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Finding the Right Therapy: Do You Need Solutions or Life Changes?
Individuals enter therapy with different intentions, desired outcomes, and commitment levels. They also have distinct time restraints and financial resources for therapy. Given the diversity ... Read More
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Why Is Engaging a Child’s Brain and Body in Therapy Important?
Children experience the world through action, play, and exploration. They are propelled by their bodies and guided by their senses. Thus, it is important children in therapy are not expected ... Read More
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Does Your Inner Critic Fuel Anxiety? What Can You Learn Instead?
When you make a mistake, how do you react? Are you overly critical? Do you always blame yourself, even for the smallest mistakes? That’s your inner critic talking. The inner critic is ... Read More
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Rearranging the Stars: Healing Through Family Constellations
From a space of wonder, in a garden under a summer moon, two lovers studied the starry sky and considered how they might arrange the constellations if they hadn’t already been named. ... Read More
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Could Alternative Medicines Help Fight the Opioid Epidemic?
There has been a spike of interest in alternative pain treatments such as yoga and massage. When integrated with conventional medical treatments, they can help people cope with pain. According ... Read More
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Developing Emotional Literacy to Disrupt Insecure Attachment Styles
Parenting is no easy task, and most parents likely feel, at least some of the time, as if they are doing an imperfect job. Any number of challenges, from environmental factors such as poverty ... Read More
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Inhale Pain, Exhale Joy: How Tonglen Helps Create Unity and Compassion
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” —Dalai Lama Tonglen is the Buddhist practice of giving and taking. More ... Read More
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Connecting with Our Lived Experiences Through Mindfulness
Awareness of impermanence and appreciation of our human potential will give us a sense of urgency that we must use every precious moment. – Dalai Lama Life is unpredictable and constantly ... Read More
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What Are the ‘Should’ Statements in Your Dreams Telling You?
The language of dreams can seem foreign, especially for those of us who were not brought up honoring our dreams. However, when we chronicle our dreams and examine them more carefully, something ... Read More
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Using EMDR to Find Your ‘Safe Place’ in Trauma Recovery
Life can be stressful for anyone, but for people dealing with the negative effects of trauma on top of everyday life, elevated stress levels can be much more common. One course of treatment ... Read More
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Emotional Overwhelm: How DBT’s Crisis Survival Skills Help
Have you ever felt like your emotions are so overwhelming they will never stabilize? Maybe you have an intense urge to return to unhealthy or risky behaviors to make yourself feel better. ... Read More
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Living in the Moment: What Mindfulness Is and Is Not
Let’s stop making mindfulness something other than what it is. Let’s stop making mindfulness the great cure-all. Let’s stop making mindfulness another gimmick to improve ... Read More