Blogging about the helper’s high and risking sounding like a pretensious, “look at me” person, much less clincian, took some thinking. After a super mini teeny ego crisis, authenticity always wins in my book so here, we are. Like so many clients I’ve spoken to, early in my childhood my family was low income and […]
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“Do you think I’m ready to be done?” “How long should I be in therapy?” “How many weeks will we do together before I’m ready to move to biweekly therapy?” These are questions I get from clients from time to time. The answer? Deeply variable, a dialogue between clinician and client, but still led by
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Anxiety has a maddening way of robbing us of joy in any aspect of our lives, not withstanding intimate relationships. While some signs of strain and worry in relationships may indicate red flags, others are projections of our own unresolved traumas. Here are some common examples of the latter. 1. Anxiety ruins our ability
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Winter-over Syndrome No, just because you’re in New England doesn’t mean you have winter-over syndrome. Winter-over syndrome occurs for some who live in the Arctic, where winter is truly 7-8 months long. The harsh physical environment, plus isolation, can lead to a heightened version of depressive like symptoms as in seasonal affective disorder. With winter-over
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Stresses of Modern Day Life Father, provider, business man, friend, coach, emotional partner, and sex god. How many roles are you expected to fulfill as a man? If your body is under consistent stress, it over produces cortisol, human’s stress hormone. The building blocks of cortisol production are the exact same ones as those used
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Fear, when experienced constantly and in the form of true danger, abuse, or hypervigilant anxiety, can incapacitate us. Even if not at this extreme, many individuals I know and work with experience a fear inducing situation and hesitate to approach similar situations ever again. For example, plenty of men I’ve worked with get out of long
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Anxiety is used as a catch-all term today. Anxiety effects so many people in a variety of circumstances and across demographics, so a cogent argument could be made for the need to understand what the word actually means. The word anxiety comes from the Latin root word, angere, to choke or cause pain. What a
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