By: Rachel Cooper, MS, LPC-Associate Supervised by Amber Quaranta Leech, PHD, LPC-S Amority Health – Blog – Shifting Perceptions The holidays can feel overwhelming, even for those used to managing everything with precision. If you’re a high-achieving adult, it’s easy to get caught in the cycle of “I have to do it all” […]
There’s a particular kind of heaviness that comes when you wake up one day and realize you’re drifting. You’re doing the motions — work, conversations, scrolling, errands — but inside, everything feels blurry. People assume “lost” means irresponsible or dramatic. But most of the time, feeling directionless is something quieter: the slow fading of an […]
Let me tell you what self-care is not. Self-care is not… a get-out-of-jail-free card a life raft saving you from burnout a remedy for being depleted a stop-gap for overworking a cure for what ails you an excuse to stay when all the signs are pointing for you to go a fix to offload stress […]
I believe that self-care is a myth. That we have been sold a bill of goods. Trust me, I didn’t always think this. Instead, for years I peddled handouts of self-care suggestions to my patients. The kind of lists with 100 items listed as “Self-Care Activities.” Lists like: Soak in a bath Light a scented […]
There’s a peculiar paradox nestled in the heart of human behaviour: we are equipped with brains powerful enough to analyse, rationalize, and dream past the stratosphere—yet we so often find ourselves tripping over our own shoelaces. You’ve probably said it: “Why do I keep doing this? I know better!” Those cycles of procrastination before a […]
Most people think confidence means never doubting yourself.But that’s not confidence.That’s performance. We’ve been taught to see confidence as a show — the strong handshake, the straight posture, the words that never hesitate. But real confidence has less to do with how you appear… and everything to do with how you return to yourself when […]
This is a blog from earlier this summer, but the subject still applies. Enjoy! This is not the essay I had planned for this week. I planned to share more bits from my memoir draft. But instead illness had another plan in mind. I like to think that I’m partnering with creativity each week, yet […]
You hold it together all day-at work, at home, managing a thousand moving parts. But when one small thing goes wrong, you lose it or shut down. That’s your window of tolerance in action-the range where your nervous system can handle stress before flipping into fight, flight, or freeze. When you’re outside that window, logic […]
Have you ever experienced what Irvin Yalom calls “an awakening experience” – when you realize you are not really living? Have you ever woken from a dream state to see that you are just going through the motions? That your life is on autopilot? That you checked out somewhere along the way? Life during Lockdown […]
I know that reaching out for therapy can take courage. If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve been carrying a lot — trying to hold it together, showing up for others, while wondering when it might be your turn to feel supported. You don’t have to do it alone. I work with adults and young […]
