What is Therapy Like? The therapy process can be difficult, painstaking, surprising, funny, a huge relief, and scary, among other things. Like slow, for example. The only solace I know where slow is concerned is that slow sticks. What you learn, forge, build, take away, do differently stays with you and helps each subsequent change you…
The call came from my wife on November 15th, 2012 while standing in my professor’s office in my first semester of graduate school. “There’s no heartbeat,” are the words I remember most from that searing conversation. Our baby was gone, just like that. I fought off hot tears as I tried to safely drive home…
Stress Reduction As a person perpetuates stress and continues to endure excessive tension, he or she may experience an escalating frenzy or become a candidate for stress-related illness. While certain types of stress can be good for you, stress that begins to debilitate or produce depression is completely undesirable. When this happens, it is a…
Self-compassion has received a lot of research recently (over 1,000 published studies)! Psychologist Dr. Kristen Neff was the first to come up with a formal definition of self-compassion, and use it as a measure in psychological research. Her definition of self-compassion is made up of 3 components. 1.) Mindfulness In order to give ourselves compassion…
Do you find that your mind often compares you to others? Tells you that you are not as good as those around you? That you don’t have the best job, or you are not as kind, smart, funny, pretty, or courageous as the other people in your life? Does your mind beat you up a…
I’m operating with a new mantra, Keep clearing. Doing another round of letting go of the old (like possessions, processes, ways of thinking…), and I’m seriously embracing the concept of entering a New Era… Feeling amazing… Yay! How are you doing? If we want change to happen, we have to change how we do things… We have…
Lately it seems every time I tell someone I’m a therapist, I’m met with: “It’s so hard to find a good therapist.” After hearing it for what seemed like the hundredth time recently, I began to ask myself, “Why is that?” Studies show the most important factor in determining a successful outcome in therapy is…
How are you doing? Hope you are keeping the momentum from the New Year going… As I’m sure you already know, right about now people start floundering with their New Year Resolutions, Intentions and the like… Tomorrow is the 3rd Monday of the New Year and known as Blue Monday… The end-of-year drive, the holidays merriment…
One of the most common reasons people visit a hypnotherapist is to overcome fears or phobias. Fears are a natural part of life. Everyone fears something such as being robbed or being hurt in an accident. This type of fear is not necessarily bad; as it may prompt someone to take precautions such as locking…
Purchase: Emotional Wound First Aid Kit If you answered YES to more than one of these questions, there is reason to suspect that an emotional injury, wound or pain is present in your life. I often suppress my feelings. I choose to keep hurtful events a secret. I hold anger or resentment. I have trouble trusting…