Is Passive Aggression Crippling Your Communication?
While it is relatively easy to spot passive aggressive behavior in others, it might be more difficult to recognize it in yourself. It’s true that passive aggression seems to sulk down in the corner at times, but it’s not without telltale signs. In fact, how you...
How to Keep Anxiety from Hijacking Your Holidays
Maybe you’re not truly an all-out grinch, but that is exactly how you might feel once the holiday bells start jingling. There is a reason, though. You probably aren’t sporting an onion stained smile just for kicks (like Mr. Grinch). No. Your reason has seven letters...
How to Regain Passion and Positivity after Trauma
Is your traumatic experience lingering over your head like a dark rain cloud? Maybe it’s hard to find joy in activities you used to love or it might even be difficult to see the good in life anymore. This type of negative thinking is indeed the work of trauma....
Winter Blues & Issues with Food? What You Need to Know
As the seasons change from warm to cool, it’s not uncommon for your outlook to change as well. In fact, the winter blues are known for causing a mood drop in nearly 15 million Americans. If you’re one of them, then you know how frustrating it can be to cope with...
Grief Relief: How EMDR Can Help You Cope with Loss
Though we don’t like to think about it, grief is a natural part of life. However, it does mean that a loss has occurred, and the pain that comes with the grief process can sometimes be difficult to facilitate without help. In fact, aside from typical grief, some...
Small Relationship Gestures that Pay Off Big
Your long-term relationship is likely a significant part of your life. So significant, in fact, that the union may seem self-sustaining and rock solid as you move through life managing more pressing responsibilities together. However, it is important to realize that...
Cancer, Heart Attack, Tumor? How to Manage the “What If’s” of Health Anxiety
The unpleasant presence of disease is everywhere. Or at least it seems that way. In our information age, the daily deluge of articles, studies, news reports, and relentless commercials about this degenerative condition or that newly diagnosed malady can be frightening...
Hurricanes, Quakes and Floods: Coping with the Trauma of Other People’s Pain
Carol was crying. Really crying as she watched the screen. She thought about the people wading in the waist-high water. She felt physically ill when she heard the newscasters mention the people trapped, the homes lost and how things would never be the same. Carol...
10 Easy Ways to Boost Your Body Positivity
Have you had enough of the negativity that plagues your perception of your own body? Do you wish you could look in the mirror and see whatever it is you see without picking yourself apart? Do you always find yourself on the low end of an increasingly unrealistic...
Why EMDR Should Be a Part of Your Chronic Pain Treatment
If you live with chronic pain, you know on some level, that your suffering is connected to more than just physical damage, symptoms, or problems. It’s deeper than any of that. Your emotions feel inexorably tied to and woven into your pain. The way you think seems...
5 Signs You’re Being Taken for Granted (& What to Do About it)
“A relationship is a privilege, not a chore. Love should be appreciated, not taken for granted.” – Trent Shelton You know something is wrong when you feel like part of the scenery of your partner’s life. Perhaps conversation is limited. Maybe he or she doesn’t notice...
How to Let Go of Perfectionism and Embrace your Mistakes
You keep your standards high. You reach for the stars. You set lofty goals. You want to be the best. All the time. And you don’t want to make any mistakes getting there. So, you beat yourself up every day for not being able to make your plan for perfection happen....
Alone with PTSD? What to Do When Loved Ones Don’t Get It
The darkest days of your life are often the most traumatic. And lonely. If your trauma is compounded by symptoms of post-traumatic stress, the pain and confusion can seem too much to bear. But heap on to those struggles a lack of understanding from the people you care...
Too Healthy for Your Own Good? Recognizing & Coping with Orthorexia
We all want to be healthy. Some people want to be healthy so badly that they simply cannot stand the idea of eating anything but the cleanest, most whole, most organic foods. And when you can’t have the healthiest foods? They don’t eat at all. A practice that is...
How EMDR Can Help When You’re Feeling Stuck or Unmotivated
Are you getting in your own way? Do you wonder why you sabotage your own goals? Have you avoided new risks and challenges because you fear failure? Are you stuck idling when you long to finally get moving along your life journey? What can you do to turn things around?...
Research Reveals Why It Really is Possible to Change Your Life for Good!
What if you were brave enough to make the changes you’ve been longing to make? What if you weren’t afraid or skeptical or slow to move? And what if you were to become completely content, more confident, and closely connected to the people that matter to you? Sounds...
How to Cope Compassionately with Your Partner’s Panic
When your partner talks about it, they use words like “dread,” “suffocating,” or “escape.” And you try to imagine how a normal room full of people can inspire such fear. Or how nothing at all can all of a sudden become a moment fraught with tension and panic. It’s...
5 Good Reasons to Give EMDR Therapy a Chance
You want to stop suffering. Isn’t that why you’re considering therapy? You want to stop hurting, to understand why you hurt and to interrupt the hurtful way you may have related to others. Simply put, you’ve been hurting too long. Now may be the time to change the way...
Red Flags and Warning Signs: 10 Really Good Reasons to Rethink Your Relationship
Some relationships require reassessment. Doubts creep in. Interactions become a cause for concern. When red flags wave and warning lights flash persistently, it’s best to pay attention before running ahead into heartache or disappointment. Consider these 10 solid...
Subtle Signs of Emotional Trauma You Might be Missing
Do you know the full legacy of the emotional trauma you suffered? Perhaps you feel you’re very tuned in and aware of how you are affected. If that’s the case, good. You will find more relief when you can readily acknowledge your suffering. But, sometimes we just can’t...
