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Why Start Psychotherapy?

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Category: Psychotherapy and Recovery Work

Shadows of the mind. Light and darkness. Active and passive. More in our depths that we can develop and use than we know.

People usually come to psychotherapy for the first time because they are in pain, bewildered and because everything they knew about problem solving no longer works for them. Going inside their psyches seems like the last option. Even then, they do not know what to expect. At first, they want to know how long it will take to fix their lives.

This is a normal response when a person is plunged into an unrecognizable

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How Are You Holding Up? Depression, Anxiety, Eating Disorders emerging show us what we need now

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Category: Psychotherapy and Recovery Work

       We need our internal structure to hold, especially when we can't see ahead.

Values

We define ourselves by our personal values. We know who we are and live by our personal code. At least, that is what we convince ourselves.

But some of our values are what we wished we supported. Some of them are based on what we are told to support by respected others. And some of our values may be based on our fear of disapproval.

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Stability in an Unstable World: eating disorders during corona crisis

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Category: Psychotherapy and Recovery Work

This slackliner achieves stability from a developed inner sense of fluid subtle movement to maintain sustainable balance. We need that ability now.. Pix

The eating disorder system that gave you a sense of control and protection is drastically altered during this Corona Era.

When you have an eating disorder you have developed ways to rely on it when your feelings are too uncomfortable to bear and when disruptions in your life feel overwhelming. That’s what an eating disorder is for. It may cause havoc in your

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Making Your Bed: Big Healing Power in Small Steps

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Category: Psychotherapy and Recovery Work

Healing power of making your bed

Here is a gift to yourself: A welcoming bed offering you comfort, a reading choice and a snuggle blanket. 

I'm a psychotherapist. I often tell new patients about the value of making your bed in the morning.

They are often shocked that I would say something so mundane when the real issues were their anxiety or depression or relationship difficulties or their PTSD.

I respond that when you have such issues, making your bed in the morning is even more important.

Anxiety and depression affect your life at home, at work and everywhere you go because you are hiding.