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It's Time to RESET: How Therapy Helps Feelings of Emptiness
If you’re wondering if it’s time for you or a loved one to see a therapist, you’ve come to the right blog. This is a part of my "It's Time to RESET," blog series, where I unpack the RESET acronym and talk about when it's time to pursue therapy. For this blog, I’m diving into what it’s like to experience feelings of emptiness and showcasing how therapy can help.
It’s Time to RESET: How Therapy Helps Over-Sensitivity
Welcome to the it’s time to RESET blog series, where I unpack the RESET acronym and talk about when it’s time for you or someone you love to see a therapist. For this blog, I will dive into what it feels like to be over sensitive and show how therapy can help. If you missed the opening blog and you’re interested in what RESET means, check out my previous blogs, (It’s time to RESET: Answering, “How do I know I need therapy?”) and (It’s time to RESET: How therapy helps restlessness).
It’s time to reset: How therapy helps restlessness
Welcome to the “It’s time to RESET,” blog series, where I unpack the RESET acronym to talk about when it's time for you or someone you love to see a therapist. For this blog, I will dive into how it feels to be Restless and show how therapy can help. You know that guy at the circus twirling plates above his head as they delicately balance on the end of a stick? Being restless feels something like that. Most things in life feel like one of those plates, constantly spinning, and if you don’t focus on it, it will fall and break on the ground. But there isn’t just one plate. There are several.
It’s Time to RESET: Answering, “How do I know if I need therapy?”
Few people feel like it’s time to see a therapist and get help. Often, we think, “I’m not suffering enough to see a therapist.” We feel like if we just had our shit together, we could handle whatever is causing us pain, so we should try to help ourselves first. But that couldn’t be farther from the truth.
How do you know if you need therapy?
It can be hard to identify if you or someone you care about needs to find a therapist when you don’t know what to look for. I use this handy acronym to identify if someone needs to start therapy to make it easier.
3 Ways to Increase Self Respect
So many of the clients I work with want to feel more confident and worthwhile, but they don’t know where to start. Sometimes, we feel like we could love ourselves instantly if we just did the right thing. In reality, we have to take time to build up our relationship with ourselves by learning what we need and earning our own respect. To help you build your relationship with yourself and feel worthwhile, here are three things you can fold into your routine to help increase your self-respect.
Five Ways to Manage Your Stress
Stress affects us on a deeper level than we often recognize. We feel it in our bodies, tightening our muscles and draining our energy. It comes out in our relationships with us accidentally snapping at loved ones and even hurts our relationship with ourselves.
The key to managing stress is making life changes that help us have a better mindset. So here are five practical, ‘wow, I can actually do these things’ kinds of steps you can take to feel less stressed.
How to Create Healthy Boundaries in Three Steps
Let’s face it, people can be scary. Saying, “I am changing my boundaries and need you to accept that,” is an intimidating prospect to say the least. We might worry that we’ll disappoint someone, that they won’t accept our boundary, or that they won’t take us seriously.
Luckily, it isn’t up to others what our limits are. It’s up to us, and to truly start creating healthy boundaries, we need to communicate them.
Breaking Up with Burnout: How to Stick to New Year’s Resolutions
The idea behind New Year’s resolutions is so appealing: It’s the perfect time to make big life changes! What better time to change our bad habits to healthier ones than at the beginning of the year, right?
But, making lofty resolutions that end up with a shorter shelf life than leftover Christmas cookies is a cliché for a reason: we tend to burnout before February rolls around.
Why do we drop our New Year’s resolutions so fast? Our bodies and brains hate change….
Managing Holiday Stress by Overcoming the Perfect Christmas
So many of us associate this time of year with holiday stress. Let’s be honest, how many of us both loved and loathed Thanksgiving preparations? It's only one day, but many of us worked as early as the weekend before to get ready.
Christmas is up next, and the pressure is on. Holiday joy gets taken over by searching for the perfect Christmas present, preparing to host our extended families, traveling, and pressuring ourselves to make this year worth the wait after quarantine Christmas last year. So whether this is your first Christmas trying to go ‘back to normal’ or you need to do another quarantine Christmas, this holiday season has more pressure than past years it seems, and those weren’t a cakewalk either.
That’s a big burden to bear… so don’t. This year, it’s time to let go of the mythical, ‘perfect Christmas.’
Why is change so hard?
Change is one of the only constants in the universe. But if that’s so, why does it seem to be so challenging when we desire it so much? Take your New Year’s Resolutions as a prime example. Maybe you set a goal to lose weight, or to meditate more, or to spend/save money. How long did that last? A few of us make a goal and stick to it when we set out to do the thing. But the majority of us? We are good for a bit and then we resort to old patterns and find ourselves in the same routines. This can be frustrating and downright defeating. Have you ever thought to ask “why” change is so hard? The answer…