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5 Practical Tips to Deal with a Emotionally Explosive Spouse
Dealing with an emotionally explosive spouse is not easy. One minute you’re fine and you feel like you know your partner, the next, you feel like...
Why Therapy Over Summer Vacation is Best for Your Child
Summer is the perfect time to get your child into therapy. If your kiddo is struggling, or if your family life feels chaotic, the summer months are ideal for getting back on track. What better time than fall to turn over a new leaf and start the school year off on the right foot?
Remember, early intervention is key in preventing bigger problems down the road.
Here are some Tips to Help Your Child Be Open to Therapy Over the Summer
Managing the Different Parts of Us
We all face multiple decisions throughout the day: Go for a run, or plop on the couch with popcorn and the remote instead? Eat the leftovers in the fridge, or slide through the In-N-Out drive thru? Order an Americano, or get that Caramel Frappuccino?
And, in those moments, regardless of what you choose (or how you end up bribing yourself), there’s a very opinionated and vocal committee involved in the decision-making process.
You may hear the voice of your mom, who always criticized your weight. Your five-year-old self who didn’t get her needs met as a child appears, and is adamant about her sugar fix. Then, there’s that person you aspire to be who is appalled at all the ways you’ve been falling short recently.
Honestly? Tussling, appeasing, and trying to negotiate with the inner committee is exhausting.
Here are some ways to sort through the internal noise …without totally wearing yourself out.
Do You Feel More Like Roommates? Five Ways to Reconnect With Your Partner
Why do we feel like roommates instead of partners? Has your relationship with your partner become stale and routine? Does it feel like you have a...
After the Affair: The Danger of Not Seeking Therapy
An affair leaves one person on a rollercoaster, cycling from being too angry to talk one moment to then just wanting to know, WHY?!
And the other person? They likely feel deeply ashamed—filled with self-hatred and regret—as they stand on the precipice of losing everything.
Yes, affairs are a colossal breach of trust. But… if you’re wondering if there’s a possibility your relationship can recover from this, it can.
Here are some of the ways (backed up by statistics) that seeking marital or couples counseling after an affair can help save your union.
How to Find a Great Couples Therapist in Roseville
We all know that seeing a couples counselor is the way to go when your relationship is rocky. However, there’s more to it than that: all therapists are not created equal, and it’s important to find someone you mesh with—someone you both feel comfortable around, and perhaps most important of all, someone who knows what they’re doing.
Here are some tips on finding a couples counselor in Roseville California—or anywhere really.
The Difference Between a Therapist and a Life Coach
There is a colossal difference between a therapist and a life coach, yet it’s easy to still confuse the two. Life coaches are everywhere, promising to help you get out of a rut and grow into the person you were meant to become.
As tempting as this sounds, if you’re struggling mentally, choosing a life coach instead of a therapist can actually do more harm than good.
Let’s take a closer look at the difference between the two.
5 Blocks to Listening in Your Love Relationship
How do I listen better? Have you ever been talking for a while and noticed that the person you were talking to wasn't paying attention? An...
Are You a Fixer?
If you’re a fixer, here’s the brutal truth: You’re missing the real issue.
Though society holds people with seeming selfless tendencies to a high esteem, the reality is that people who devote all their energy in efforts to fix and control others tend to be codependent. They’re often driven to partake in this type of behavior as a result of unresolved wounds.
Here, we’ll take a look at some of the reasons why people gravitate towards being fixers—what they’re actually trying to accomplish when they become overly involved in the behavior of others—and if you’re a fixer, what you can do instead.
Blending Families Isn’t Easy But These Tips Can Help
Blending families not only create challenges that are unique, but are quite overwhelming. Consider these comments, for example: “I had hoped to win...
Master Resilience: Bounce Back Well
Our emotional state plays a big part in the human experience.
When life is good and things are going well, we often feel invincible.
Then the pendulum swings the other way. Something happens – perhaps there’s a loss of some sort – and everything feels flat. Those old feelings of sadness, worthlessness or shame bubble back up to the surface and small tasks and decisions feel overwhelming… you’d rather stay in bed.
While there’s no way to truly eliminate the hard parts of life, there are some tricks you can use to help lessen the sting.
This piece is dedicated to learning how to master resilience: what it is, why it’s so important, and examples of how to use resilience to bounce back.
Keep Your Kids Engaged This Summer
While it’s important that kids get a chance to decompress over the summer months, it’s crucial they don’t spend the entire time behind a screen.
Yet, since most parents don’t get summer vacations along with their kids, it can become a challenge to ensure they remain engaged.
Here are some ideas on ways to keep your kids active and involved over the summer, ideas that will have a positive impact.
Paralyzing Anxiety: Flight-or-Flight’s Brother, Freeze
A paralyzing anxiety attack can almost completely shut you down.
When Fight-or-Flight’s brother, Freeze, hits you with his Supervillain-like freeze ray – unless you have a high frequency ice pick handy – you’re stuck!
Okay, okay. Anxiety related “freezing” might not be quite as dramatic as a Superhero battle.
But a paralyzing anxiety attack is definitely similar to being caught in the icy grasp of an overpowering force. You spin your wheels on slippery ground. You cannot move an inch.
Worst feeling ever!
How can you possibly shatter the grip of this frosty companion to the fight-or-flight response and get moving again?
Take These Steps to Manage Anxiety and Begin to Thrive!
How do I Manage Anxiety? Just like a plant grows vigorously and flourishes when its needs are met, humans thrive when they are cared for and cared...
Improve Your Relationship: Understanding Bids for Connection
You may be surprised to know that most communication is non-verbal, and when it is verbal, often, it’s indirect: Most people aren’t great at asking for what they want.
This is why understanding a bid for connection is so, so, important.
A bid for what, exactly? You may be asking, what are you talking about?
Here. Let’s take a look.
Reach out to start your healing journey today