Self Therapy: 31 Questions You Can Ask Yourself I’m going to start off this blog post where I left off in my last post. I stated: Ultimately, my goal is to help you gain clarity and get you back on your own unique path so you have the confidence and tools… to fully …
Therapists don’t have the answers to your problems… But You Do! I’ve noticed that some people take their therapist’s advice as the capital ‘T’ Truth. I sometimes think that therapists have replaced a role that has traditionally been given to a religious leader or a wise elder… And I’m not gonna lie, it makes me …
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I Don’t Know What I Am Feeling Help! If you don’t know what you are feeling, that could be a sign that you are emotionally numbing as a coping strategy. Here are other signs of emotionally numbing out: You don’t enjoy activities that you once did You feel chronically distant or detached from others Life …
Emotional Numbing And Trauma: 4 Things You Need To Know Emotional numbing is a concept that doesn’t get much “air time” in our society. Additionally, people that use emotional numbing as their ‘go-to’ coping mechanism don’t (often) see it as a problem… Heck, they don’t even see it as a coping mechanism. However, one of …
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The Alternative To Shaming Labels In my last blog post, I took a deep dive into label shaming. I shared research that indicates cultures that use a label to define a whole person (or group) have greater problems with crime and recidivism. Our culture happens to be a label-shaming culture. Shaming labels are …
Where Is Shame Held In the Body? Thanks to the work of Brene Brown there has been a national conversation around the concept of shame. In case you haven’t come in contact with Brown’s work, let me give you her definition of shame: Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that …
Length of Depression: What You Need To Know In Part 1 of my blog post on depression, I examined common questions I often get regarding the duration of a depressive episode. In Part 2 of my blog post on depression, I examined the underlying causes of depression and the various types of depression. Today, …
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Part 2: How Long Do Depressive Episodes Last? Welcome to my second of three blog post that attempts to answer the question, “How long do depressive episodes last?” If you missed my first blog post, head over to it now… and stay tuned to my next post about how long depression can last. Today, …
How Long Does It Take To Get Over Depression? The answer is so complex and nuanced, it’s going to take more than one blog post to fully answer the question. Today, I’ll be examining commonly asked questions about how long depressive episodes last. In the next blog post I’ll focus on the different types of depression …
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Grounding Techniques For Dissociation That Could Change Your Life I promise that I’ll get to grounding techniques for sissociation in a moment, but first I’ll start with defining dissociation. Dissociation is when you feel outside of your body. The experience can have a wide variety of symptoms. If you’ve ever daydreamed, you’ve experienced a …
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