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Grief During the Winter: Why It Can All Feel So Heavy
For many people, grief during the winter season can feel especially charged. The days are shorter, the weather is colder, and the winter holiday season often feels like a bag of mixed emotions. If you're experiencing grief this time of year, you're not alone, although...
Regressing During the Holidays: Why It Happens and How to Cope
Have you ever gone home for the holidays and felt like a little kid around your own family? Or have you ever felt like you're one person around the people in your current life but someone else when you go home for the holidays? If so, this may speak to experiencing...
How to Deal With Difficult Family Members During the Holidays
Do you find the holidays to be more exhausting than joyful? More dreadful than connecting? Does dealing with difficult family members during the holidays make you want to skip out on this time of year altogether? If so, you're certainly not alone. A recent study found...
How to Regulate Your Nervous System When You Feel Flooded
Everyone experiences a dysregulated nervous system from time to time. Life can be incredibly stressful, and when things feel hard, we sometimes respond in ways that later make us cringe or feel remorseful. You are not "broken" if you experience this- it's genuinely...
Understanding Neuroplasticity: How Our Brains Adapt and Change
Does it ever feel like change is impossible? Are you frustrated because you keep making the same mistakes over and over again? This pattern, while it can be exhausting, often has less to do with willpower or motivation and far more to do with understanding the...
Understanding Your Window of Tolerance and How It Relates to Trauma
Sometimes it might feel like you "lose control" over your emotions even when you "logically" know things are okay. Other times, you may act aggressively or passively despite a desire to remain regulated with others. These reactions may be due to a narrow window of...
IFS Parts Work for Anxiety: Benefits and How It Works
Parts work is rooted in the non-pathological concept that we all have different parts existing within us. These parts have various needs and preferences, and they each care about helping us survive. Parts work derives from numerous therapeutic modalities, including...
Therapy for Intellectualizers and Overthinkers: How You Can Truly Benefit
Therapy for intellectualizers and overthinkers isn't just about cultivating insight. Chances are, you already have insight- you may have so much insight that it feels debilitating! With that, maybe you feel like you've been smarter than previous therapists, or you've...
Myths About Chronic Pain: What We’re Still Getting Wrong
Research shows that about 20% of all Americans experience chronic pain. And yet, we're largely in the dark about how to talk about, treat, and show compassion for those experiencing these difficulties. Myths about chronic pain can perpetuate internal suffering and...