How to Complain Without Hurting Your Partner… or Your Relationship

How to Complain Without Hurting Your Partner… or Your Relationship

If only every couple knew this. It’s the strategy employed by married people who, 25 years later, still can’t get enough of each other.  It’s knowing how to express how you feel without hurting your partner’s feelings or immediately putting them on the defense. ...
How to Manage Stress and Anxiety

How to Manage Stress and Anxiety

The past few years have been a lot. The uncertainty. Inflation. Politics. That underlying thought of, what’s next?  Balancing all of that, PLUS daily life. Let’s just say, if you searched “how to handle stress,” or “how to stop a panic attack,” you’re definitely not...
What Makes You Anxious?

What Makes You Anxious?

Anxiety is a bully. Because it has complete access to your mind, it knows your deepest fears. It knows the exact buttons to push—all your nightmare scenarios—that send you spiraling.  If you give it an inch, it takes a mile. The more you acquiesce and give in to its...
Why Self-Pay for Therapy?

Why Self-Pay for Therapy?

For anyone who’s curious about whether or not they could benefit from therapy, there’s one way to tell for sure: Are you breathing? Great. You need therapy. All joking aside, all of us can benefit from therapy at one point or another. No matter who you are or what you...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, which begs an honest question: what is mental health, really?  In a nutshell, mental health encompasses our inner world. It includes things like psychological and emotional well-being, as well as the nature of our relationships to...
Bad Habits That Affect Mental Health

Bad Habits That Affect Mental Health

Habits—bad ones especially—are sneaky. They take time to build, and during that process there are things that happen “behind the scenes” that reinforce their power. Bad habits that lead to us feeling better in the moment are especially powerful, and can be really hard...