5 Tips To Navigate Life’s Transitions

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5 Tips To Navigate Life’s Transitions

Life transitions are significant shifts that we experience as we move through life. Some transitions are planned and tend to evoke positive emotions, for example, going to college, marriage, or childbirth. Despite their positive connotation, these transitions can also generate anxiety and stress. Other transitions, such as changes in one’s health status or relationship status, loss of a job, or loss of a loved one, are often unexpected and can be more challenging to navigate.

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Making Meaning through Narrative Therapy 

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Making Meaning through Narrative Therapy 

Many of us have a story that we tell ourselves about why we are the way we are. This story in our minds is our own personal narrative that gives meaning to our life. As we learn through each moment (especially those significant moments in life), our idea of self is built through our own bias of experiences. Meaning making on our journeys can help create a sense of purpose.

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How Do We Identify Our Needs?

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How Do We Identify Our Needs?

So often when we are feeling frustrated in life with our jobs, families or other relationships, we end up feeling the same thing over and over again but aren’t able to identify in those moments what is familiar. Because of this, we can tend to either ignore those feelings and begin to have a pattern of dealing with that person or circumstance that often leads to feeling those same feelings over and over again without any real resolution or positive outcome. I often talk to clients that knowing how to express and communicate the change we need to feel or see is the first step towards moving into a new pattern of communication.

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5 Ways To Compromise Your Mental Health

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5 Ways To Compromise Your Mental Health

That title got ya, didn’t it? We typically expect to learn how to feel better, not how to feel worse! But, I thought this “how NOT to” might catch your attention enough to get you to recognize some things you might be doing to sabotage your mental well being.  Or, maybe this post will get you to think about your mental health in a different way.

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7 Ways to Resolve Conflict by "Fighting Fair"

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7 Ways to Resolve Conflict by "Fighting Fair"

Who out there avoids conflict as if it were a death sentence? I would estimate that at least half of my clients struggle with assertiveness – a way of communicating and advocating for themselves in a respectful and honest way. It seems they see no difference between assertiveness and aggression. Aggressive communication is not respectful, often involving making demands of others without listening to them and threatening or attacking the other person.

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