Love & Power: Making Sure Your Relationship Remains Fair and Balanced
After the bliss of the honeymoon phase passes, relationships often shift to what often proves to be a challenging era. This period is typically known as the power struggle stage. It’s characterized by the removing of one’s rose-colored glasses, so to speak. For...
How Intrusive Thoughts Feed Your Eating Disorder
When you struggle with an eating disorder, your internal trouble runs so much deeper than simply having a negative relationship with food. In fact, food might even be your second nemesis. The first? Your own mind. Intrusive thoughts feed your eating disorder in a...
Co-occurring Conditions: How EMDR Helps When You Suffer in More Ways Than One
Events in your past might feel like a pile of dirty laundry in the corner of your mind. Not only does this “laundry” crowd your personal headspace, but it also emotionally weighs you down. Sometimes to the point where you can’t function like you want to. When you...
6 Ways to Support a Loved One Healing from Emotional Trauma
When someone you love endures emotional trauma, it can feel as though you’ve been hurt, too. The natural tendency is often to offer your loved one what you feel you would need. Though this approach is heartfelt, it’s not always the best one to embrace. The reality is...
Why Anxiety & Procrastination Go Hand in Hand
People who procrastinate are often labeled “lazy.” In fact, they are usually the least lazy people among us. This negative label only looks at procrastination in one light. In this light, its face value is shallow, superfluous, and an “easy fix.” Except that it’s not....
5 Ways to Encourage Your Therapy Resistant Partner
You’ve likely heard the saying that it “takes two to tango,” right? The same goes for couples therapy. There is much to be said of individual therapy, as it can also benefit your relationship. But couples therapy is meant for two people – two willing participants....
What to Know if You’re Battling an Eating Disorder Later in Life
Many people attribute eating disorders to young women. In magazine articles, self-help books and support groups, female teenagers and early twenty-somethings are offered a vast amount of treatment options and attention. Support for those outside of that age range and...
How EMDR Helps Identify Core Beliefs
Do you feel ungrounded some days? Does it seem like others know exactly who they are and what they believe while you go back and forth? Have you ever wished that you could possess stronger convictions so that the world knew without a doubt what you were all about? If...
Take These Steps to Cope with the Trauma of Sexual Assault
Experiencing sexual assault can make you feel like a dark cloud has descended upon you. You might even feel powerless or like you’re not in control of your own life. These negative feelings are trauma at its core. Enduring sexual assault can cause you to experience...
Anxious on the Job? 6 Tips to Ease Workplace Anxiety
Many people admit they don’t go to work because it’s pleasurable. Even in fulfilling careers, most people are employed simply because they need the income. What you don’t need or want in your life is the anxiety that often stems from a work environment. The...
Valentine’s Day: 5 Ways to Build Emotional Connection Instead of Unrealistic Expectations
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, it’s likely that you’ve got love on the brain. After all, the department stores aren’t about to let anyone forget this holiday! The fluff that often surrounds this romantic season can sidetrack many couples. In fact, it...
How to Be Sure Your Weight-Loss Goals Don’t Support an Eating Disorder
Having a perfectly healthy relationship with food is more than most people can claim. But if your relationship with food and body image has been affected by an eating disorder, then you know all too well how dangerously unhealthy life can become. Losing extra weight...
Trauma Triggers: How to Regain Control of Your Emotions
Experiencing trauma can rob you of your emotional freedom. So much of the time it can feel as if someone else is in control of your emotions. This is neither a fulfilling nor healthy way to go through life. Happiness, emotional freedom, tranquility–these are all...
5 Ways EMDR Can Benefit Your Relationship
Couples typically separate because they feel unable to resolve their relationship issues. Maybe you have been feeling like you’ve even “talked it out” as much as you can with no resolution. Rather than throwing in the towel just yet, try a different approach. A more...
How EMDR Helps Heal Guilt and Shame
Dealing with trauma is a whole-body process. It’s not the kind of thing you sit and talk about for 20 minutes, and then walk away able to forget the traumatic experience. More often than not trauma survivors are bombarded with an array of negative emotions. Guilt and...
Anxiety Can Make You Physically Sick – 9 Signs of Excessive Stress
Many people think that anxiety and excessive stress only impact the mind. But your body and your mind are so intertwined that anxiety can actually make you feel physically sick. In fact, it’s not uncommon for people to misinterpret the symptoms of anxiety for a simple...
Ways to Make Your Mental Health a New Year Priority
As the year winds down and the holiday rush starts to slow, a new priority might fill your mind. The new year. Now is the time that most of us start to think in terms of the big picture, as opposed to the intricate details of holiday planning. Even if you’re not into...
Why Generosity is a Soothing Gift to the Anxious Mind
‘Tis the season for joy, compassion, generosity, and… Anxiety. As the end of the year approaches, you are likely busy celebrating the holidays with loved ones and doing a mental recap of the entire year. From this yearly round-up, you’re probably deciding on what...
How To Maintain Your Eating Disorder Recovery During the Holidays
Having a painful relationship with food changes everything when the holidays roll around. Rather than creating joy, the festivities of the season often bring on a feeling of dread. It’s likely you’ve made leaps and bounds in your struggle with an eating disorder. So...
Do Family Gatherings Bring Back Painful Memories? EMDR Can Help
It’s hard to enjoy the here and now when your brain keeps bringing up the painful past. Especially at a family gathering. Maybe you’d like to enjoy family functions, but often end up feeling uncomfortable. You might have even excused yourself from the dinner table...
