The Act of Active Listening
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This therapy blog serves to provide tips, tricks, and at home therapy techniques to try before accessing formal therapy or to compliment your current work in therapy.
Contact me with questions or to let me know how the at-home strategies are working. I'd love to hear from you!
Where your heart is, there your head will be also
/Mindfulness Tip:
Discontentment, resignation, and contempt are building blocks for disaster in a relationship.
It is not uncommon to see that these qualities initiated in one partner before it manifested w/in the relationship.
If you are feeling discontentment in your relationship, take some time to evaluate your current level of contentment at home, work, school, friendships, other relationships...
If you are in search for a therapist for individual, group, or couples therapy, I highly recommend using psychologytoday.com to help you in your search. Filters include zip code, treatment specialty, insurance coverage, cost, gender, age-range, areas of concern, etc. I use this site at least x3/wk to help find resources for clients or potential clients.
At home therapy: managing chronic conflicts
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Conflict management tip:
Every relationship encounters "stuck points" or conflicts that seem chronic or perpetual.
These are the conflicts in your relationship that seem to stem from the exact same root argument each time. This tip can bring balance back to the table, where both individuals can feel understood.
Eleventh-Hour Decisions
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Have fewer regrets over a (relationship, career, or home-life) decision that was made after a time of healing and restored hope than making a reactionary and impulsive decision out of a desire to escape, provoke, or disengage.
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