Suicide: What Can I do? How Can I Help? Follow Your Instincts
What can I do about suicide? How can I help? What you need to know. Sadly, in the past week, there were two highly publicized deaths due to suicide. Like [...]
What Are Personal Boundaries and Why Are They Important?
It is essential to have personal boundaries to have healthy relationships. Personal Boundaries are important because you set basic guidelines of how you want to be treated. The problem [...]
Do I Have Low Self-Esteem?
Are you always saying you are sorry and apologizing? Do you go against what you think and feel because you are afraid of what people may think? Are you able [...]
Your Parents Needed Therapy: How To Know If Your Parent is a “Narcissist”.
How do you know if you grew up with toxic family and or/parents? What are the symptoms of narcissistic parents? You may have known that something was "not right" [...]
PTSD: What you know and probably don’t know about symptoms
Recently, on a local morning show, I was asked about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and how it affects people on Halloween. Indeed, loud noises, unexpected surprises, and even costumes [...]
Meditation and Inner Peace
Although meditation is often associated with the Buddhist religion, it is a secular technique that has been shown by researchers to help with anxiety, depression, and many other mental health [...]
Emotional Trauma: Break Free From the Past
All people experience traumatic events during their lives. Maybe you grew up in a dysfunctional family environment where you had a narcissistic or alcoholic parent. Perhaps you were bullied as [...]
Help with Grief: The Inevitable Human Condition
We all experience grief and many losses in this lifetime. It is a part of the human condition. Grief can be defined as the symptoms and reactions that accompany the [...]
The Power of Gratitude: Exercises to Elicit Gratitude and Positive Feelings
Research supports that feelings of gratitude can help with our overall well-being. For example, feeling grateful can help with improved social functioning, better sleep, relationship satisfaction, and a protective factor [...]
Happy New Year: Resolutions?
Happy New Year! May this year be filled with peace and blessings for you. As we embark on 2016, it is time for the dreaded New Year’s Resolution. The reason [...]