Making Stress Your Friend
"Your stress response has a built-in mechanism for stress resilience, and that resilience is human connection." #stress #thoughts #health...
Benefits of Play Therapy
The Association for Play Therapy defines play therapy as “the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process...
Assertiveness
I’ve had several conversations with people struggling to become more assertive in their communication. I’ve compiled some information on...
How to Confront: Soft vs. Harsh
I stumbled across this picture contrasting a harsh start-up and a soft start-up in a confrontational conversation. Dr. Gottman explains...
Vulnerability
"Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage." - Brene Brown #vulnerability #relationships #shame #counseling #therapist...
Boundaries
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Saving Your Marriage Before it Starts
I recently finished reading this book and found it to be incredibly practical and tangible. They presented the latest research on many...
Thinking Errors - Cognitive Behavior Therapy
"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." - Albert Einstein...
Self-Care
Whether you’re an exhausted mom, a burnt-out pastor or non-profit volunteer, a therapist struggling with vicarious trauma, or a...
Resistance
"Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance." - Steven Pressfield...
