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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 conveying the sincere complexity of choice. Each day presents itself with both enduring opportunity and impacting emotionality in relation to the behavioral economics of decision science, a growing research field in [...]
One Day Daring Greatly Workshop for Women
One Day Daring GreatlyTM Workshop for Women IN 2020, ARE YOU LOOKING TO… Show up as your authentic self in your personal and/or professional spaces? Lean into courage and be more vulnerable with others to form deeper connections? Confront shame that is holding you back from reaching your goals? Be more compassionate with yourself and others? If any of those sound like challenges you hope to confront in 2020, [...]
The Most Wonderful Counselor
The best counselors I know are ones that have been through difficulties of their own and can empathize with their clients. In fact, one of the key characteristics I look for in therapists as I am interviewing is brokenness. I ask each candidate, “tell me a time in your life you were broken and what did you learn from it?” No one wants to see a counselor that has [...]
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 within itself a powerful internal phenomenon of humiliation, anger, abandonment, remorse, and rejection. Shame is now transitioning from being formerly ignored, repressed, and overlooked to having a global platform of prominence [...]
It’s Better to Give Than to Receive
Christmas time is fast approaching. The lights are up, the stockings are hung and the tree is decorated. The Christmas season is one of giving and receiving gifts with family and friends. However, I believe that the best gift that you can get is one that does not directly benefit you. Years ago, my mother came up with a new tradition for our family. For Christmas, everyone was asked [...]
Understanding Emotional Privilege
What comes to mind when you hear the word privilege? When most people think of the word, they might think of socioeconomic status or race, but what about emotional privilege, family privilege, or neurological privilege? The Invisible Handicap Mental health is often an invisible handicap. It can be easy to see people who struggle with depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety and other disorders and not immediately think there is anything [...]