A few days ago, I accompanied someone during an intake for mental health treatment. It wasn’t the experience I was expecting.
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Leaving A Legacy
You believe you’ve found everything in life. You’ve worked hard, established yourself, met all the criteria for ‘success’ and have the things most people spend a lifetime chasing.
Three Things You Can Do to Calm Anxiety Right Now
Anxiety is a big thing for most people. Unlike fatigue or a low mood, it creates its own unique kind of discomfort, affecting you in ways that other difficulties don’t. Anxiety plagues you, it disrupts sleep patterns, it’s not something you can distract yourself from with your favorite TV series or Netflix.
So, what can you actually do, right now, to calm it down?
What Now?
Everywhere we look, there seems to be something new to fear. Anxiety and instability are on the rise.
People ask, will AI take my job? What kind of world are my kids growing up in? What does the future hold for them, and for us? When will the wars stop? Why are we so divided?
Why Men Matter
I remember standing in a store when my daughter was a toddler, smiling at t-shirts that said “girl power” and “throw like a girl.” With only one child at the time, a daughter, I didn’t give it a second thought.
A few years later, I found myself in that same store with my son too. And I noticed something I hadn’t before, that there was nothing like that for him. No shirts, no slogans,and no celebration of boys. That small observation prompted a question I’ve been sitting with ever since.
Quitter’s Day
We are almost in February, and if your New Year’s resolutions are beginning to fade, you’re not alone.
We even have a name for it, ‘Quitter’s Day’, the day when many of us have already given up on our well-meant promises. This year, it fell on 9th January. So, if you’re still hanging in there, that’s a reason to celebrate.
Significant Change
The one thing we can be certain of in life is that change is inevitable, but not always welcome. When I speak with new clients, significant change is almost always happening in their lives. It’s often the reason they connect with me.
Why Do We Keep Looking Back?
We all have that one friend who seems effortlessly decisive, the one who makes choices without hours of agonizing over whether they made the right decision. I’m sure you know the type. I have a friend like that, a real superstar who constantly inspires me. But when I visited her recently, she looked tired. When I asked how she was, she admitted she hadn’t been sleeping well. She’d spent the previous night reflecting on her life choices, especially those she regretted or might do differently, given the chance again.
How to Find Belonging in a New Place
One thing I regularly hear from clients who move to San Diego, which applies to any new city, is how hard it is to make meaningful connections, or build an authentic community.
In today’s world of 24/7 connectivity, we might think the easiest thing in the world is to make new friends. So why is it so difficult?
It’s in our DNA
Discovering Empathy Through Trauma
“Get a grip…. aren’t you over it by now? ….Smile, things can’t be that bad… What is your problem?”
People navigating trauma often hear words like these from ‘well-meaning’ friends and family. The truth is, unless we’ve experienced some level of trauma ourselves, we may struggle to feel or express empathy.