Reading Time: 5 minutes What is Trauma? The human experience is an intricate journey that involves joy and pain, love and loss, relief and stress. In our complex world, times of stress become inevitable and many of us will face at least one traumatic event in our lifetimes. Trauma, […]
The Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Are you extremely sensitive to other’s emotions, maybe to the point of taking them on as your own? Do you find it hard to separate when someone close to you is feeling emotional pain? Can you pick up on the “vibes” of a room, place […]
Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma
Reading Time: 4 minutes A lot of my clients are what I fondly call “cycle-breakers”. These are individuals that come from a unique positioning in life of breaking the cycle of intergenerational trauma patterns that no longer serve them. These are brave souls who didn’t choose this role but […]
The Power of Intention
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Power of Intention “All great outcomes begin with intention” – Chloe Wordsworth, Quantum Change Made Easy When presented with a challenging life situation, it may be inevitable for us to experience a physical stress response, negative thinking, or anxiety. We become stuck in our […]
How to Stop Self Doubt
Reading Time: 6 minutes One of the most effective ways to stop self-doubt is to understand how gaslighting contributes to it. Most of us have heard of the term gaslighting, which means to be manipulated or undermined in a way that denies one’s reality of an experience or emotion. […]
Embracing the Grey: Finding Relief from Black-and-White Thinking
Reading Time: 4 minutes Feelings of Isolation and the Pitfalls of Black-and-White Thinking Many of us have felt left out, alone, or different at some point in our lives. It’s not only an uncomfortable feeling but can feel devastating when we believe we don’t have anyone there who we […]
Opening the Doorway to the Dark: A Beginners Guide to Shadow Work
Reading Time: 4 minutes Defining the shadow What follows you with the pull of the sun and stays with you even when the day is done? Allow me to introduce you to your shadow. While our shades typically only move with the presence of light, there may be some […]
Taking Things “Too” Personally
Reading Time: 4 minutes Breaking free from people pleasing: trusting yourself in a world that doesn’t revolve around you At some point in your life, you’ve probably said, overheard, or received the expression “the world doesn’t revolve around you”. In general, a fact, as it is our understanding that […]
“Forging Connections: Building Bridges in a Disconnected World”
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this age of advancing communications technology, do you find yourself feeling more and more disconnected from the people around you? Consider this, can you trace all of your current connections back to their source? If you can, it’s likely you’ll find that many of […]
Do You Have Healthy Boundaries?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Boundaries are extremely important in our relationships, and at the same time extremely difficult to navigate. Boundaries are defined as: expectations and needs that help us feel safe and comfortable in our relationships. Setting and living by expectations in relationships help us stay mentally, emotionally, […]
Congrats Grad!
Reading Time: 3 minutes How to Keep Limiting Beliefs from Holding You Back in the Next Step of Your Journey. Change is inevitable. We don’t always notice as it occurs in the passing of time and small shifts in the air. We often pay the most attention to it […]
The Psychological Immune System
Reading Time: 4 minutes As the velocity and stress of modern life is rising, more and more people are struggling with autoimmune disorders or chronic pain. At the same time, we came to believe that everything can be cured by pills and medical interventions and have created a dichotomy […]
Imposter Syndrome
Reading Time: 5 minutes Have you ever felt like you don’t belong? Like you are a fraud? Like any second people around you will figure out that you are not actually as competent as they think you are? If so, you are in the company of high achieving people […]
Being an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents
Reading Time: 4 minutes Adult children of emotionally immature parents are typically used to carrying a heavy weight or emotional responsibility for others since infancy; as such, it takes some painful adult experiences to make this burden conscious. How Do I Know if My Parent was Emotionally Immature? Emotional […]
Neuroplasticity & The Brain that Changes Itself
Reading Time: 4 minutes “The secret to change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates What is Neuroplasticity What is the connection between neuroplasticity and anxiety or depression? Can people really change the way they think? We used […]