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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

    What is Mindfulness? Feel the ground underneath your feet and the seat beneath you. Notice the placement of your hands, lengthen your spine, tuck your chin slightly, soften your jaw and lips, and relax the space between your brows. Now start to focus on...

5 Ways to Emotionally Prepare for the Holidays

5 Ways to Emotionally Prepare for the Holidays

   My professor made a poignant remark during the days leading up to the fall and winter holidays that had the entire class laughing at the accuracy and relatability of the observation. He shared that the holidays are a humbling time for personal growth because...

Am I too much?

Am I too much?

  I confess that one of my pastimes is watching The Bachelorette. If you watched this season, you might have noticed many conversations about the contestants’ personal experiences with therapy and how much they’ve gotten out of it. As a therapist, I appreciate...

My Five Favorite Self-Care Practices

My Five Favorite Self-Care Practices

    Throughout my adult life, I have continually sought to connect with my intuitive nature and cultivate grounding and mental clarity. These 5 practices have supported me in deciphering my intuitive voice from my ego voice. If they aren’t already part of...

Coping with Covid, flus, and colds

Coping with Covid, flus, and colds

  Flakey pie crust bakes in the oven and the aroma of cheese and tarragon wafts around me as I sit in my kitchen nook at sunset. Since childhood, the veggie pot pie has been one of my favorite dishes. I am instantly comforted whenever I smell it cooking in the...

Languishing & Post-Covid Stress Disorder

Languishing & Post-Covid Stress Disorder

Languishing & Post-Covid Stress Disorder I miss how I experienced my life Before The Pandemic or “BTP”. These days, my concept of time sometimes revolves around BTP and life After The Pandemic, or “ATP.” And even with BTP and ATP,  my subconscious mind denies...

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