All hands on deck! Get your support plan in now before being with family. So there’s a lot about this because 1. Not everyone has the family they’d want and 2. Not everyone celebrates the holidays others in their country celebrates. As a therapist I so often get asked if business is bombing during theContinue reading “Family Support During the Holidays”
Tag Archives: Feelings
Our Last Season!
This is just a quick note to let you know we just released our FIRST EPISODE to our last season. Dr. Dowtin had the great idea to start a beautiful podcast called Breaking The Couch about a year ago. We gave listeners a behind the scenes glimpse at what therapists, or at least us asContinue reading “Our Last Season!”
Favorite Meditations
I thought I’d take a minute to share my favorite meditations this week! I know patients are often open to my meditation recommendations when I suggest starting with guided meditations. When I began taking a moment to tune in, or meditating, I started with guided meditation. Back then my therapist felt it wouldn’t help forContinue reading “Favorite Meditations”
Holding Emotions Gently
I’ve been thinking about something I saw on a walk a couple of weeks ago. It was my birthday so I went for a walk near a place people picnic, ride bikes and gather. There were a couple of families who reacted to an accident that made me think for weeks now. I saw aContinue reading “Holding Emotions Gently”
Roe v. Wade Overturned: Address Grief Over Decimation of Bodily Autonomy
I was just checking in with folks about what they might want support around and the issue of Roe v. Wade being overturned is coming to mind and hearts for so many people. Patients in sessions are having to process what it’s like to have their or their loved one’s bodily autonomy reduced. I knowContinue reading “Roe v. Wade Overturned: Address Grief Over Decimation of Bodily Autonomy”
Are you Where you Wanted to be?
Dear Soft Hearts, Several people talk with me about not being where they wanted to be yet. I don’t want to invalidate that loss. Perhaps you wanted to parent a child by now. Perhaps you didn’t imagine the world’s climate as it is. Or maybe you figured you’d feel less weighed by trauma triggers afterContinue reading “Are you Where you Wanted to be?”
Reactivity!
Dear Soft Hearted Loves, I use to walk in the world wondering why the little things bothered me. I wondered why someone wishing me a happy holiday for a holiday I won’t be celebrating made me feel different or why a wondering eye hurt more than it hurt my friends. I wondered how I canContinue reading “Reactivity!”
Four Tools for the Feels
Dear Soft Hearted Loves, Some folx ask about how to feel their feelings. I get it. It’s hard to feel feelings. I will say in my experience as a clinical psychologist I know you have everything you need right now to feel your feelings. There actually are no tools one needs, but because we areContinue reading “Four Tools for the Feels”
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