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So far Amy Robbins has created 36 blog entries.

How to Cope with Being Gender Fluid in a Society that Doesn’t Understand

How to Cope with Being Gender Fluid in a Society that Doesn’t Understand Living as a gender fluid person means that you have to embrace yourself as someone who is never going to fit into one of the traditional gender boxes that society has laid out for you. This may feel freeing [...]

By |2025-07-15T20:35:19+00:00July 15th, 2025|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Five Simple Tools to Regulate Your Emotions

Five Simple Tools to Regulate Your Emotions Even though emotions are a normal part of being a human, at times, they can feel overwhelming. Emotions like sadness, anxiety, anger, or even excitement can feel too intense at times. When you’re set up with the right tools for success, you can work towards [...]

By |2025-07-15T20:31:38+00:00July 15th, 2025|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Dealing with Stress Over Women’s Battle for Reproductive Rights

Dealing with Stress Over Women’s Battle for Reproductive Rights The fight for women’s reproductive rights has been a constant topic of conversation over the years. Recently, it’s become more prevalent, urgent, and for many, deeply personal. The news, debates, social media posts, and constant setbacks can feel overwhelming for everyone. No matter [...]

By |2025-06-27T20:05:26+00:00June 27th, 2025|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Prioritizing Your Mental Health Before the Election

Prioritizing Your Mental Health Before the Election As election season approaches, it’s hard to ignore the flood of news, opinions, debates, and discussions that surround us. The intensity of a national election can bring out strong emotions, from hope and excitement to anxiety and frustration. At Amy Robbins Counseling, we understand how [...]

By |2024-10-08T15:28:42+00:00October 8th, 2024|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Turning Towards Our Pain

Jon Kabat-Zinn described healing as “coming to terms with things as they are”. Acceptance could be defined as the ability to open up to our experiences - our thoughts, feelings, emotions, urges, sensations, memories. Whether they are pleasurable or painful - we acknowledge them, make space for them, sit with them, let [...]

By |2024-06-19T21:45:53+00:00July 1st, 2024|Uncategorized|0 Comments

How Trauma Can Affect Our Relationships As Adults

How Trauma Can Affect Our Relationships As Adults Trauma suffered in childhood can have a tremendous impact on a client’s ability to engage in healthy adult relationships. Terry Real, MSW, LICSW describes three parts of the psyche to help client’s understand the aftereffects of trauma and to help them relate to others [...]

By |2024-06-13T17:10:46+00:00June 22nd, 2024|Uncategorized|0 Comments

5 Winning and 5 Losing Strategies for Couples Communication- from Relational Life Therapy with Terry Real

5 Winning Strategies for Your Relationship from Relational Life Therapy with Terry Real   Shift from Complaint to Request  a) Learn how to speak and ask for what you want  b) Make your requests specific, behavioral & reasonable.   C) “what I need is…..”; “what i would like is….”   Speak to Repair [...]

By |2024-06-10T18:59:49+00:00June 17th, 2024|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Navigating Post-Pandemic Social Anxiety, Agoraphobia, and Claustrophobia: A Journey of Healing

As the world cautiously emerges from the grips of the pandemic, many individuals find themselves grappling with a new set of emotions and challenges. While some eagerly embrace the return to pre-pandemic activities, others face a resurgence of social anxiety, agoraphobia, and claustrophobia, triggered by the abrupt shift in lifestyle and heightened [...]

By |2024-06-10T12:06:09+00:00June 10th, 2024|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Body Respect: Moving Away from Self-Objectification

In recent years, the concept of body positivity has gained significant traction in promoting self-love and acceptance. Encouraging individuals to embrace their bodies in all shapes and sizes, it sparked crucial conversations about beauty standards and self-esteem. However, amidst the fervor for body positivity, another approach quietly emerged, informed by intuitive eating: [...]

By |2024-05-03T21:39:55+00:00May 3rd, 2024|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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