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How to Focus on Small Victories When You Feel Stuck It’s not uncommon to feel “stuck” in many different areas of your life. Maybe you’re in a job that doesn’t bring you fulfillment. Maybe your relationship is stagnant. Or, maybe you’ve just found yourself feeling flat with your day-to-day life.
Finding the Right Therapist: How Similarities Can Affect Growth Recently, Vantage Point had a staff meeting where all of the therapists’ Meyers-Briggs personality types were anonymously written on the board and discussed among the group. Everyone at the meeting at first seemed puzzled and intrigued, but as the meeting went
Having Trouble Accepting Yourself as Transgender or Non-Binary? – What You Can Do Society has made great leaps and bounds towards accepting people who identify as transgender or non-binary. Yet, although there is growing advocacy and pride for transgender and non-binary communities, it does not mean that your individual road
Treatment Takes Time… Staying with the Process Therapy can take time. It can be difficult to stay with the process. You are committing a lot when you engage in such deep work. You have to take time out of your day. It can be emotionally draining. You can work through
6 Boundaries and Grounding Tools to Get Through the Holidays The holidays can be a wonderful time of fun, connection, and joy. However, they also can be triggering as well. As Christmas approaches, our struggles can feel increasingly overwhelming. Out of nowhere, we can be thrown into triggering relationships and
Self-Care During the Holidays The holiday season can come with a lot of stress. Perfectionism and anxiety can take over, while trying to make the perfect meal, find the perfect gifts, and create the most perfect memories. Call it socialized pressure from long-term expectations that we have always just known
Identities versus Authenticity Many of us struggle to show who we are, without judging ourselves, or focusing on the judgments that others will have about us. Thus, we can build up identities of how we want people to see us. This can range from a few aspects of who we
7 Things to Remember When We’re Sick Don’t let anyone tell you that there is no shame in being sick. That’s simply not true. We may feel sadness, sympathy, empathy, or hurt for those who are dealing with illness. When it comes to ourselves being sick, we are not usually
Should You Practicing Generosity in Relationships After a Tough Year? In Brenè Brown’s most recent book, she discusses the importance of practicing generosity. Identifying ways to give people the benefit of the doubt in our relationships and friendships. However, she also discusses the importance of boundaries. One of the most
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 difficult to cope with and often do lead to serious issues with trauma, yet there are many other more