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Childhood Issues
How Do Attachment styles from Childhood Affect my Relationships Today?
February 11, 2019

You may not know that every person has a certain attachment style and it is often developed early on in life based on the relationships with your parents or caretakers. Knowing the effects of these attachment styles can help...

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Grief, Trauma, & Loss
Grieving During The Holidays
January 21, 2019

5 Ways to Help Yourself Cope and Heal During This Season The holidays are a time when we can feel a renewed sense of personal grief over the loss of a loved one or the end of an important relationship....

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Helpful Articles
Managing Food Fears during the Holidays
December 24, 2018

Holidays mean a variety of things – family, friends, joy, parties, holiday meals, and even heightened anxiety if you’re struggling with food fear, body image concerns, or disordered eating. Gatherings that are centered on food can quickly create feelings...

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Mental Health
Music for Mental Health
December 17, 2018

When you need to focus on a project, must tackle a long to-do list of boring tasks, or just have had a hard day, you might crank up the sounds of whatever music inspires you. Music is a natural mood booster, and research now confirms that music not only influences our moods, but can reduce the negative effects of stress,...

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Couples & Relationships
To Trust or Not To Trust…. That is the Question
December 10, 2018

Have you ever passed up potential friendships and opportunities to be part of a group because you were afraid you wouldn’t be accepted, or you would wind up getting hurt?  Have you ever trusted someone too quickly only to...

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Helpful Articles
Finding the “We” by Holding onto Hope
December 3, 2018

Sometimes it can feel as though we live in a country that is becoming more and more divided. Turning on the news comes with an emotional assault and reminder that there is always an “us” and a “them”. More...

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Helpful Articles
Could Boundaries Actually Be the Best Way of Loving People?
November 29, 2018

I don’t know about you, but I always thought of boundaries as “selfish” or “harsh.” But what if boundaries are actually a way of loving people well? Bear with me here, what if the word “boundaries” is actually synonymous...

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Brittany Glaser
The Courage of Therapy
November 26, 2018

Therapy is hard. If you’ve ever taken those first steps through a therapist’s doors, then you know how heavy those steps can feel. Stepping through those doors means that you’re being willing to say that something in your life...

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Mental Health
More than your Diagnosis – Differentiating Between Mental Illness and Burnout
November 6, 2018

In recent months, I have noticed an increasing trend in some of my more “acute” clients. These are people who have been in therapy on and off for several years and have come to terms with their various diagnoses....

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Children
Executive Function and the Regulation of Emotion in Development
October 29, 2018

Mastery of the regulation of one’s emotions is a life-long process.  Psychiatrist Erik Erikson (1959) posited that humans must go through eight stages of social-emotional development as they mature into early adulthood and then on to later adulthood.1  Each...

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