Valentine’s Day is all about love. Honestly it’s often about romantic love. That’s probably why it’s irritated me for years. Romantic love and commercialism. I’ve pretty much ignored it for quite some time now. But recently I’ve been reflecting on just how important love really is to me. Love for friends and family, the love …
I recently invested in a great program to help me build and grow my business. I kind of freaked out since I’m spending so much money on it….so I did what I always do when I freak out… I turned to friends for reassurance. It went kind of like this: Me: “Oh my gosh! Can …
I love to be successful. I like to be good at things and feel like I’m accomplishing all the things I want to do. In fact, when my kids were younger and I had like a million things to do each day I’d love to make myself a list each morning. Even if there were …
I was fortunate enough to be able to take some time off over the holidays. I was super excited and really looking forward to it. I’m a planner but I wanted to allow this vacation to be chill and relaxed so instead of making “plans” I set a few goals: 1- spend time with my …
I mentioned last week that I gave up on New Year’s resolutions. I’m a therapist so I know all about goals, even SMART goals. Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time bound. The problem is that when I try to set one of those goals for myself, particularly for an entire year, I just get all …
For me, New Year’s is a time of reflection. I often take time to think about the year that has passed and what I want for the future. This hasn’t always been the case though. For a long time I always looked at the new year as only a time to set a new year’s …
The holiday season is here. I’m reflecting back on this year as this will be my last blog post of 2020. I’m going to be taking time off between Christmas and New Year’s…in my experience most people don’t show up for their therapy sessions during that time. I can’t blame them. The holidays are not …
One of the hardest things I’ve learned as a therapist is to see past what’s on the surface and find compassion. Everyone has done things we’re not proud of. In one way or another we’ve all hurt someone. Compassion happens when we can see beyond what has been done to the person underneath. This does …
I started this blog as a way of giving back. I imagined that I would teach concepts here that I teach when I’m doing therapy and in that way I could be helping to improve people’s lives even if they’re not my clients. I enjoy thinking of what concepts I teach in therapy that I …
During my meditation at the end of the day I release what is not mine to carry. Lately I decided to also release old feelings and trauma that have been stored in my body. I said, “I’m ready now to feel it and let it go.” Here I am about a week or so later …