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Is Your Life Stuck in First Gear?

Is Your Mental Health Stuck in First Gear? Struggling with life’s emotional challenges requires us to shift gears when faced with unfamiliar terrain, but sometimes we get stuck, feeling shame, loss,...

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Let's Reconsider Discipline

We all know that discipline is important and we want to support our child with care, compassion and positive expectations. In giving thought to the goal of discipline, we can explore the approaches...

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Bias & Stigma in Mental Health

Are you curious about counseling, but worry what your friends or family might think or say if they know you are in therapy? Or are you in therapy now and wish your loved ones would understand its...

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Four Myths About Forgiveness

Four Myths about Forgiveness You are telling the person who hurt you that what they did is okay or acceptable. You can’t forgive someone until they apologize. When you forgive someone, you must also...

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Change: Becoming A Better You

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re one of the 80% of Americans who have already failed to keep their New Year’s resolutions. Don’t feel bad. If that statistic is right--and...

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Validating Your Partner: Understanding vs. Agreeing

Ever wonder if there are some easy ways to start feeling closer to your partner? If you’ve already seen 5 Effective Communication Tips for Couples, then you're on your way to improving your...

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5 Effective Communication Tips for Couples

Looking for a few quick ways to help jump-start positive changes in your relationship? One of the major things that impact relationships is communication. It is definitely a two-way street, and most...

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3 Books to Help you Through the Grieving Process

It's Ok That You're Not Ok by Megan Devine When a painful loss or life-shattering event upends your world, here is the first thing to know: there is nothing wrong with grief. "Grief is simply love in...

Enneagram & Therapy

I love the Enneagram! It can be transformational for people. The Enneagram provides a modern way to explain behaviors we have and motivations of those behaviors. It can help to uncover unconscious...

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We Don’t Talk About That | Family Trauma

“We don’t talk about that” was the unspoken rule in my family. It was the way we dealt with—or better put, didn’t deal with—the family trauma that came in and out of our lives. It was a kind of...