Aromatherapy: Make Your Own Flower Essences
Updated January 3, 2022 Aromatherapy: Make Your Own Flower Essences Think of flower essences as the Reiki of the plant world, as they ...
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Meditation for Boundaries: Blue Circle of Fire
Originally posted August 6, 2019. You are busy! The office is humming! Things are totally running amok today! The phone is ringing and...
Five Sweet Ideas for Remembering Someone You Love
You hopefully have plenty of lovely people in your life. Friends and family can be an amazing support network when it comes to dealing...
Co-parenting Through Divorce: Part One: Finding Strength Within as You Redefine the Self
As you go through your divorce, do you think you are acting out your unconscious hurts and anger on yourself and others, possibly your...
Complexity of Marriage Therapy, Part Two: Dr. John Gottman and What Predicts Divorce?
Today we’ll examine one aspect of Dr. John Gottman’s work. He provides clear, evidence-based information distilled from his many years of...
Self Care During Therapy – Positive Energy Bubble
Positive energy bubble is a simple mindfulness technique to preserve your positive energy when you're in the thick of it at work
Lovingkindness Meditation
For today’s world…sending out lovingkindness energy to all living beings. Loving-kindness, Metta, is the Buddhist meditation practice...
What is Reiki?
Reiki literally means universal energy. Reiki is a system of healing using the human energy field. Reiki is being studied more...
Valentine’s Day: Lavender Rose Body Butter
Updated February 14, 2022 Is there anything more beautiful, relaxing and intoxicating all at once than standing near a real lavender...
Beeswax to Oil Ratios for Salve
Updated January 5, 2022 I’ve been making salves for my friends and family for a few years now. And I am still just winging it as far as...
How much stress in pregnancy is too much?
Deep listening is deeply healing (istock/izusek)
Hire a postpartum doula to help in the fourth trimester
What is a postpartum doula? A postpartum doula is a woman hired to “mother the mother” after childbirth. Sometimes postpartum doulas say...
PTSD, Flashbacks and Post-Traumatic Growth
One day, Dave was having a quiet day in his workshop. He was working on his model trains, his favorite hobby. He was looking at the...
#SuicidePrevention – We Love You
I guess you all know by now that the two celebrities, Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, took their own lives this past week. Of course,...
DBT ABC PLEASE Skills of Emotion Regulation (Part Two)
The ABC PLEASE skills are the first floor in the house of happiness. Think of the ABC PLEASE skills as extreme self-care, to help you manag
DBT – ABC PLEASE Skills of Emotion Regulation (Part One)
The ABC PLEASE skills are the first floor in the House of Happiness. Train yourself to develop habits of joy and contentment.
DBT Emotion Regulation Skills
The Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) section of Emotion Regulation educates about emotions and provides skills to manage strong emotions
Attachment Theory and Good Enough Parenting
Originally posted May 8, 2019. Attachment theory is a complex, broad theory that encompasses human, primate and mammalian behavior. It’s...
Maternal Mortality and Birth Trauma: A Call for Woman Centered Birth
Originally posted April 22, 2019. In my work as a perinatal psychotherapist, I have had the honor of hearing many women’s oral histories...
Expressive Art: Birth Trauma – Bead Your Story
Originally posted April 9, 2019. A traumatic birth can be physically and emotionally devastating. Social support for those going through...
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