There is often so much shame around mental health symptoms, dysfunctional behaviors and beliefs. One of the most important things to me in this work is helping to relieve this shame, through non-judgement and normalization. More often than not these ways of being or coping…

Have you ever noticed how this is true? You can know something from your rational mind, from the adult part of self, AND at the same time believe something completely different at an emotional level? This happens when we internalize negative messaging from childhood about…

Have you ever noticed how this is true? You can know something from your rational mind, from the adult part of self, AND at the same time believe something completely different at an emotional level? This happens when we internalize negative messaging from childhood about…

This is a continuation of the discussion around fight/flight/freeze/flag/faint response is your body’s physiological response to threat. It is triggered by a release of hormones in your body when your nervous system perceives a threat. This perception of threat happens before conscious thought and is…

Stories are powerful. The process of telling our stories is powerful – that is one reason that therapy is so helpful, as is expressing our story through art. The story telling process can absolutely set us free. Then again, it is often the story we…

You do not owe the world an explanation. Your wish for others to understand makes total sense, but there are many in this world who will not want to understand. There will be people who will be rooted in not understanding, no matter how eloquently…