• Wellness

    The stories exploring self-care and mindfulness.

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    How Using Mindfulness in Therapy Can Help Your Clients

    Have you ever left a session with a client feeling like you couldn’t get through to them? Maybe they were … Continued

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    How to Take a Vacation as a Private Practitioner

    Over the last twenty years or so, the number of adults seeking mental health treatment nearly doubled. In many ways, … Continued

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    The Tension in Therapy: When Personal Emotions Arise in Session

    Let me set the stage: it’s January 2022. It’s dark and cold outside. I’m tired, inching toward the end of … Continued

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    What is Somatic Experiencing?

    There’s much ado right now about meditation. A CDC report in 2017 noted that more than 14% of Americans had … Continued

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    Monotasking: How We Reclaim Our Attention

    Over the past two years, we’ve all experienced the boundaries in our lives collapse. The lines between work, school, and … Continued

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    Using Gratitude to Overcome the Comparative Suffering Trap

    I’m a dual citizen of the US and Canada. This has some pros and cons, but one of the biggest … Continued

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    Setting Healthy Boundaries as a Helping Professional

    There is a clip in an episode of season 3 of the sitcom Seinfeld where Jerry goes to pick up … Continued

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    Managing Pandemic Stress for Established Working Moms

    The past eighteen months have been uncertain for everyone, but that doesn’t mean the usual life changes have stopped happening. … Continued

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    Sacrificial Helping Syndrome: Why Do We Give More Than We Have?

    Most of us became therapists because we want to help people. Maybe we’ve entered this profession because something traumatic or … Continued

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