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Science Shows Being Near Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected and Better at What You Do
“We are beginning to learn that our brains are hardwired to react positively to water and that being near it can calm and connect us, increase innovation and insight, and even heal what’s broken,”...
Ten Easy Mood Boosters
There are days when everything feels under control, life is running smoothly, you’re feeling confident and happy to be doing what you’re doing. But then there are other days when that’s just not...
Growing Up With a Parent with a Personality Disorder — It’s Not You
Many of my clients struggle with the wreckage caused by a parent who has a Personality Disorder. Having a parent who has Narcissistic or Borderline traits is confusing growing up. Their...
Why Dating Sometimes Leaves Strong Independent Women Feeling Like Insecure Needy Teenage Girls
Something that I have noticed with many of my clients who are successful, high-achieving, independent women navigating dating is a struggle that transcends age, race and socioeconomics — when it...
Taking Amazing Care of Your Kids is Not Enough to Be a Good Parent — You’re Missing Someone
As I watch all of the parents running around with the start of Fall busting their butts for their kids, I feel their pain and exhaustion. It’s so hard. The expectations of parents today in the...
Divorce — Will It Ruin the Kids?
“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....
Fear of Pain — Is It Worse Than What You Fear?
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 —...
Trauma Informed Therapy
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...
Divorce is 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?...
Do You Want To Get Off The Whirly Ride? Do it — Slow Down, Stop the Noise.
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...
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