It’s Time for Your Mental “Tax Season” to Be Over.
Black women have always known that work is a high-stakes environment for us, even when it is not an openly hostile place.
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Why You Keep Trading Your Peace to Please Others (and How to Stop!)
When you keep using that emergency-focused approach long after the fire is out, it stops looking like ‘resilience’ and starts becoming a liability to your own health and happiness.
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TikTok said you’re “triggered” and it’s a “trauma response.” Now what?
Over the past 10 years, I’ve noticed a major change with new clients. More clients already have some official, professional terms to describe their symptoms. They use the *fancy* words. They want to know: “Do I have ADHD?” “Am I on the spectrum?” “Is this a trauma response?” Now, this is expected when many of
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The Hidden Friction of Trauma is Slowing Down Your Brain.
Once you no longer need to ask yourself questions like:
-Why can’t I follow through on my plans?
-Why do I feel so exhausted all the time?
-Why can’t I focus on work?
-How can I stop second-guessing myself?
…life gets a lot smoother.
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2 Questions You’d Never Think to Ask Your Therapist, but Should!
In the first therapy session, your therapist give you lots of practical information and will ask a lot of questions about you. It’s normal to feel a little nervous about this process if you’ve never done it before. This isn’t how regular conversations go. Conversations in normal life usually include a little more back and
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3 Ways to Manage Complex PTSD Symptoms at Work
In my office, I treat different trauma-related conditions. One is a type of PTSD called complex PTSD aka cPTSD. In short, it’s a cluster of symptoms that develop after lots of repeated awful experiences. OR it’s the kind of PTSD that is worsened by additional family or social hurts. Symptoms of cPTSD can include the
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Tired of Being Your Own Worst Critic? 3 Therapist-Approved Books You’ll Love.
As a trauma therapist, one of the main battles I help clients fight is the battle with their own mind. Trauma can trick you into thinking that you’re not good enough, not doing enough, not worthy of good things. It will try to make you remember bad things and make you forget everything that’s great
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Asking the Big Questions
Lots of people are asking the big questions of themselves these days. Personally, I’ve just experienced a major, joyous life change, but even the happiest changes can come with incredible stress and BIG shifts in perspective. More broadly, the news remains full of terrible things happening to people who don’t seem to deserve it. This
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3 Ways to Get the Most from Intensive EMDR Therapy
One of the things I love most about my clients is how genuinely thoughtful they are. Now, thinking a lot is often a feature of PTSD, depression, or anxiety. But in this context, it’s also a sign that, deep inside, they value the time and effort they’re investing in themselves! This is a huge potential
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Black History Month 2023: 4 Strategies to Find Black a Therapist.
Black history is filled with so much beauty, and so much trauma. We are resilient. And we have so many more things to overcome. Sometimes, when you’re processing your own story, it’s helpful to work with someone who is familiar with the bigger forces in our world. These forces also impact us individually. It’s helpful
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