Do you have a difficult time falling asleep or staying asleep? Do you tend to wake up feeling unrefreshed and feel tired throughout the day? If you answered yes to these questions, you may be experiencing insomnia. Everyone from time to time experiences poor sleep quality, and most go through the occasional day feeling like…
There’s a saying, “when you know better, you do better.” I’ve found in my personal and professional experience, that although well-intentioned, that’s not necessarily true. In fact, it’s been closer to an experience of frustration and discouragement that after incredible training, vast amounts of enthusiastic digging and passionate reading and research, although I “should” be…
Be aware of “the disturb” … Also called “the pain,” it’s a psychological tactic used in advertising, sales, and the news media meant to prey on our millenia-wired evolutionary tendency to scan for the negative and for threats to our safety and belonging — quite literally meant to “disturb our peace.” We can find it…
Ten Benefits of Telephone Counseling (You’ll LOVE #7) By Debbie Tudor, LPC-Supervisor Rockwall Counseling, PA Have you ever thought of getting help, and know you need to, but couldn’t find a therapist who would work remotely? Call me for an initial consultation! Don’t have to leave your home or office Privacy ( no insurance…
Our Nightly Visitations Dreams are nightly visitations that dance about and enchant our minds with their unpredictable plot twists. Dreams disregard the laws of physics making time travel natural and shape shifting second nature. Myriad mythic creatures teleport from distant galaxies into our beds and commingle with the people that populate our lives. Dreams have…
Are you experiencing physical or emotional symptoms that no one is able to explain or treat successfully? Have you taken prescriptions, antidepressants, psychotropic drugs, pain killers, antacides, and/or the alphabet list of OTC drugs to little or no avail? If so, you are suffering from the after effects of an event/experience you might have long…
A few weeks back, in a conversation with a colleague, she used a term in passing that I hadn’t heard in a long time: “mental hygiene”. We were talking about the different depth-levels of therapy and she was making the point that sometimes before getting deeper into an issue we need to first attend to…
The end of the school year is around the corner and it is that time of year again – it’s Finals time. Your teenagers are probably very stressed or getting stressed. There is a lot of things going on right now, Junior Prom, Senior Ball and other end of the year activities. As I stated…
The research is in. Being kind, giving as a way of being, even doing unto others, are now all undeniably good for us. Thanks to the fields of positive psychology, neuroscience and psychoneuroimmunology we now know that compassion changes the brain, improves the immune system, reduces stress, lowers blood pressure and makes us happier. It’s…
Where Did the Idea of an 8-Hour Sleep Come From? Is our 8-hour work day responsible for the explosion of sleep-related problems that have contributed to the meteoric rise of thousands of sleep clinics and sleep medicine professionals around the country that track the electrical firing patterns arising in our brains in a desperate nightly…