Tips for Supporting Partners with Childhood Trauma are not easy to come by because there are no easy fixes for complicated healing. Everyone’s journey is different and if your partner is just seeking help in recovery, your support may look very different from someone who has undergone years of therapy. All things considered, these tips …
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What do you say to someone who is suffering? Depending on your own identity, past experience, or even frame of mind at the moment, you might simply ask “How are you doing?”, without having any idea of what can come next. If you have no experience with the trauma they are going through, you might …
Non Violent Communication 2020 is a suggestion to all my patients, non patients, friends, and family to communicate with more compassion and understanding. People have turned to non violent communication for conflict resolution, but when you apply it to your daily life, the results are more authentic connections and expressions of needs that stop miscommunication, …
Your partner is probably both, and is potentially an addict or potentially an asshole. I get asked this question all the time and it is not a one time question. A lot of my betrayed partners experience ranges of emotions when the event or events or relapses take place and they have every right to …
If you are in an abusive relationship, here are Abuse Resources for help. I was in an abusive relationship. You can read about this here. As you will find from the statistics below and from my story, you are not alone. I accept new patients here. Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233 If you cannot speak …
How to Disagree during Covid 19 is not easy. Whether online or in confinement, we are consistently bombarded with information and much of it is triggering for our belief systems. On top of that and for my purposes as a licensed marriage and family therapist, our restricted access to places to go if we wanted …
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With the predicted spread of COVID-19, many of us find our mental health challenged and our trauma triggered with COVID-19 Triggers. Whether you are recovering or are in an active cycle of addictive behaviors, I would like to offer an action plan for gaining control over negative patterns and triggers that lurk in times of …
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There has been a tremendous amount of controversy around whether sex addiction treatment is sex-positive or sex punitive. Although there may be some sex addiction therapists who are not well versed in sex positivity, it is not a trait that can be generalized to all sex addiction therapists. In order to work with sexual addictions, …
