Mar 30, 2020 | Child & Teen Counseling, Couples & Marriage Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
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...
Feb 8, 2019 | Child & Teen Counseling, Couples & Marriage Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
Each year, as the summer winds down, I usually find myself saying, “Boy the summer sure went by fast!” If you have kids, this feels especially true. But, no matter what, when the temperature cools down and we get a little less sun each day, we have to say goodbye to...
Oct 30, 2018 | Child & Teen Counseling, Couples & Marriage Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
Most of us agree that our lives would be better if we could forgive those that have hurt us. So why don’t we? Below are three of the most common reasons people choose not to forgive. I don’t want to send the message that what happened was okay. Forgiving...
Sep 29, 2018 | Child & Teen Counseling, Couples & Marriage Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
Repression of emotion is one of the most common strategies of regulating emotions used by humans. People may suppress emotions for a number of reasons. Just a few reasons may be: (1) When they have expressed emotions in the past, they were ignored. (2) When they have...
Sep 1, 2018 | Child & Teen Counseling, Couples & Marriage Counseling, Family Counseling
If you’re like me, I have an uncanny ability to listen to so many things at the same time I don’t really hear any of them. Between the music, the phone, the TV, the computer and whatever voices I have in my head (the healthy kind :)), I can barely focus on another...
Aug 20, 2018 | Child & Teen Counseling, Family Counseling
It wasn’t the first party I had been to. In fact, I had been to lots of parties before this one. But this is the first one I drank at. It had all the necessary ingredients for youthful adventure and stupidity: Lots of unsupervised teenagers, miles of forest, a bond...
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