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: 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 […]
Posted: February 27, 2018
Why Kindness Matters So, it turns out that being kind to someone else not only benefits the recipient, it benefits the giver too! The affects of kindness to others may be apparent. It’s not hard to imagine making someone’s day by holding the door open, giving a compliment or buying lunch. But what we now […]
