by beachcitiespsy | Jun 14, 2024 | Parenting
“This divorce will ruin our kids.” Will it? Or is it a myth? Divorce with at least one mindful parent willing to dig deep and do the work entrenched in the pain of divorce is an opportunity. When parents use adversity to fuel growth, they became healthier and more...
by beachcitiespsy | Jun 14, 2024 | Anxiety
I’ve been thinking a lot about pain — my pain, my client’s pain, my children’s pain and pain in general. We fear pain, avoid it with good reason— it hurts. We shelter our loved ones from it — sometimes stay in bad marriages to keep our children from feeling it. We...
by beachcitiespsy | Jun 14, 2024 | Trauma
Once upon a time, therapists told clients to go over all of the gory details of the horrific things they had been through because it would be therapeutic. They were wrong. Sometimes this can deepen the neural pathways to the trauma and even re-traumatize. The moment I...
by beachcitiespsy | Jun 14, 2024 | Trauma
In my practice, I often see people going through divorce or who have gone through divorce. I also work extensively with people struggling with trauma. Do these seem like two different things to you? They are not. Guess what? Divorce is trauma. This is how the American...
by beachcitiespsy | Jun 14, 2024 | Therapy
Do you ever feel like you can’t keep up? Everything is moving forward, you have to forge ahead while keeping all the balls in the air, your day is scheduled with work and family and kids, you don’t have a moment of calm from the time you wake up until you go to bed...
