7 Tips to Help Your Child with School Anxiety It’s that time of year when we kids are headed back into a new school year. Each year this brings about a host of unknowns and consequently anxieties. You can help your child learn to respond to their anxiety in healthy …
If you have become frustrated with yourself for feeling depressed, anxious, or any other emotion, you are not alone. We are often taught that emotions besides “happiness” are flawed and troublesome. What we fail to understand is that these experiences are normal and helpful when interpreted accurately. In this …
Using Your Anxiety For Good This is the second post in a three part series about anxiety. In the first post, I discussed learning to recognize your anxious signals when they occur instead of reacting to them automatically Instead of automatically responding to anxiety, it’s my hope that you can …
Learn to Separate You from Anxiety If you’re ready to escape the persistent pressure of anxiety, your first step will be learning how to think of anxiety as something separate from yourself. Learning to notice your Anxiety as it happens and developing a curiosity about it will do wonders to free …
Have you ever been walking through a public space and then suddenly started to wonder if you were walking weirdly? Or maybe you sat in a crowded room convinced those behind you were judging the way you were sitting. Maybe you rejoice in the ability to order a pizza online …
I am often asked how I manage to hear about struggles, traumas, griefs, and pain day in and day out. My answer is always the same. It’s about the stories. Everyone Has A Story We all have a story. No one escapes this life without one. While all these stories …
Spinning Our Wheels Why do we get stuck in miserable patterns? Why do we make the same mistakes, or fall into the same emotional funk time and time again? Why do we wind up in the same types of relationships over and over? Ask any therapist and you’re likely to …
