Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) is less commonly known than Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). C-PTSD develops from an ongoing stressful environment during development or any long-term stressful environment (e.g., abusive relationship(s), trauma...
Have you and your partner been wanting to find a deeper connection in the bedroom? Or, maybe your connection is struggling, and you are looking for a way to jumpstart your intimacy. Sensate focus therapy exercises for couples could be just the thing you are looking...
Have you ever offered to help someone and immediately regretted it? Do you find yourself giving more than you receive in your relationships? Do you have a hard time telling people what you want or asking for what you need out of fear you will be rejected? These...
What comes to mind when you think of values? If you take a minute to think about what’s really important to you, what pops in your head? Family? Friendship? Money? Love? Having the best job? Some of us may think values relate to just the moral or ethical codes...
You have been silent and censoring yourself in conversations for too long. How many more great ideas will you suppress or downplay? Now is the time to reclaim your voice! There is richness in your voice. There is no voice like yours. Yes, even when you are saying...
Divorce hits hard for everyone involved. Whether you’re the couple separating, friends of the couple, or the children, divorce can shake a system to its core. If children are involved, depending on the nature of the divorce and the child’s resiliency, divorce can...
The children of a narcissist are often children who grow up to be codependent, people-pleasers, and have low self-esteem. They are children who never feel good enough for their parents or themselves. This blog post will explore the effects of growing up with a...
Are you finding yourself feeling stuck or weighed down by negative thoughts? If you answered yes, you may be experiencing a negativity bias. Are you curious why you can’t seem to shake the negativity from your life? Are you overplaying negative thoughts or are these...
Are you always putting others before you? Do you struggle to say no to others? Do you find that you sacrifice or minimize your own needs, feelings, or desires to put others first? And in turn, do these responses sometimes cause guilt, shame, resentment, exhaustion, or...
Do you know what intergenerational patterns are? In a sense, people are nothing more than organic machines. That is to say, machines and computers follow patterns to function. These patterns appear in the codes written when programming a machine or computer. In the...