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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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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You’re successful, but still feel overwhelmed. Discover why waiting for a crisis to start therapy is a costly mistake. Learn how proactive therapy and EMDR can help you build resilience and thrive.
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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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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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It’s easy to get distant from your closest loved ones and not know how or why it happened… or how to fix it! Suddenly you just look up and…you’re lonely! It’s not too late to get back in touch. If you’ve been MIA for a minute, and need to reach out again, here’s the formula
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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 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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