A good therapist is never judgmental. A good therapist provides a client with realistic concern, honest support, genuine compassion and a personal intervention plan designed to move through painful issues and embrace strengths. Through personally challenging times, we often need help to expand our world and shift our thoughts, in [...]
How amazing to think it often takes a small crisis to help us understand and appreciate what is really essential in life. Facing a short and unexpected illness, I reflected on the importance of the simple things that life provides us. Things we often take for [...]
Difficult conversations often require us to speak up and present a clear base line to others. In my practice this month, I noticed a theme involving the well known circular dance we call ‘pretending things are OK for the sake of other people’. Scott, (2002) shared that “All conversations are [...]
Self Care & Stress Management Tips Stress is an everyday fact of life. Learning how to respond to stress determines what impact it will have on your life and your future. Davis, Eshelman & McKay, (2008) suggest that some stress is good for us and other types of stress can [...]
The feeling of shame is often described as a sense of smallness, worthlessness, and powerlessness in certain circumstances. Shame can materialize as being self-absorbed, self-centered, and particularly isolating. The more prone someone is to feeling shame, the more likely they are to have self-esteem deficits, blame others, hold onto resentments, [...]
To prevent ourselves from becoming hurt, we often create behaviours to protect ourselves and a belief can be formed. However, rather than keep us safe, our beliefs often prevent us from growing and developing as a person. How many of us say we do not align ourselves with ‘self-sabotage’ yet [...]
Marriage Breakups and Grief: A marriage breakup can be one of life’s most difficult experiences. A person experiencing this will struggle with many intense and frightening emotions, including depression, anger, and guilt. Maintaining a broad perspective isn't easy. It’s natural to want to focus on the pain and where it hurts. [...]
