If you suffer from anxiety, you know that awful feeling when heart races, you start to sweat, and you feel like you just want to run. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety disorders are the most common form of mental illness in the United States, affecting roughly 40 million adults. While […]
5 Strategies to Calm Your Anxiety Quickly
When you live with an anxiety disorder, any moment can become one that creates a slow-rising panic within you. Life is normal one second and the next, you feel your chest tighten and your heart begin to race. You may begin to hyperfocus on future events and find yourself getting lost in “what-ifs.” To make […]
3 Steps to Self-Compassion
“God, you can be so stupid sometimes.” “Why would he be attracted to YOU?” “You’re just going to screw this up.” These are things you would probably never say to another human being unless you’re a real jerk. But how many of us have that inner critic that says these kinds of things all the […]
4 Subtle Signs of Trauma: When You’re Dealing with More Than You Think
When you think about someone experiencing trauma, incidents such as a violent or sexual assault or a terrible car accident might come to mind. But there are other, subtler forms of trauma that can negatively affect our lives and hinder our relationships. Emotional trauma is often overlooked and minimized, and we may think we’ve “gotten […]
5 Warning Signs It’s Time to Try Couples Counseling
When you first fell in love, you could never imagine that someday the sound of your partner chewing could make you want to scream. It’s inevitable that once we are out of our honeymoon phase and reality sets in, we realize that all relationships take work and compromise. But while some couples may hit bumps […]
Is Telehealth the Future of Therapy?
As a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, many therapists have had to quickly pivot and offer their clients online sessions in an effort to help them to continue to make progress while at the same time abide by the social distancing guidelines to flatten the curve. While it seems our country and the rest of […]
7 Deep Hurts of Narcissistic Abuse
From reading through the FB support groups. I realized that there are several things that hurt so much during narcissistic abuse, that it’s REALLY hard for people to let go of. I know how raw it still is for many people who have been hurt by narcissists, and I know how hard it can feel […]
Forgiveness: The Key Ingredient for Serenity
We’ve all been hurt by another person at some time or another — we were treated badly, trust was broken, hearts were shredded, guts ripped right out and handed to us on a silver platter. And while this pain is normal, sometimes that pain lingers for too long. We relive the pain over and over, […]
Innocence Lost
I wanted to share a poem that I had written as I was going through the process of healing from my own sexual abuse. I hope that those of you who read it can resonate with the harmful effects of abuse. You came into my life and stole my soul So innocent and young no […]
Change Your Script, Change Your Life.
In our minds, we are constantly writing scripts for ourselves and the world in general. These scripts may sound like “I should act this way; people around me should act in this manner; things should be done this way in order to be right; I am not deserving of love”. These scripts are actually the […]
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