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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!
When Did I Lose My Authenticity?
Authenticity is a big buzz right now, so many resources to be your "authentic self." But if you don't know where you lost it - how can you find it?
Finding Your Breath Amidst the Chaos
Finding your breath in times of stress helps your mind and body reset. Mindful breathing is one of the first skills I like to introduce to my clients since no matter where you are or what you’re doing, you have your breath.
How Art Therapy Can Help You Process Your Fears and Worries
If you find it difficult to control your worry, you aren’t alone – and it sounds like anxiety might be running your life. Art Therapy is a creative tool to support you in coping with and moving through anxiety.
Anxiety in Children – Does My Child Need Therapy?
Anxiety in children can look a little different than in adults and has some developmental impacts. Chances are you are a parent reading this wondering how to help your child, we are here to support you.
Avoiding Anxiety – Is That Why You’re Anxious?
Anxiety is a survival skill. It tells us there is danger near, kicks on our fight-or-flight, and gets us ready for action. Having anxiety is a good thing when it’s appropriate for our survival instincts to kick in. However, avoiding anxiety usually leads us to create more anxiety.
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.
Art Therapy, a Different Way for You To Heal
Art Therapy is a non-traditional way to start healing and processing what you couldn’t before. You don’t need to be an artist or have any innate creativity. Art Therapy will open your mind up to all of this and help you manage your daily struggles on top of it.
2023 New Year’s Resolution – Ditch the Resolution
Without understanding what is underneath them, a New Year's Resolution can hold us back from growth.
Coping with the Holidays
Sometimes coping with the holidays includes managing stressful family dynamics, the loss of a loved one, pressure with the end of the year, finances, job stress, illness, your relationship with food, or maybe traditions changing. The first step is to acknowledge where you are at this season.
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.
How To Calm Down Quickly
There are many ways to support yourself in calming down. The one that is most commonly used, is also the one that keeps us stuck in feeling dysregulated. If you are trying to calm down by telling yourself to calm down, it isn’t going to work…
On Healing Through Grief and Loss
Grief can hit us like a ton of bricks. Any kind of loss is difficult and takes time and energy to move through. Grief weighs heavy, but you aren’t alone.
Using Anxiety as a Superpower
What if you could use your anxiety to help you? There are many ways that anxiety is a superpower and helps us expand. It helps us foresee danger, gives us cues that something might be wrong, and challenges our impulses when they need to be.
Managing Change & Becoming More Flexible
Most of us struggle with change - here are 8 keys to help you manage change and become more flexible without being overwhelmed.
What Season Are You In? – Allowing Rest
We all need seasons of rest – life requires it of us. It doesn’t have to be a huge loss or trauma that precipitates this. Sometimes your body simply says enough is enough. I cannot do it anymore. I need to slow down…
Slowing Down When Overwhelmed
We all get overwhelmed, STOP is a simple skill to help you stay aligned with your values and not act impulsively.
Achievable Self-Care for Moms
All the stressors of motherhood, plus a lack of time for self-care often cause parental burnout (emotional and physical exhaustion), which can lead to distancing from our children, reduced feelings of parental accomplishment, as well as sleep problems and partner conflict.
How Can I Be More Authentic?
Being authentic seems like it should be easy. We aren’t taught how to be ourselves. We are taught how to be what other people need. So we adapt and become like chameleons.
How Can I Be More Positive?
The more evidence we provide ourselves that pleasant or neutral events are occurring, the more likely we are to combat narratives like the “bad day.” As you work to implement this exercise, be cautious of the difference between embodying pleasant experiences vs toxic positivity.