I know there is a lot of information being thrown your way about how to survive the quarantine best. Most information feels overwhelming and impractical: Write a Book! Change your entire life! Build a commercial gym in your living room! Learn a new language! Be a hero! I want [...]
SOLUTIONS AND RESOURCES FOR QUARANTINE As the entire world shifts, shuts down, and isolates, the mind wants to run wild. With the flu season and the COVID-19 Coronavirus, forcing people to live an isolated life in their home while the world is rapidly changing can cause both rational and irrational [...]
Anxiety: When There is No Lion at the Door What exactly is anxiety and what is the difference between anxiety and an anxiety disorder? First, it is an emotion and emotions are neither good nor bad; they are simply an alarm inside your mind and body that [...]
Who are you? Identity after Trauma Life takes each of us through natural significant developmental stages of transitions (infancy, toddler, childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, retirement, etc.). Each of these transitional stages requires us to develop a new part of our identity. This can be complicated by a plethora of decisions [...]
The Traumatized Brain: Why Trauma Causes Triggers Life happens to all of us. Throughout scripture we see where we are guaranteed to face trials, tribulations, and persecutions. Knowing this only serves to normalize our experiences, it does not prepare us for unexpected life experiences and it does not prevent [...]
Negative Belief Systems: The Joy Robber I want to tackle the concept of negative belief systems and the joy robber that they are. Negative belief systems are created from life experiences. More on that topic here (The two sides to every life story: The significance of self-talk). Here is how [...]
I have learned over the years of counseling that the holidays are packed full of emotions. For most it is a mix of pleasant and unpleasant emotional experiences adding to the frustration and complexity of the holiday season. STRESS DEPRESSION ANXIETY LONELINESS GRIEF FAMILY DYSFUNCTION EXHAUSTION OVERWHELM GUILT SHAME [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAkQRdF227E I want to open this blog with an exercise: Before you read any further, what is your definition of peace? Write it down and think about it. Make sure you are satisfied with how you have defined, experienced, and expect peace to look and feel in your life. How [...]
Introversion is not something that is widely celebrated or even understood. When was the last time you read a job description that said something like “do you like to isolate, live inside your own head, and feel overwhelmed by other people? Well, this is the job for you!” I don’t [...]
Wow! How many times have you asked God “WHY?!” Why me…why the good people… why not the bad people… why is a powerful word when it is packed full of emotions. When life has left you hurting it seems to almost be natural instinct to go to God in anger [...]