3 Tips: How to Take Action On Your Anxiety
When you don't know what will happen next, do you automatically predict the worst-case scenario?
A Love Letter To Single Parents
To all of the single parents out there— I’m writing this list of truths to you like a love song, in the hopes that you sing it to yourself, as you would a lullaby to your child.
We Are in Break-up Season (and that's no joke)!
David McCandless and Lee Byron gathered information from Facebook profiles and found the most prevalent times of the year for couples to break up.
How You Can Support A Survivor: Believe Them
I am a social worker. I have been a volunteer for 12 years as a sexual assault response team advocate. I’m a business owner of a psychotherapy private practice and spend my days doing clinical work. Likewise, I’m very committed to activism and educating others about sexual abuse.
Do Affirmations Really Work?
Affirmations are positive phrases which you recite to yourself, describing how you want to be. The goal of repeating affirmations is to have the positive messages sink into your subconscious mind and combat those limiting belief systems and replace them with empowering thoughts.
Stop Over-Apologizing: Tips To Help You Quit!
The other day I was waiting on the subway platform in Brooklyn to take the F train to work, when a stranger abruptly bumped into me. The person responsible kept walking (no apology was given).
Honoring Mother's Day and the Grieving Process
The month of May is powerful. Seedlings have blossomed as we dust off the winter blues and layer on a little less as we face the day.
Embracing Magic!
Do you believe in magic? Regardless of our age, experiencing something magical feels like having a sudden rush of electricity running straight through your body!
Moving With Kids
Moving is stressful. Over the last 20 years I have moved over 15 times: across cities, across the USA, and across oceans. Along with the excitement that accompanied each move, came a unique set of challenges too.
Affirmations For The Broken Heart
Today I’m sending healing affirmations to all of those who are suffering from a broken heart.
The 5 Reasons You’ve Been Avoiding Couples Therapy, And Why You Should Try EFT
Connection. Attachment. Intimacy. Attunement. These buzzwords, which therapists have been using and studying for years, have become commonplace in our vocabulary, but what do they really mean?
All-or-Nothing Thinking
Do you have a romantic partner who has a tendency to view everything in extremes? Maybe your beloved will come home sharing that they just had the ‘BEST DAY EVER!’’ Your significant other may quickly idealize people and see others as being nothing short of perfect.
Adult Bullying
It might be a decade (or more) since you graduated high school and witnessed an unsuspecting victim get pushed in the hallway, remembered false and hurtful gossip spread and encountered that targeting student who was given the icy cold silent treatment by friends.
Compassion Fatigue and Empaths
Those who know you well would describe you as extraordinarily wise, empathetic, and sensitive. Good or bad, you will feel your feelings intensely and find your mood is strongly impacted by those you are surrounded by.
Strategies When Having A Panic Attack
It feels like you are at war with yourself when you are having a panic attack. You wouldn’t wish this feeling on your worst enemy!
Handling A “No” Gracefully
Sylvia Plath once said, “I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.” Thank you Sylvia! What a wonderful way to reframe rejection! Imagine the pain we would avoid, if only we viewed rejection as proof of our courageousness and evidence of our self-investment?
Help! I Might Be Involved With A Narcissist
Comedian Chris Rock brilliantly shares, “When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them, you're meeting their representative.” While we all intuitively know that it takes time to authentically know each other, we also have had those magical moments where we meet someone and feel an immediate and undeniable connection.
Triangulation
If you are conflict averse, having to initiate difficult conversations with loved ones can be so extremely anxiety provoking! I get it. When our significant relationships go haywire, we may frantically search for anything and in some cases anyone, to repair the pain.