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Resources to improve your mental health, increase your self-awareness, and invite growth.
Feeling Lost in Your 20s? You’re Not Alone.
In therapy, I help clients see that it is so normal to feel the disappointment and chaos of these transitions and lost dreams. We work through those early beliefs about success, love, and self-worth so clients can establish a new vision for what their 20s will really look like.
Gentle Signs Of Progress For Sensitive Women Healing From Emotionally Unavailable Or Invalidating Family Dynamics
Let’s be real: healing isn’t always a glow-up. Sometimes it looks like crying more, feeling more, or suddenly seeing all the red flags you used to ignore.
You might wonder, “Am I going backward?”
But here’s the truth: You’re not regressing. You’re finally being honest with yourself. You’re feeling what you’ve long held back, and that’s a sign of deep courage, not failure.
Self-Compassion Isn’t Selfish: A Therapist’s Guide to Being Kinder to Yourself
Almost every client I’ve worked with has shared that they always extend grace to friends or family or even coworkers. But that grace stops when they get to themselves. It is clear to me that if you can have grace for other people, you have the capacity to have grace for yourself.
Summer Reads for Healing: 4 Powerful Books for Adults Struggling with Relationships
These summer reads are not meant to replace therapy, but they can surely enrich it. Each book invites reflections, validation, and a deeper sense of self-awareness and acceptance. If any of these books resonate with where you are right now, consider adding them to your summer reading list and letting it be a part of your healing and growth.
Navigating Relationship Difficulties: When Individual Therapy Can Help
When we can identify how it is that we responded to distress in childhood, we also get a peek into how we are managing relationships today. This can lead us to understanding a core wound, which needs attention. And if we process the unresolved pain on an individual level, it will help restore the relationship pain too.
Beyond the Basics: Deep Topics to Explore in Therapy
Although therapy is a great place to process one specific issue, therapy can go far beyond symptom relief. Today, I’m highlighting the deeper, often transformational topics for therapy that a good therapist can help you explore.
Your First Session: Moving Past the Nerves to Building Trust in Therapy
Let’s walk through what you can expect in your first session, how to calm those nerves, and how to begin building trust in the therapy relationship.
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