I Hate My Life! I’m so Shy! How do I Change It?
I Hate My Life! I’m so Shy! How do I Change It? Shyness frustrates those who wish to have more fulfilling lives, expand their circle of friends, or improve their networking skills to advance their ca ...
Painful Realizations
Not all realizations about the situation that you are in or where you are at in your life will be painful. However, sometimes, when looking back, our defense mechanisms lower enough that we realize ho ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Identifying and Overcoming Anxiety and Depression
This week is National Anxiety and Depression awareness week. When we think of anxiety and depression, we tend to think of the most debilitating and extreme cases of these feelings. The truth is that t ...
Learning How to Feel
A common, yet underestimated problem that many of my clients face is learning to accept and experience emotions. Feeling "numb" is something that many people who enter into therapy discover as a probl ...
Anxiety and Control
Anxiety and feeling a lack of control in your life are highly correlated. I have yet to meet someone who is coping with anxiety who feels comfortably in control of their lives. Think about the differe ...