The Healing Power of Positive Self-Talk
There’s one person that we all have to spend 24 hours a day with, 365 days a year (or 366 days if a leap year like 2020) – ourselves. And to be honest, spending all that time together [...]
Thinking Forward
At the turn of a new decade, many Americans continue to seek out innovative ways to enhance their lives and acquire a fresh reset into this next year. Our voices narrate stories about ourselves that are responsible for [...]
Dethroning the Voice of Shame – Part II
Please read Part I here. No longer neglected as part of the human condition and family of experiences, shame is now being termed as the Master Emotion. Truly a juggernaut of personal and interpersonal affects within culture, shame carries [...]
Healing Trauma Memories – The Effects of Trauma (Part II)
Please read Part 1 here. Overcoming negative thoughts and emotions of a trauma narrative are linked to deliberately, repeatedly, and gradually revisiting the painful, upsetting, and oftentimes distressing memories associated with the trauma. A new conceptual framework for [...]
Understanding And Facing Our Emotions
Often when I have new people coming into therapy, their goal is to get rid of their emotions because they make them uncomfortable. When I see clients dealing with anger, grief, anxiety or fear, they often search for [...]
Finding Margin in Our Lives
Do you feel that you are constantly running on empty? That you are constantly running to the one thing after another? Do you find yourself constantly late to things in your life? How about forgetting important dates, or [...]