We’re all stressed out and it’s no wonder why. Our world has been blown wide open by advances in technology and although there are countless benefits, there are also some serious burdens. We’ve opened up our world and made it incredibly easy to communicate with anyone at any time, but we’ve also opened ourselves up to massive amounts of stress and worry. It’s important to find a way to protect ourselves in order to have a healthy and fulfilling life. 

Happy Pride Month! Throughout this blog, we are writing as a collective “we”. We note that there are those that are reading as a member within the LGBTQIA community and those that are reading as active allies along side the community. We, as a collective, can use this article to process, to reflect, and to restore from our feelings of unsteadiness.

Life changing transitions can span a wide variety of events including moving, beginning a new job, expanding your family, getting married, getting divorced, losing a loved one, or any other situation that requires you to adapt to a new normal. Some life transitions are wonderful and exciting; others are sad and deeply painful. The one thing that they all have in common is…

At different times during our lives, we will find ourselves in a place where we aren’t entirely sure who we are anymore. It may be a question about our values or beliefs, uncertainty about our desires and dreams, or a general feeling that we’re not the same as we used to be. 

We believe what we tell ourselves. The 'little voice' inside our minds is extremely powerful. This voice is present when we are children, and it's modeled after the voices of our parents and caregivers. In adolescent years, this voice….

We hear about boundaries all the time. We know we have to have them. We know we have to respect them. But do we actually know what healthy boundaries look like?

With all that’s happened in the past weeks, months…years, so many of us are feeling exhausted or burned out. Frequently feeling unsteady, overwhelmed, or unfocused almost feels ‘normal’ after living like this for so long. It can be difficult to see burnout when it’s happening, but once we name and acknowledge the signs and symptoms, we can begin to truly restore ourselves and emerge from the fog.

We were chatting with a friend one day, who told us he was feeling nervous about his plans for the evening. He explained that he was going out to dinner with a woman who he had been casually dating for a few weeks. He was planning to break things off, because it just didn’t feel like a good match. He told us, “This is…

Countless atrocities occurred yesterday, and the brazen hijack of our democratic process was the culmination of hundreds of years of systemic injustice and white privilege, brought to an apex of violence spurred by the false truths and horrific “leadership” of Donald Trump.

We are disgusted and horrified by the events that occurred in Washington, DC. We are stunned, but in no way shocked. We all deserve to live in a land that is free from white supremacy, racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and misogyny.

It’s that time of year - when the world falls in love, and all the Hallmark movies remind us that love is just “one trip back to our hometown” away. But like the winter snow, this can also be a time of year that is cold, somber, and even isolating. Even if we love the holidays, we would be kidding ourselves if we said that this holiday season was remotely “normal”. As we continue through the pandemic, many of us are looking for ways to deal with holiday blues, depression, and anxiety.

Difficult conversations can overwhelm and exhaust us, especially when we strongly disagree with the people we care about. Discussions of healthcare, racism, political misinformation, economic uncertainty, and isolation have been nearly unavoidable lately, and as we head into the holiday season, it’s about to rise to a whole new level. Many of us are feeling fear, or even dread, as we prepare for tough conversations that are likely to happen when we gather around the table.

As caring professionals, we are taught how to care for others in specific ways. We are taught to hold healthy boundaries, listen well, and feel deep empathy. In order to do this good work, we are told that our own “self-of-the-therapist” work is critical to providing care for others. Right now, it all feels impossible to do. Many caring professionals are close to burnout…if not already there.