Are You Getting An Objective Substance Abuse Evaluation?
Making a decision on who you want to conduct your substance abuse or DWI evaluation is a crucial one to make. If you are getting this evaluation to meet the requirements asked of by your attorney or t ...
Emotionally Surviving Black Friday
Emotionally Surviving Black Friday Black Friday, and especially the days leading up to it, can be intense, even if you're not aware of it. It is important to pay attention to how marketers create a l ...
Quick Guide to Surviving Holiday Stress
With the holidays fast approaching, holiday stress is common. This time of year can bring mixed emotions for many people. On one hand, the idea of seeing relatives, spending time with family, and ge ...
Knowing Your Vision
Life without a vision can lead to reactivity. Looking at what you have and what you want are the first steps to walking out of an uneasy space. It's easy to avoid spending time and energy thinking abo ...
Walking Through Pain…What’s The Point?
Identifying and accepting pain and the sources of this pain is not at all a fun thing to do. So why do it? Why do therapists push for this so often? Walking through pain can help with several things. ...
Life As It Should Have Been
It's easy to get caught up in the fantasy of how things could be if you would've responded differently or if others would have reacted differently. This line of thinking can give you a temporary sens ...
Growing Through Shame
Shame is something that we often try to avoid. Walking through a place of such vulnerability is understandably undesirable, because human beings are naturally quite pain aversive. Our aversion to pain ...
Identifying Low Levels of Depression
Severe depression is quite easy to identify. Most people know that they're dealing with depression when they are experiencing these more extreme versions of this emotion. However, if you're dealing wi ...
Stick to the Plan
When trying to make a change in your life, staying the course through a plan can leave you feeling insecure. It doesn't matter if this change is to feel better emotionally, or if you are trying to cha ...
Getting Comfortable With “I Don’t Know”
Trying to control everything about your life will feed into a cycle of worrying that will not end. All the things that you don't control can be intimidating, so it's an understandable way to try to de ...