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When your child has OCD, seeking reassurance from you or others is an attempt to neutralize the threat of the intrusive thought. By providing reassurance, you are unwittingly engaging in the cycle of OCD and only providing temporary relief from their fear.
After a crisis, it is common to experience feelings of sadness, anger, fear, shock, numbness, grief, irritability and disillusionment. You may find that it is hard to leave your home, get out of bed, have a lack of appetite, poor sleep or nightmares, or find it difficult to concentrate or complete daily tasks.
Living with ADHD can often be viewed as a challenge, but tapping into some of your strengths because of it, can be rewarding.
What you need or want in a relationship can look different than your friend, sibling or co-worker. We all have different ways we feel seen or loved, desires, values, and deal-breakers that we hold for our relationships to be fulfilling.
Grief is a truly universal and human emotion. We will all experience loss at some point in our life.
Trauma is typically thought of as a single, significant life event. For many people, however, trauma consists of something repeated and prolonged.
Trauma is typically thought of as a single, significant life event. For many people, however, trauma consists of something repeated and prolonged.
Dealing with a faith transition from a high demand religion can be extremely difficult with many complexities, layers of emotions and various relationships involved.
Striving for excellence is not inherently bad but problems arise when the drive to be perfect becomes all-consuming.
When things are feeling unfamiliar after having a baby it can be difficult to know exactly what is going on.
Living in Utah, faith related concerns or faith transitions comes up more frequently in therapy.
If you’re asking this question, it’s likely you know you’re struggling in some areas in your relationship to food and body.
ADHD is a mental health disorder that impacts a person’s ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and execute complex tasks.
According to the Trevor Project, LGBT+ youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide than other youth.
Living in a thin-obsessed, diet driven culture, it can be hard to know what is disordered eating versus a full-blown eating disorder.
When I started my Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, I heard the term “differentiation” for the first time.
A common theme for a lot of my clients is feeling uncomfortable in their body, engaging in unhealthy behaviors to try to change it, and seeing it as the enemy.
When 2019 rolled around I was looking for a new quote for my letter board and this quote spoke to me…
While impulsivity is typically a normative experience in adolescence, those diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) typically engage in more risky and impulsive decisions than their peers. Due to increased risk of impulsive choices, the teen years can feel scary for parents as they may witness their child experimenting with alcohol and drugs, risky sexual behavior or other behaviors that put them at harm.