Telling The Truth: When You Don't Want To But Have To
Have you been guilty of holding back the truth from someone you care about? I can relate that it can feel impossible to be vulnerable when sharing the truth means you will hurt someone important to you.
How To Deal With Help-Rejecting Complainers
Do you have someone in your life who is constantly feeling sorry for him/herself yet, NOTHING is EVER their fault? I am not talking about someone who is going through a rough time and needs some extra understanding and empathy.
Broken Heart Keeping You Up At Night?
Heartbreak, it turns out, is not exclusive to lovestruck teenagers. Hearing those painful words that a person you love and want to be with, “It’s not you, it’s me” or “I hope we can still be friends,” can literally feel like you are being stabbed in the heart.
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.
Dating After Heartbreak... How Long Do I Wait?
Remember that time after you and your ex recently broke up and you were cleaning up your bedroom only to find a t-shirt that belongs to your former partner?
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.
5 Signs You Need to End a Toxic Relationship
What can you do when you become attached to someone who repeatedly hurts and mistreats you?
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.
Friend-Enemies: How To Handle Jealousy In A Friendship
Imagine that you have a friend who becomes cold, distant, punishing, and appears to dislike you when you receive praise, happy news, and/or success.
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.
What Are The Signs of Depression?
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately one in ten Americans experience depression at any given time.
Identifying With The Aggressor
I am fascinated by the incredible survival instincts human beings have. Our intuition and instincts are so profound and accurate. Likewise, listening to our body and trusting our gut reaction has often helped us survive life or death situations.
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.