Become A Connoisseur Of Your Experience
Our lives unfold in the present moment, however, our minds naturally tend to ruminate about the past, anticipate the future, or daydream about the other lives we could be leading. These are completely normal patterns of thinking and useful in certain contexts - learning from mistakes, troubleshooting solutions, setting goals, [...]
How Can I Calm My Teen’s Anxiety if I Can’t Even Calm My Own?
How can I calm my teen’s anxiety if I can’t even calm my own? Let’s face it, kids are tough. Being a parent is hard. Rewarding, but hard. So, what happens when your child experiences a bit of anxiety that you are all too familiar with? You try your [...]
How to Find a Therapist That’s Right For You
How to find a therapist that’s right for you. Whether you’re new to therapy or ready for a change in therapists, your relationship with your provider is one of the most important factors for successful therapy outcomes. You should feel safe, secure, and connected with your therapist. Just like [...]
Why IFS Might be Right for You
What is IFS? Internal Family Systems, or IFS, is a form of therapy that has been around since the 80s that is flexible, client-centered, and evidence based. IFS says that every one of us is made up of parts – multiple parts is normal – and those parts are interacting [...]
How to Make Friends As Adults
How do we make friends as adults? Therapy work to do around making friendships Explore hesitancies, expectations, past experiences, social skills, etc. in order to feel better about putting self out there “You have to be willing to initiate more than other people, make really specific plans, follow through, then [...]
Natural Mentoring Relationships: The Mediating Impact on Negative Behaviors During Adolescence
Natural Mentoring Relationships: The Mediating Impact on Negative Behaviors During Adolescence As of 2017, researchers in the United States have found that about half of all children in the country will be exposed to some form of childhood adversity (McLaughlin, 2017). This has increased since 1995 from a quarter of [...]
Loving on Yoga Nidra
This blog post would read differently if I were a yoga instructor. As a therapist, I’m here to tout the wonder of yoga nidra when you can’t sleep. True insomnia is rare for me, but I definitely have times when my brain is on anxious overdrive and sleep is elusive. [...]
Understanding EMDR (article from New York Times)
What is EMDR Therapy? Read this new article from New York Times to help you understand a bit more! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/well/emdr-therapy.html
Clinical Hypnosis & Pain Management
Clinical Hypnosis & Pain Management Miracle or Malarkey? You might think hypnosis sounds like bullshit. For two reasons, clinical hypnosis works well for chronic pain management: body relaxation and true cognitive redirection. First, hypnosis only happens once a client has entered a state of relative calm or relaxation. Anything we [...]
Prepping for the “Real” World: Tools for Emerging Young Adults
There are few times in life more exciting than preparing for the transition from being a child into living as part of the “real” adult world. This transitional period can also be very challenging. All the change, new financial stressors, going to school, finding a job, starting a family. There [...]
7 powerful strategies to help your teenager with productive struggle in high school
With the slower days of summer, also comes my tradition of finding the weirdest puzzle I can and setting it up in the living room to give a little distraction from screen time. It’s disgustingly hot in Georgia right now, so I am not surprised that my kids don’t want [...]
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
I’m more than halfway through my second read of Lost Connections by Johann Hari. This is an engagingly written book about why so many of us are anxious and/or depressed. Johann (he uses first names as he shares about each of the researchers he talked to, which inspires me to [...]
Summertime Boredom: Staying Away From Your Phone In Your Free Time
Summer Break AKA Unlimited Phone Time For many people, when the summer time comes round it feels like the one time of year where they have unlimited time for their hobbies or activities. The sun is out longer, people are spending time talking to one another and you don’t want [...]
Getting to know Internal Family Systems (IFS) through the lens of a chocolate covered almond
I have a part that likes to eat. I mean, it likes to eat – to excess – chocolate covered anything, sweeeeet treats, and anything that would have been forbidden or restricted in my childhood. This part revels in the fact that I’m now an adult with resources who can [...]
The Power of Online Trauma Therapy
The Power of Online Trauma Therapy Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a result of having experienced acute, chronic, or complex trauma. Let's dive in and deepen our understanding of trauma before we discuss therapy. Common Sources of Trauma Birth trauma Bullying Community violence Physical and emotional abuse [...]
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