Counseling

Freezy Face: An Anxiety Tip

The Face Dunk: A TikTok Tidbit If you’ve seen the hundreds (thousands) of people on TikTok dunking their faces in ice water and touting...

Managing Burnout

Managing Burnout Burnout is a buzzword that seems to be everywhere and indeed, an entire industry calling itself “wellness” has cropped...

Morally Neutral Coping

Next up in my queue (thank you all for your patience!) was a request to write about alcohol use. Something that I tell my clients...

Recognizing & Coping with Emotional Incest

First up in the year’s blog lineup is a topic I got a few requests on, and a dynamic that many people wind up uncovering in therapy. If...

"Too Much" & the HSP

Have you ever felt that you were “too much”? If so, when did you learn that? When I was younger, I got so excited about things that were...

Single-Tasking

I’m not sure when or where (although I frequently hear people blame some episode of Oprah’s talk show) that ‘multitasking’ became a...

Impermanence

The tradition of healing stories, storytelling, and growth and change through the art of stories is well documented throughout human...

The Inner Critic (+ Yoga)

As a yoga teacher and licensed therapist, I tap into both the science of yoga and the science of the mind. In truth, many of the...

Spoon Theory

Spoon Theory Are you familiar with Spoon Theory? For many of us with chronic illness, this theory helps us explain things to people who...

Counseling, Coaching & "Experts"

Social media, the internet, and every city in America are filled with “coaches” and self-help “gurus”. They’re everywhere and with a...

The Passive Aggressive

One of the things I hear in my counseling sessions most often is a story of interaction between two people, the statement of emotion from...