Learning how to validate self is a process.
We often emphasize the importance of validating others and downplay the importance of validating ourselves.
Practicing gentle and positive self-talk encourages our growth.
Category: Intimacy
What’s Your Relationship to Being a Beginner?
The struggle…
While browsing a local museum shop a while back (so much love for museum shops!), this nature-inspired pottery caught my eye. While I loved the colors and craftsmanship, I was most struck by the description of the artist…
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Characteristics of an Effective Stress-Reducing Conversation…
An Intentional Conversation to Promote Healthy Relationships
A stress-reducing conversation is essential when it comes to maintaining a sense of connection and support within a close relationship. It helps us to feel loved, cared for, and valued. All of which help us to show the same to a partner. Continue reading “Characteristics of an Effective Stress-Reducing Conversation…”
Cultivating Resilience, Self-Belief, and Identity
Something that’s so important to keep in mind is this idea that you matter. We can often look around and experience so much noise around us that it can feel hard to feel a sense of peace and calm inside. It can also feel hard to maintain a sense that we are important and that we matter – to ourselves and to others.
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Do I need therapy? Maybe. Probably. Don’t we all?
We all go through times when we feel ill-equipped to navigate a tough situation or distant from ourselves and others. We might know something’s off but struggle to figure out exactly how to change it or what can be done to produce different results.
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What is the Modern Accelerated Program (MAP 90-minute consultation) and How Can it Help?
Healthy Relationships and Personal Growth
The MAP 90-minute consult for couples provides a safe space to explore relationship concerns without the pressure to commit to ongoing weekly therapy as partners. I have found in my years of working with couples that sometimes a psychoeducational consultation is exactly what is needed.
Relationship Lessons From Nature…
I enjoy hiking but am not an avid hiker. It’s something I’d like to challenged myself to do more frequently. To help me engage this desire, I recently joined a casual hiking group in the area, and I was delighted (and a bit relieved) when I saw an “outdoorsy” movie screening come up on the group calendar thinking: this is probably a little more my speed at the present.
Vulnerability Takes Courage…
Part of what I love about being a therapist is the ability to explore in great depth the human condition in all its complexity. I am often struck by my clients’ courage and willingness to grow and achieve a deeper level of connection with themselves and in their intimate relationships.
How Does Couples Therapy Work?
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” -George Bernard Shaw
Annoyed With the Dating Scene? Check in About Your Priorities…
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” -James Baldwin
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