I am entering my last week of training for a half marathon.  About a year ago, I decided that taking on this endeavor would be good for me.  Good for my body, good for my soul, good for my psyche.  In four short days, I will hop in the car…

The practice of intention setting sometimes gets a bad rap.  Many times, I have experienced people calling it weird.  They quickly tell me “it is not that I think that having a goal is a bad thing, but it is just that, like, meditating on it?  What the heck does…

If you have recently spent time with a teenager, you have likely heard them talk about how “triggered” they are at some point.  In fact, you may have even heard them say “hashtag triggered” in reference to an event, a noise, a person, a color, a thing, etc.  It has…

Behavior tells a story.   Have you ever been in a situation where someone has done something or behaved a way and you have thought “why on earth would you have done/said that?”  For that matter, have YOU ever done something or behaved a particular way and thought to yourself…

On my first day of Kindergarten, my teacher had drawn a huge map of the United States and put it up on the wall.  She gave each student a push pin and instructed each of us to put it in the place we were born.  Adorable, right?  It was intended…

At least once per day, I make the statement “behavior meets a need” when talking to clients, colleagues or even friends.  (my poor friends, they get therapy even when they don’t want it.  Sorry, pals!)  One of the reasons that I expressed interest in the workings of the mind and…

We, as humans, are a species that is hard wired for survival.  Our primal instincts, those automatic thoughts or behaviors that we have are intended to keep us safe.  I think that it is this process that is the birthplace of judgement and shame.  Hear me out, I do not…

In a previous post, I talk about my belief that we experience emotions in 4 ways-our body, our thoughts, our behaviors and our words.  I talk about this with clients nearly every day as a means for coping with distressing emotions because it provides a place to start.  If we…

I often have conversations, both professionally and personally, where people ask me for my opinion of “why kids have changed” or “what is the ‘problem’ with kids these days.”  These are such hard questions to answer because kids have not changed, the world has.  And the ‘problem’ is that we…