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What is Trauma and trauma therapy?
What is Trauma? Trauma is a word that is often used to describe a range of experiences and symptoms. It is a physiological or emotional response to something that had a deeply disturbing effect on an individual. It can be a...
Therapy Tales (part one): The Nuts & Bolts of Therapy
What is Therapy and What Therapy is not! Therapy is Therapy Scene from Austin Powers Just kidding. Therapy is “treatment intended to relieve or heal a disorder”, according to the Oxford Dictionary; but it's so much more for many people. Therapy is often a...
Their Stuff/My Stuff: Creating a boundary of ownership
Do you ever find yourself saying…’It’s their fault for ruining my day today’ or ‘If they didn’t do this I wouldn’t feel this way’? What about when someone else gets mad about something and you think “I shouldn’t have done that.” One of the more challenging issues...
Creativity in the time of COVID
In the current state of our nation, I would guess that everyone’s focus is on their immediate necessities--food, water, health and safety, making sure we limit contact with others to slow the spread of this illness. As Maslow’s hierarchy shows, these are at the...
Resources for managing your anxiety during crisis
We are in unprecedented times and it has been nice finding resources that cost little to nothing. Many of the ones listed below are only active during the time of COVID. We will update the list weekly until our current crisis is over. Feel free to try one or all. Let...
Parenting during COVID
The Longest Shortest Time If you’re a parent, you probably know about the phenomenon, “The Longest Shortest Time”...It’s the first several years of your child’s life when the days feel SO long but the years fly by--and suddenly your newborn baby has grown into a...