Blog
Popular Topics
A Path to Relieving Chronic Pain
Holistic psychotherapy offers hope for chronic pain sufferers. This comprehensive approach addresses psychological triggers, stress reduction, coping strategies, and lifestyle factors, leading to lasting relief and improved well-being. If you're living with chronic pain, consider holistic psychotherapy as part of your pain management strategy for a more comprehensive solution.
Attachment Styles & Our Relationships
Attachment styles are patterns of relating to others, primarily formed in early childhood through interactions with caregivers. These styles play a significant role in shaping how individuals approach emotional intimacy and relationships, impacting their trust, vulnerability, and behavior. Working with a licensed mental health professional is a safe and supportive way to address and potentially change one's attachment style.
Holistic Couples Therapy
Holistic approaches to relationship counseling offer a comprehensive perspective on strengthening couples' bonds by addressing the psychological, physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of their connection. This method stresses the importance of enhancing connection to resolve underlying issues.
Embodiment: Coming Home to Ourselves
The text explores the concept of embodiment, emphasizing the importance of reconnecting with the physical body in a culture that often prioritizes intellectual and emotional aspects over the physical. It defines embodiment as the experience of being a body in a social context and highlights the significance of exteroception, proprioception, and interoception in creating a felt sense of self.
How Trauma Can Impact Your Relationships
Trauma can make it more difficult to connect and engage with others and can lead to difficulties in trust, communication, and intimacy.
Intrusive Thoughts: An Acceptance and Commitment Approach
An exploration of Intrusive Thoughts, including what they are, who has them, and why they’re so emotionally distressing. From there, we’ll move into exploration of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a mindfulness-based behavioral therapy that can offer us relief in the form of psychological flexibility.
Self-Compassion + Your Nervous System
Just as our stories are different depending on how the nervous system is functioning, the stories we are telling ourselves also impact how the nervous system is functioning. We have the ability to help support the nervous system in regulating or to contribute to dysregulation.
Love After Abuse
How will I know when I’ve found a healthy relationship? I wish there was a simple answer to this question. One of the most important characteristics of a healthy relationship is both partners feeling safe. This can be tricky because it’s different than feeling comfortable. Sometimes, we stay in relationships because they are familiar even if we aren’t happy or if our needs are consistently unmet.
6 Ways to Overcome a Breakup
Going through a breakup can be an emotional and difficult time, and it's important to take care of yourself during this period. Here are six ways you support yourself holistically during this time.
How to Shift the Inner Critic Mindset
Our inner critic is often fueled by cognitive distortions which are internal mental filters and biases that often leave us second guessing ourselves as well as feeling badly about ourselves. Learn how you can use the 4 C’s to modify these unhelpful thoughts and change the way your inner critic speaks to yourself.
Creating a Life Worth Living is the only Resolution You Need
Creating a life worth living is all about finding pleasure in the small moments of our everyday life. By identifying our values and the small things that bring joy and contentment in our everyday life, we are able to create a life worth living.