bree emery

  1. Who Are You? And How Can CBT Help You?

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    Our identities are made up of a number of varying factors including (but not limited to) our beliefs, our values, our personality, and our physical characteristics.  Another way we might think of identity is our self-image.  Our self-image is our mental picture of our self.  Our self-image is affected by how we view ourselves and by how we believe others view us. Additionally, our perceptions o…Read More

  2. Thoughts on “The Red Shoes”: A Woman’s Need to Keep Her Footing 

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    (excerpts from Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Este´s, PhD) “Once there was a poor motherless child who had no shoes. But the child saved cloth scraps wherever she found them and over time sewed herself a pair of red shoes. They were crude but she loved them. They made her feel rich even though her days were spent gathering food in the thorny woods until far past dark. But…Read More

  3. How Puberty May Affect Your Teen

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    The hormonal waves are crashing.  The mood swings might cause whiplash.  The overwhelming sense that this child’s body is dictating their whole world. It’s puberty. I decided to write about some challenges girls face in puberty because I have witnessed the distress in both girls, and their families, during these erratic years of development.  Thus, I want to speak briefly about some p…Read More

  4. The Dashboard Of Emotions

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    This life often requires us to seek help to deal with everyday discomforts.  Being in community with others is often enough.  However, physical pain can become debilitating enough that we schedule with a physician.  We may turn to counsel for unique reasons, but what commonly prompts us to schedule is pain -- either pain for which doctors cannot find a cause or pain originating i…Read More

  5. How To Make Friends

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    As I’m returning from lunch with one of my favorite people, a friend of mine, I’m contemplating this interesting concept: friendship.   We often spend a lot of energy, and place a lot of emphases, on romantic relationships. We often believe that finding the “right” romantic partner will make us happy and fulfilled.  However, research shows that friends are actually even more impor…Read More

  6. Who’s Having Trouble Falling Asleep at Night?

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    Here are four things you can try to facilitate the, much desired, drift off to sleep. Just a few stats (because I’m a nerd like that;) • 50 to 70 million people in the US suffer from one or several sleep disorders. • 30% of the adult U.S. population suffer from Insomnia and 10% from chronic Insomnia. • 75 to 90% of insomnia sufferers have an increased risk of medical disorders su…Read More

  7. Bree Emery Shares How She Empowers Women To Find Their Inner Strength

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    As many of you know, or can learn from reading my bio. on our website, I work with girls and women.  Because of the population I serve at Emery Counseling, there are certain topics with which I have become intimately aware.  Additionally, I am a woman myself.  I am friends with women.  I have a daughter.  I came from a woman.  I came from another woman’s body.  This sacred act of birt…Read More

  8. Self Harm – Help For The Parents

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    Finding out your child/teen is engaging in self-harming behaviors can throw any parent into a whirlwind of emotions- fear, anger, sadness, and confusion (just to name a few).  Understanding why your child would harm their body can be very difficult.   I intend to shed a little light on the why here, but I, primarily, would like to give some feedback on how you, as the parent of someone w…Read More

  9. Why Does Taking Care Of Your Trauma Matter?

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    Today, I am going to speak about trauma. It’s tricky; you know? Trauma is one of those things that people, generally, want to forget (individually and as a society). However, although it is not an easy or popular topic, it is significant.   According to sidran.org (online resource(s) for survivors and loved ones of PTSD), “an estimated 70% of adults in the US have experienced a traumatic eve…Read More

  10. Bree Emery Shares Her Favorite Quotes

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    This blog is going to be a bit unorthodox.  In the midst of an intense time for girls, women and all people of this land, I am going to use the words of others to share some insights because, as Neitzsche once said in The Twilight of Idols, “That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.” “What a woman needs is not as a woman to act or rule, but as a nature to grow, a…Read More