“Is there a way you can make the call while on vacation next week?” asks my colleague, “I’ll miss your laughter and contribution to group.” Immediately, I sense being attacked and ready to defend. I wanted to protect myself from feeling mortified and ashamed. Plus,…
There is a social stigma that counseling is for individuals who are broken, bruised, crazy or incapable of dealing with their issues. I’ve heard it for years that these are the people that need real help. The truth is, I have yet to meet a…
Currently, I experience a resistance to join the blog community without a neat bow to provide a thoughtful message. Many times a patient has attended a session believing there wasn’t much to say or even offer to me. Frankly, I empathize with this notion. Then…
In our last blog post, we touched on a few of the signs and symptoms that you may experience if your anxiety becomes a mental health disorder. With the amount of factors that go into anxiety, from the ways that it’s triggered by the way…
Face muscle soreness, shortness of breath, redden face, tears streaming out of the eyes, mucus running out of the nose, coughing, bladder threatening to release urine, and stomach muscle achiness. Does this sound like fun to you? When the traits of laughter are presented, it…
Anxiety is something that almost all of us experience at one point or another, but determining whether or not the anxiety that you’re experiencing is diagnosable as an anxiety disorder, or if it’s something that will in fact pass, is a little more difficult. For…