How to Talk About Difficult Things Without Alienating Your Family Published: August 3, 2025 | Having tough conversations is never easy. But when those tough conversations involve family members, it can be easy for the conversation to turn a bit more emotional. Discussing tough topics with family can feel like preparing for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WHERE DOES THE GRIEF GO? BY WENDY THOMAS MA You may be familiar with the old adage of, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” The same could be said to those that question why someone hasn’t moved on from a loss in their life. In [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
