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Mental Health is #OnTrend
These days we are consuming so much information that our own inner wisdom can get suffocated. We look to influencers, the media, online quizzes, podcasts and yes, even therapists, to tell us what to think, eat, how to move, who to date and what career to have.
Art is a Biological Need, Not a Luxury
Before you reflect on what you tell yourself about art, try to enter a non-valuing mindset, meaning, setting the intention to simply observe something without putting a value of “good/bad”, “right/wrong”, “should/shouldn’t” on it.
A Brief History of Women’s Mental Health Care
Throughout history, women’s mental health has taken a bad rap.
Misconceptions of Mood Disorders
Mood disorders are characterized by a chronic change in mood that disrupts our day-to day functioning.
How to Talk To Kids About Hard Things
In order to have uncomfortable and difficult talks about hard things in the world requires a level of safety in the home. Kids are going to have questions and they have to have permission to be vulnerable and get curious without shame or judgment.
Coping with Covid Re-Entry
There has been a clear theme this week with clients: the feelings that come along with re-entering the world as Covid lessens. We’ve talked boundaries, body image, anxiety and pacing. I’m sharing all of it below.
Lessons From a Year in a Pandemic
What a different world!
I also think we’ve all learned a lot. Here are the top things I have learned that I hope either resonate with you or can help you, too.
Empty Nest Syndrome: Parenting Emerging Adults
As I contemplate these coming changes to my life, I recognize there are two parts. The first is how parenting young adults differs from parenting children and teens.
Somatic Awareness: From Twitching Tongue to Peace of Mind
I immediately began doing research on somatic psychotherapy interventions. Intended for trauma relief, somatic therapies were created in an effort to support individuals struggling with dysfunctional lifestyles, flashbacks, intimacy issues and emotional difficulties.
The Story of Grief: On Death, Trauma and Tragedy
Death is complicated and grief is so personal. I really hate it when people say, “I cannot imagine…” because it’s not that you cannot imagine, it’s just that you don’t want to.
Free Yourself from Diet Culture, Live Your Life
Much of therapy and the healing process includes addressing and challenging limiting beliefs and narratives that we have created about ourselves over the course of our lifetime
Postpartum Anxiety and Depression Warning Signs
1 in 5-7 women will experience a mood or anxiety disorder either during pregnancy or after birth.
Coping with Late-Term Pregnancy Loss/Stillbirth
Late-term pregnancy loss (stillbirth) can be a deeply traumatic experience. It’s made even more challenging when it’s met with silence – when we don’t talk about it.
The Most Radical Thing: Learn to love yourself
Practicing self-love in a world that makes it really, really hard to love yourself exactly as you are is a tough journey. I feel it.
Radical Acceptance
No life is free of problems. Though we may think there are people who never seem to face a tough situation, they do.
8 Mental Health Survival Tips for the 4th Trimester
Your mental health can take a hit after you’ve had a baby even if you don’t experience postpartum anxiety or depression.
Lessons Learned From Impact
When you have something shocking, like getting hit by a car, from behind, while walking back to the office after getting a cappuccino on a sunny day, you HAVE to pause. So, in this week’s newsletter I’m sharing a bit of what has been mulling around in my mind since the accident.
Should I still do New Year Resolutions during a pandemic?
Your entire wellbeing being hung on the notion that if you could only lose weight, be more fit and look more like the current ideal, you would finally have the experience of immense ease, joy, spaciousness, and happiness.
Love's Inherent Pain
I do not think I knew the depths of pain until I had children. Not the pain of labor, nursing or pulling my earrings. But the pain of love.
When Mindfulness Is Used to Harm
Our current societal mold tells us: You are never enough and always too much