Balancing Emotions and Reason

Balancing Emotions and Reason

Rationale. Emotions. Mind. Heart. We often think of these as opposites or at odds, but ideally we’d be utilizing and integrating both to strike a healthy balance and help with decision making.  It can be hard to accept that more than one thing can be true at once…...
Trauma and Adaptation

Trauma and Adaptation

Trauma is the West’s more urgent health concern. This is what Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps The Score, and with 30 years of experience behind him, argues. What is trauma? Trauma is defined as an emotional response to a terrible event, like an...
How to know if you need couples therapy?

How to know if you need couples therapy?

The pandemic is a real “relationship accelerator.” It’s helping relationships or taking a toll on relationships as we’ve all been forced into this new and unusual situation.  The unemployment rate is up; there may be disparity in parental labor; there’s trauma and...
Reintegrating Post-Pandemic

Reintegrating Post-Pandemic

  Over the last couple of years we have had to adjust to a life more extreme than anyone thought it would be. We have regained some normalcy and are still reintegrating into society. This may sound exciting, or scary — or both! We have been living out of...
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