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...
Feelings are powerful. We know the joys of basking in the good ones, and the misery that occurs when it swings the other way. As part of our survival, we evolved to be hyper-aware of the bad feelings. Naturally, the negative, potentially scary and “dangerous” ones are...
If you are curious about whether or not you 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 benefit from therapy at one point or another. No matter who you are or what you have, the...
For many, the prospect of therapy – of having to open up and share your deepest most vulnerable self with a stranger – is terrifying. In fact, fear is cited as one of the main reasons many people who could benefit from therapy opt out, instead. However, the key to...
Most people will experience grief during their life in one way or another. When you lose a friend, partner, parent, spouse, family member or anyone else who held great significance in your life it is devastating. It’s important to have some healthy coping mechanisms...
Grief comes in many different shapes and forms and affects each person differently. Grief can come in the form of a death in the family, a termination of a romantic relationship, the loss of a friend. In this article, we address the 5 different stages of grief and how...
