Category: Trauma

Important Considerations Before Starting Therapy…

Considerations For Getting Started in Therapy

Many folks might be curious about starting therapy but struggle to know how to select a therapist or even how to consider therapy services. If you do not work in the healthcare field yourself or are new to the idea of investing in therapy, you may be very unfamiliar with how it all works.

This post aims to help people become more familiar with the current landscape of therapy so that you can make informed choices about your care.

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Breakup to Breakthrough: When Splitting Up is For the Best

“We desperately need a more open dialogue about how severely heartbreak impacts our emotions and functioning. And for such discussions to be productive, we have to disavow ourselves of the notion that there is something childish, embarrassing, or inappropriate about feeling severe emotional anguish when our heart is broken because heartbreak is devastating at any age.” –Guy Winch

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Learning how to set healthy boundaries…

Setting better boundaries doesn’t happen overnight…

Deepening your understanding of your current boundary needs and setting a plan to honor them is radical self-love.

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Coping With COVID-19 Stress

How are you?

I hope you are safe and well as we continue to navigate these uncertain and scary times together.

I wanted to take a moment to share a few thoughts/ resources in the hope that it spreads some hope and serves as a gentle reminder that we have the capacity to exercise some control as we go through our days in the context of this unprecedented time due to COVID-19.

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Exploring Your Personal Relationship To Nature…

You should sit in nature for 20 minutes a day…unless you’re busy, then you should sit for an hour – Zen saying

Our relationship to nature can be a complex one. Exploring more deeply our personal experiences and what constitutes quality time in nature can help us to be more intentional when it comes to prioritizing our mental health and wellness.

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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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