New Filters To Live By
As human beings, we are constantly absorbing stimulation from all our senses (i.e. sight, touch, smell, taste, sounds, and intuition).
Children Are Sages
After observing and working with hundreds of children as well as having my own, I have discovered:
How Couples Can Thrive Through Parenting
I actually feel grief when I hear a couple who have young children say they are divorcing. I have to process the loss of the transformative and healing potential that too many know nothing about.
Anxiety, Sleep, and Trying Again and Again…
Anxiety had affected just about every facet of life, especially sleep. For as long as I could remember, I had trouble falling asleep. I would lie awake for hours worrying, and replays of my past experiences and decisions haunted me. In 2005, it got even worse; I would wake up in the middle of night and could not fall back to sleep no matter what I tried. I complained that it was my stressful job and my partner watching TV at bedtime. I desperately needed to sleep and wanted my job and my partner to change. Anxiety continued to sabotage me. In order to get a peaceful night of sleep, I had to do the following:
Loved-Based Response To Loss
Yes, grief and anger are normal and healthy emotions that are valid and need to be processed after such loss.
The Halloween Dread Reframe
Every Halloween, my son wants to make his own costume. The therapist and educator in me absolutely love his initiative
Positive Reframe on Aging… “Alive Inside”
The Roughhousing Trigger
A Positive Reframe I have had to work on is the trigger I have when my children are roughhousing and my daughter gives a blood-curdling scream even when she is having fun. I know and believe in the importance of roughhousing (see link below) yet have also suffered the harsh reality of aggression and violence. …
“Listen, LISTEN”
When you listen you affirm me
but your listening must be real…
Five Steps To A Positive Reframe and Heal Trauma
We are all doing the best we can with the resources we are aware of or have access to.