Everybody has a story. Our stories consist of various chapters that span the course of our lives. The chapters range from gloomy to joyful, traumatic to transformational, and everything in between. Our stories are what constitute who we think we...
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Gary Chapman, author of The Five Love Languages, outlines five different ways in which we express and experience love that he calls “love languages.” Emotionally, we all need to receive love, but – as Chapman explains – our personal...
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As children do not always have the language to express themselves, their needs and stories are often best expressed via play. Landreth (2012) defines play as the universal language of children. Play has been observed in virtually every culture...
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Most people who are prescribed pain medication by a doctor take it initially for reasons such as easing post-surgery discomfort or dealing with pain related to diseases such as cancer or Crohn’s disease. The fact that prescription painkillers...
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Childhood trauma can be extremely impactful on neurodevelopment and can have lasting effects on mental health during developmental years into adulthood. For nearly two decades now, professor of Psychiatry at the Boston University Medical School...
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Childhood trauma can be extremely impactful on neurodevelopment and can have lasting effects on mental health during developmental years into adulthood. For nearly two decades now, professor of Psychiatry at the Boston University Medical School...
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Psychologist Amy Cuddy conducted an experiment to determine how non-verbal power poses impact how they are received by others and
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A well-known psychiatrist once remarked that Western humanity has turned from the priest to the doctor. Commonly, I see clients who are struggling with the meaning of their existence. This spiritual distress as I call it, can often be developed...
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What is your vision for life? What are you passionate about and what pulls your heart to move in one direction or another? Often when I see clients for vocational support they have lost sight of what they’re feeling passionate about. These...
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Individually we are designed and equipped to handle trauma because it is almost inescapable during a lifetime. Traumatic experiences resonate differently with each individual because we create our own perception of events. For example, for one...
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