This weekend I did something completely new…I gave a professional seminar. In therapy, people do something new every day to improve themselves. As therapists, we know how hard doing something new is, but we often haven’t done anything outside our comfort zones too recently. It dawned on me that doing something new is exciting, but […]

Do you ever have those days when you just don’t want to do anything? You know there is so much to do and you know you should get up and do those things, but the energy and motivation to do so just seem to escape you? How about taking it from another angle – there […]

This week I decided to do something new – coaching – to help me meet some goals. I am excited to start this new adventure, but also very scared because the cost is pretty high. I asked the coach “I’m excited but terrified. Will you promise to hold me up through my fear?” This is […]

This week I have seen a few people whose emotions seem to be out of control for them. They have a very difficult time bringing themselves into a place of relative calm. I also worked with two of them on calm place/safe place visualization which was very, very difficult for them. Both of them ended […]