Posted: November 18, 2021
I have found myself in a mood where I don’t really feel much of anything. I’m just feeling blah. I know in times like these I can practice gratitude, pray, or even sing, and it will help begin to lift my mind and spirit out of this rut. But sometimes, even my go-to anecdotes feel […]
Posted: May 14, 2021
Growing up as the only girl of a Hmong family was tough. My parents lived with fear and anxiety from their post traumatic war experiences, all while trying to make a living in a new land where they faced a language barrier. When I was younger, my parents wouldn’t allow me to do things or […]
Posted: April 19, 2021
It was raining out. My kids, Layla & Conley, ages 6 and 4, said they wanted to go outside in the rain. I said no. Right away. “Please mom?! Please can we go outside?!” Why did I say no so quickly? “Oh, okay,” I say reluctantly. As I am saying this I don’t know why […]
Posted: August 20, 2020
Sometimes, when I am going through a hard time, one of the last things I want to hear is someone cheering me on telling me it’s going to be okay. Sometimes, in the middle of our darkest times, when we feel depressed, anxious, empty, full of grief, powerless, or hopeless, we just want to feel […]
Posted: September 5, 2019
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” -William Shakespeare, Hamlet One approach I use collaboratively with clients in helping them reach their goals involves what is known as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Simply put, it describes the idea that people do not passively respond to situations in their life, but rather […]
Posted: May 7, 2019
“There is truth in your pain, there is growth in your pain, but only if it’s first brought out in the open.”1 As a therapist, I hear from my clients a lot that “their story doesn’t matter” or “no one really cares what I’m living through”. We’ve all probably uttered those same phrases; no one […]
