How to Enjoy Life More: The Transformative Power of Play in Adulthood
Play is something under-rated in adulthood. We get so focused on productivity that we lose a part of what makes life joyful – play.
General Mental Health
Self-Love and Parts Work: Embracing Every Part of Who You Are
The holiday season can be especially difficult when you’re grieving the loss of a loved one. This blog offers gentle, compassionate guidance on how to navigate the holidays while honoring your feelings and your loved one’s memory. Learn ways to manage grief, find moments of joy, and move forward at your own pace.
How to Let Go of Perfectionism and Feel at Peace Being Yourself
The five love languages has been an impactful tool for many couples – but it can only bring you so far. What happens when needs change in a relationship?
Don’t I need to love myself before I have a healthy relationship?
The holiday season can be especially difficult when you’re grieving the loss of a loved one. This blog offers gentle, compassionate guidance on how to navigate the holidays while honoring your feelings and your loved one’s memory. Learn ways to manage grief, find moments of joy, and move forward at your own pace.
From Numb to Noticing: Reconnecting with Yourself When Life Feels Like a Blur
The holiday season can be especially difficult when you’re grieving the loss of a loved one. This blog offers gentle, compassionate guidance on how to navigate the holidays while honoring your feelings and your loved one’s memory. Learn ways to manage grief, find moments of joy, and move forward at your own pace.
Navigating Grief: How to Manage Losing a Loved One During the Holidays
The holiday season can be especially difficult when you’re grieving the loss of a loved one. This blog offers gentle, compassionate guidance on how to navigate the holidays while honoring your feelings and your loved one’s memory. Learn ways to manage grief, find moments of joy, and move forward at your own pace.
Overwhelmed, Overloaded and Tapped Out
Feeling overwhelmed, overloaded, or completely tapped out is more common than you might think, but it doesn’t have to be your norm. This blog explores how your nervous system reacts in moments of stress using the Polyvagal Ladder framework. Learn to recognize signs of dorsal vagal shutdown, sympathetic fight-or-flight activation, and how to gently guide yourself back to a state of calm and connection (ventral vagal). With practical tools and relatable examples, this post provides simple strategies to help you move through stress and create more moments of balance and self-compassion in your daily life.
Anna Kraft, LPC Get to Know Me
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When the negative thoughts are too loud.
When your negative thoughts get too loud, acknowledging them instead of avoiding them may actually be the way through.
How You Experience Your Body Impacts How You Experience Life
How you experience your body impacts your quality of life. Learn more here on what type of body image you may be struggling with and how therapy can help!
Hoarding: Finding the Door To Healing
Millions struggle with significant hoarding problems. You aren’t alone, your family member isn’t lazy or irresponsible. It is usually the opposite – stemming from perfectionism, or feeling too much responsibility that leads to feeling like you can’t let anything go.
Therapy Doesn’t Work for Me
What makes therapy work is the relationship you have with your therapist and finding the right method for you.
