May 11, 2021 | Child & Teen Counseling, Couples & Marriage Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
As Spring is beginning to break through, I realized how challenging it has recently been to create and maintain healthy outlets. We need to have outlets where we can get recharged. More recently all options for indoor recreation have been closed or severely limited....
Apr 9, 2021 | Couples & Marriage Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
Every sense I was a little girl I have had an obsession with dogs. I grew up with labs for most of my life and then when I became an adult, I owned Pitbull’s. In owning dogs, I started to see how much they experience and how much they help us humans. As I went through...
Apr 2, 2021 | Individual Counseling
Have you locked eyes with yourself in a mirror lately? Could you name your distinctive features, describe the emotions reflected in your expression, or observe the inner workings of your soul? Whether or not we take the time to notice these details about ourselves,...
Mar 25, 2021 | Child & Teen Counseling, Couples & Marriage Counseling, Individual Counseling
The English language generally uses the words sympathy and empathy interchangeably. The truth is that these words hold very different meanings from each other. The origin of the word sympathy is translated from German to “felling with” while the word Empathy...
Feb 19, 2021 | Couples & Marriage Counseling, Individual Counseling
In thinking about how best to articulate a clear response to this commonly searched question I discovered this great explanation from Colorado Christian University: “Nov 02, 2020 By Dr. Trent Langhofer Life, at times, can be overwhelming. Often, during overwhelming...
Feb 12, 2021 | Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
(Excerpts and thoughts on The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt) In 2014, Lukianiff & Haidt set out to understand what was happening on college campuses. However, they ended up telling a story of our strange and unsettling times;...