Make Bids For Connection For Your New Years Resolution
Make Bids For Connection For Your New Years Resolution When we think of a New Years Resolution, we tend to think of major, life changing goals. Sometimes we think of the superficial, such as I want t ...
Keeping Authentic To Make Your Holidays Happy
Holidays are a stressful time for all of us. We have to leave our normal routines, buy gifts for people, and spend time with people that we have a long history with. It's true that holidays can be a g ...
Planning for the Firsts: Holiday Season
There are many firsts in recovery. There is the first sporting event without alcohol. There is the first date without alcohol. There is the first holiday season without using. Facing a social situatio ...
Recovery and ‘Tis the Season
At this time of year, commercials, advertisements, and social network feeds are filled with images of happy families, friends, and celebrations for the holiday season. This can be a very difficult t ...
Dealing With Infidelity
According to a recent poll commissioned by The Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 41% of surveyed couples admitted that either or both individuals committed physical or emotional infidelity. 22% ...
Early Recovery: “…growing up in public.”
Recovery from active addiction involves much more than simple abstinence from drugs. There is common phrase among addiction professionals and those advocates in the recovery community that addiction i ...
Handling an Emotional Affair
When clients come into couples therapy for an emotional affair, there are many things that have to be taken into consideration within the relationship and within therapy. Emotional affairs are compl ...
Fear of Vulnerability
Getting vulnerable is often the last thing that we want to do. There is so much emotional risk involved in letting people in on what is going on inside of us. This is the place that we can communicate ...
Identifying Your Values
Knowing what you value is an important part of any type of healing, growing, and setting goals. This is often an overlooked as a potential avenue to growth, and a barrier that can keep us in a stagnan ...
It’s Not Your Fault
In traumatic situations, it's very common that the person who was traumatized blames herself for the event having happened. Whether this be the event itself, or what they feel they should've done, the ...