Navigating New Realities: When Your Son Comes Out
Navigating New Realities: When Your Son Comes Out Although gay and lesbian folks continue to find more and more acceptance in our society, coming out can still be daunting. For a parent, it can be a ...
Men and Therapy: Get Past the Stigma and Feel Better!
Men and Therapy: Get Past the Stigma and Feel Better! Men benefit from therapy just as much as anyone else, but are generally very apprehensive about actually going to see a therapist. Only 2 out of ...
Overcoming a Little “t” Trauma
When we think of trauma, we usually think of the most obvious of traumatic events like those that are related to assault, war, accidents, or natural disasters. These experiences are undoubtedly diffic ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Dealing with Failure
Failure is in the definition and in the one who defines it. Some failures are more universal than others, but reactions to particular failures tend to be as individual as the experiences themselves. A ...
Working Backward from the Emotion
Working Backwards from the Emotion Working through an emotional issue is often not easy. There are several strategies that people use, which disguise themselves as success. Some will distract themsel ...
Dealing with the Anxiety of the Apocalypse and Other Unlikely Events
Around the middle of 2011, I started to hear many people talk about the "end of the world". I would have friends and co-workers ask if I believed that the end of the was going to happen in 2012. I wou ...
How to Overcome Anxiety
Infographic that gives a brief description of how to deal with a problem with anxiety. This infographic starts with a description of why we live with anxiety to begin with. It then shows how dealing w ...