Eating Disorder Therapy – Has Your Struggle With Food Taken Over Your Life?
Are you constantly thinking about your weight and counting calories? Do you feel out of control when eating? Eating disorder therapy can help you overcome these challenges you face and find freedom from the difficult relationship you have with food. Can you relate to...
Relationship Help – Traits of Toxic People and What to Do When They Are Making Your Life Miserable
Have you found yourself in painful relationships that end up feeling like you are repeating the same pattern over and over? Do you feel controlled, like someone else is running your life? You can break these painful relationship patterns by learning to choose...
15 Quotes That Inspire Change
15 Quotes That Inspire Change By Linda K. Laffey, MFT One of my favorite quotes to help inspire change of all time is, “The only person who likes change is a wet baby.” Author unknown. With change being inevitable, like death and taxes, and the most important...
Are You Wondering If You’re Transgender?
Are You Wondering If You’re Transgender? Perhaps you’re feeling frustrated? Guilty? Stuck? All alone? Confused? Ashamed? Who Am I? Wait a minute. Who am I, and why am I writing about this? I have been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for 16 years. I am...
6 Ways To Reduce Harmful Anxiety
6 Ways To Reduce Harmful Anxiety Anxiety, in the right dose, can be your pal. It can warn you when a situation is about to become scary or life-threatening. It can motivate you when you are being challenged. When anxiety becomes intense, it will not go away. When It...
EMDR Therapy: Understanding Complex PTSD
EMDR Therapy: Understanding Complex PTSD Could you or someone you love be suffering from Complex PTSD? Are you struggling with reliving pain, fear or feeling powerless to stop recalling the trauma? Are you experiencing nightmares or flashbacks? Do you find...
Relationship Advice For Women: Choosing The Right Guy
Here are 3 helpful dating advice tips Are you tired of repeating the same dating disasters and want to know how to avoid them? Have you had enough of dating the same disappointing guy again and again? If you would like to change the course of your dating experience,...
How To Stop Your Panic Attack And Prevent It From Ever Coming Back
By Linda K. Laffey, MFT Your heart is racing. You are sweating and trembling. You are gasping for air. You may feel like you’re dying or going crazy. When talking about severe anxiety symptoms, panic attack is certainly one of the most, if not the most, severe. ...
Stress Therapy Works
by Linda K. Laffey, MFT Adapted from a prior article on stress and anxiety. Often people just need to find relief from busy lives. Stress is a natural biological response and a powerful motivator. Most of us accept it as the necessary adrenaline push to get things...
When Talk Therapy Is Not Working, Consider EMDR Therapy
What do you do when talking about your painful experiences won’t release their hold on you? When you need a trauma cure? Talk therapy works for some people. Others, not so much. Exposure therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) are common talk therapies...
Making Time for Me: 10 Tips to Make the Most of Those Precious Moments
by Linda K. Laffey, MFT on January 4, 2016 For most of us, life is hectic. Crazy busy. A non-stop, on the go, never-ending challenge to work more, earn more, do more, and be more. And “me time?” “Me time” is a fantasy you’re too exhausted to make true. But what if...
Is Past Trauma Controlling Your Present Life? How to Break Free
by Linda K. Laffey, MFT When the worst happens, it’s hard to move on. It’s hard to go back to day-to-day living. It’s hard to see your current life, with the old kind of optimism and innocence you once called “normal.” Traumatic events can shackle your...
Your Belly’s Full but You Feel Empty: How to Find Out What’s Missing
by Linda K. Laffey, MFT Have you ever sat and wondered at the plates, packages, or piles of food you just ate … and still felt a hole inside? It feels like an emptiness that just won’t fill, no matter how much you eat and drink. No matter how long you drag out...
Understanding Trauma, from Mild to Severe
By Linda K. Laffey, MFT The term is bandied around in the news and on talk shows as people try to make sense of the world and all of its troubling situations. “Traumatic events” on college campuses. “Post-traumatic stress” affects veterans and their families....
Irreconcilable Differences: Is it over? Think again!
The phrase “irreconcilable differences” has traditionally sparked the idea that divorce is imminent. It has meant that you and your spouse cannot agree on basic fundamental issues related to your marriage and your family. Dr. John Gottman, who is well known for his...
Anxious Feelings or an Anxiety Disorder? 5 Major Differences
by Linda K. Laffey, MFT Anxious feelings happen. They’re supposed to happen. They're normal. When your pulse races and your muscles tense, anxiety is doing what it should: Getting you ready to meet a challenge, or to step up to the plate. Totally normal. But...
Couples, Take These Steps to End the Never-Ending Argument!
By Linda K. Laffey, MFT When voices are raised, tensions are escalating, and feelings are raw, can you stop? Or does the bickering feel inevitable? Does it feel like life has become one really long, seriously exhausting, never-ending argument? Don’t give...
How to Keep Track of “You” in the Middle of “We”
by Linda K. Laffey, MFT Relationships can be all-consuming. And a lot of effort. With the right person, you can be tempted to throw yourself into the deep end of your love. But while you’re submerged in the relationship pool, it’s easy to get a bit...
The Many Faces of Abuse — It’s Not Just Hitting
by Linda K. Laffey, MFT Just because you don’t need bandages, an ambulance, or a first aid kit, does not mean you are not a victim of abuse. An abused person is simply a person who is dominated. Not one punch has to be thrown. All that is...
How EMDR Can Cut Your Therapy Time in Half!
by Linda K. Laffey, MFT The idea of therapy does not appeal to everyone. In fact, the idea of confronting problems and attempting to change them can be downright scary. Although one's depression may seem intolerable. Despite the leftover pain, shame,...
