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How to Understand Your Child: 4 Steps
OPENing up includes four steps and can bring more compassion and understanding to your and your child’s lives.
Cultivating Softies: On Men, Shrill and Botany
Too often people do not use the tool of therapy or ask for help because they think their problems are not big enough.
Save Yourself: Mothers, Trauma and Denial
But there’s something about mothering, or women in general we need to address as a culture.
And that is that mothering is not martyrdom.
Lean the **** Out
I am so tired of hustle culture. I am so tired of telling women to lean in. I am so tired of women making it seem like you can really have it all. Because you cannot.
Why We Should All Be Dancing
Dancing can feel daunting, scary, or maybe even embarrassing. But listen here, my dear reader, I’m encouraging you to dance anyways...even if you don’t have a rhythmic bone in your body.
Guilt Is Not An Emotion
Many of you will find that it’s natural tendencies/conditioned habits to want to make others happy, to avoid conflict and not have to feel the dreaded guilt.
What if I told you that guilt is not an emotion, but rather, guilt is a story.
Nature and Our Mental Health
I can’t even tell you how many times during the past year I have uttered the statement, “I’m pretty sure going outside has been the only thing that’s kept me sane,” and I mean that with every fiber of my being.
How to (and not to) Speak to a Pregnant Woman
This is about the stage in pregnancy when I realized just how clueless people were when it came to interacting with a pregnant woman.
Attachment Styles: Secure Sally, Dismissive Dan, Anxious Annie + Fearful Frank
This type of framework, otherwise known as “attachment”, describes a psychological connectedness that begins during infancy and continues to build over time, eventually defining how we relate to friends, family members and even strangers.
Breaking the Cycle of Stress
Stress happens. It’s inevitable. But how we respond to stress? That’s a whole other story.
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.