Welcome the Santa isn’t even a mind reader: Detached Gift Giving Guide. Tis the season for BIG feelings and A LOT of resentment, if you are not armed with tools to manage expectations and stay grounded in gratitude. Emotions can run at an all-time high from Thanksgiving to the gift-giving holidays. If you were triggered …
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How to REALLY practice gratitude on Thanksgiving, Instead of getting triggered? Easier said than done. Thanksgiving is not just a time when you are triggered by your family, you can just as easily be triggered by your friends, triggered by posts by your friends, and feel fresh trauma while trying to enjoy turkey. This is …
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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, …
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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