EMDR Therapy for Performance Anxiety
Do you sing or act for a living? Are you sick and tired of nerves getting in your way? Would you like to feel free to enjoy being on stage? Do you want to stop worrying about what might go wrong? Unresolved Past If you answered yes to any of the above questions, and...
5 Things People Fear About Trauma Therapy and How to Overcome Those Fears
Thousands of people are what we call the “walking wounded,” those who live every day with unresolved trauma. Those who have experienced significant trauma usually find ways of coping with it, but many of these coping mechanisms aren’t healthy. Dealing with the trauma...
Fun and Relaxing Things You Can Do at Home to Relieve Anxiety
If you deal with occasional bouts of anxiety, you’re not alone. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, about 18 percent of U.S. adults have dealt with an anxiety disorder at some point. The good news? You can still make progress outside of the...
Do You Have an Eating Disorder? Ask Yourself These Questions
Just Google the phrase “Do I have an eating disorder?” and you’ll see many of the results are quizzes for screening purposes. Unfortunately, quizzes don’t address your worry or ease the anxiety that led you to consider your relationship with food in the first place....
Trauma, Your Limbic System and EMDR: What’s the Connection?
Trauma Many people experience some level of trauma at some point in their life. If you’re one of them, hopefully you were able to cope and move on. Perhaps friends and family helped you through a loved one’s death. Or maybe you sought therapy for combat trauma and...
Trauma Therapy: What is Somatic Experiencing?
Sadly, trauma can make your life miserable. From psychological shock to total body shut down, it can be an overwhelming experience that just never seems to go away. Maybe you have nightmares. Maybe you are unable to sleep. A great deal of emotional and physical pain...
Exploring Natural Treatments for Depression
The alarm drags you out of your dreams. You dread the thought of crawling out of bed, but you have to make breakfast, take the kids to school, and go to work. Somehow you manage to sit up. Only to stare at the floor. If you’re someone who has a hard time just getting...
5 Life-Changing Benefits of Trauma Therapy
Trauma can change your life. Often, in very bad ways. You may no longer function well. Your symptoms may be triggered by small, unforeseeable incidents. You may no longer feel like you know who you are. Trauma therapy offers deep, life-changing benefits to help put...
Couples Therapy
Old Communication Skills Aren’t Working? Couples Therapy Can Teach You New Ones! By Linda K. Laffey, MFT Every couple has their own way of communicating. When two people first meet, they often say they ‘clicked’. This early bonding is the result of a strong...
Body Image: Why Won’t Your Brain Believe What’s In the Mirror?
What is a mirror? A mirror is a simple household item. We all know it. We all look into it every day of our lives. Mirrors have been part of our lives since the day we were born. We know that the mirror reflects whatever is in front of it. A chair, a bathroom, a body....
7 Foods That Reduce Anxiety and Why They Work
7 Foods That Reduce Anxiety and Why They Work Many factors in your life can contribute to anxiety. A stressful job, money worries and family conflicts make it hard to switch off your stress response system. Add to that unresolved issues from the past, perhaps as far...
Eating Disorders: Anorexia – Perfectly In Control or Completely Out of Control?
Anorexia nervosa is a very serious eating disorder. Symptoms of anorexia can be very severe. They include extreme restriction of caloric intake, very low body weight, and a fear of getting fat. A distorted body image can lead to a rigid adherence to an extreme...
Relationship Help: Gratitude is a Powerful Force
Gratitude is a Powerful Force: 5 Amazing Ways It Can Change Your Life By Linda K. Laffey, MFT In 2003, researchers set out to learn more about gratitude. They wanted to know what impact it has on those who practice it. The subjects were three groups of young adults....
Anxiety Therapy – When Life Just Feels Like It’s Too Much!
Anxiety Therapy – When Life Just Feels Like It’s Too Much! Do you often feel overwhelmed? Is your “To Do” list, either at work or at home or both, growing out of control? Are family members putting demands on you that feel like pressure? Are chronic health issues...
How Do We Stop Fighting? Relationship Help For Couples.
Are you ready to stop fighting? Do you long for the days when you and your partner were happy? Do you remember how much fun you used to have? Do you recall laughing together often? What happened to those days? Where did they go? Why are we fighting all the time? How...
Relationship Help: Are We Wired for Suffering?
Are We Wired For Suffering? Do pain and suffering feel all too familiar? Does happiness seem like an impossible dream? Do you feel like you are struggling with one thing or another just about all the time? Would you like to experience less suffering and more joy? Our...
Trauma Therapy and Medical Trauma
Learning about Trauma Therapy and Medical Trauma can help you or someone you love. Perhaps you can relate to one or more of the following: You had a “routine” surgery that did not go as planned, and you are suffering with symptoms of anxiety or post-traumatic stress....
Relationship Help – How to Slay Self-Doubt
Are you not feeling good enough? Feeling unworthy? Battling obsessive negative thoughts over and over again? You Learned to Think and Feel This Way Perhaps you grew up with a critical and judgmental parent who let you know on a regular basis that nothing you did was...
Trauma Therapy: Trauma Healing
Here are some questions that will help identify a need for trauma therapy; Do you avoid group situations because you feel like you don’t fit in? Are you easily disturbed by relatively insignificant happenings? Do you isolate yourself because of lack of...
EMDR Therapy Works!
Are you suffering with residual shame, pain, or humiliation from physical or sexual abuse? Has depression taken over your life and continue to get worse? Do you have nightmares or flashbacks that are making your life seem unbearable? Does worry keep you up at night,...
