally inspire 
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A Tragedy In The Mountains Highlights Pain Facing The Young

October 16, 2017

The Madison Mountains, photo courtesy Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center, B. Vandenbos
In mountain towns like Bozeman and Jackson Hole, extreme athletes are modern heroes.  When something bad happens, it should cause all of us to hold our kids closer
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Touching Meaning In A Small-Town Funeral Procession

October 1, 2017

Photo by Timothy Tate
Bozeman, Montana Psychotherapist Timothy Tate Riffs On The Struggles Of Finding Purpose While Living Beneath The Big Western Sky
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Even In Paradise, Everyone Needs To Heal Something, Especially The Seemingly Invincible

August 23, 2017

Mountain towns cast their own shadows. Photo by Todd Wilkinson
Confronting the myth of perfection, columnist Timothy Tate, a practicing psychotherapist in Bozeman, writes about "distress" accompanying radical changes in mountain communities
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