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Finding Your Way Through Early Pregnancy Loss
Understanding Grief, Making Space for Healing Experiencing an early pregnancy loss can bring a kind of grief that’s hard to explain and often even harder for others to see. This grief is sometimes referred to as ambiguous loss a mourning that doesn’t come with...
3 Ways to Help Get More Communication from Your Teen
Part 2: Make the Car a “Safe Zone” One of the biggest no-no’s that parents are regularly committing is making the car a place where they connect with their teen. Your kiddos rely on you for regular transportation, and in the car, there is nowhere to hide! The car is...
6 Communication Strategies You Need to Know for Your ADHD Child
There are several learning curves to raising a child. Let alone one with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). At times, it can feel frustrating, overwhelming, and confusing, but it can also feel rewarding, successful, and loving. In my experience working...
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Think about a someone in your life (past or present) that you have/had romantic feelings for. What did that person do for you that made you feel particularly special? For some people, their partner bought them “just because” flowers…for others, it’s a long embrace...
Supporting Kids Through Divorce: Informing the Kids (Part 2)
People get a divorce for a multitude of reasons--it’s a difficult decision that many people make, and unfortunately--there is a lot of judgment from others that comes with it--especially if children are involved. There isn’t a script about how to tell your kids or...
Supporting Kids Through Divorce: Making the Decision to Divorce (Part 1)
When thinking about marriage, people generally think of all of the happy aspects of it--a life together forever in pure bliss…which is everyone’s ultimate goal, right? We can assume so. But, what happens when things do not work out as planned? According to the...
Anxiety’s Scale and What You Need to Know
So, you have anxiety. What do you need to know? Anxiety can be an all-inclusive overwhelming feeling or it can be this little voice in your head that never seems to go away. How is that possible? Scaling It Out Anxiety is on a spectrum and I like to look at it through...
Tacos, Tequila and Mental Health
Frequently, we can find ourselves feeling worn down and grumpy, without an understanding of what could have caused that feeling. There wasn’t a bad day at work, or a fight with a friend, and you can’t pinpoint anything else that has happened to you – but you still...
What I Wish My Parents Knew About Childhood Mental Illness
Dear Mom and Dad: 1. Be Patient This is all new for me. I am still learning how to identify and name all my emotions, and understand what is happening in my body. With this mental bully, I am having to learn all that any child my age would learn on top of what my...
Surviving Lymphoma and Gaslighting
A teacher is walking down the hall, as she turns the corner, she sees a child shove another student into a locker. When she approaches the child, she asks, “Why did you do that?” The child replies, “Do what? I didn’t do anything.” The teacher then says, “But I saw you...
Six Truths About Trauma
As a trauma therapist, I work extensively with children, teens, and adults who have experienced or witnessed an event that was scary, shocking, or dangerous. There are misconceptions about what and who is impacted by trauma. Below are six truths about trauma that you...