Five Ways to Manage Guilt and Shame
Like thieves in the night – plotting to steal your joy, these two emotions hold hands like depression and anxiety and often show up to sabotage your progress. Like depression and anxiety …
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Motivated by Pain, Pleasure or Sheer Will
Why is it so hard for people to make changes in their lives? Not just to success by reaching a goal, but to even just start change. Most people don’t come …
Holiday Triggers Can Cause Relationship Damage
A year ago on this American Thanksgiving my family and I faced an intentional act of evil from someone close to us that makes this a bit of a “traumaversary.” Consciously …
I See You. Creating Authentic Relationships
Finding people you can resonate with. Being seen. That someone gets you and knows you accurately. This is what we’re all seeking. And because it’s so rare, we often settle for …
A Better Treatment Approach to Treating Depression and Anxiety
I am not anti-medication for psychiatric conditions, but I am an advocate for many proven individual and combination non-prescription drug based therapies for treating these conditions. I also believe that there …
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10 Things To Help You Get Through Difficult Times
Life is not always easy. It was never meant to be. Challenges stimulate growth and increase resilience. But sometimes our lives can feel like one struggle after another with no breaks …
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Stop trying to please everyone. Some people just hate peaches.
“You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches.” We can work on being the best versions of ourselves …
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Modelling Healthy Relationships. Who's watching?
I often talk about how we are in relationships with others and that’s really a generic term to refer to all connections with other people but today I’m talking about romantic …
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Stop Walking on Eggshells and Use Your Voice
A common communication habit that we get into is walking on eggshells. This sense that we have to hold back or suppress what we want to say because we worry about …
Resiliency. Being Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable.
Resiliency. In the simplest of terms, it is the ability to experience all ranges of positive and negative experiences and emotional states and being able to not just tolerate those states …
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