Parenting issues God (or the higher power you believe in) must have a sense of humor. How does the hardest job around come with no instruction manual?! Talking about being thrown in the deep end of the pool! Parenting is one of the toughest and…
Once I had a question from a family member—when do you know to see a therapist? I think I was still in a Christmas ham stupor to give much of a comprehensive answer. We often think it is the garden variety of anxiety and depression,…
One of the chief reasons for being dysregulated (fancy way of saying stressed, anxious, angry, quick triggered etc.) is that we do NOT accept whatever situation in life that we do not like or want. But you may be thinking, “nah, I don’t want to…
We have all done it. Some stimulus (event) occurs, or someone close to you did or did not do something they were or were not suppose to have done. I would say the obligatory “wait for it” but generally speaking we don’t have to wait.…
As the mid 90s hip hop classic Warren G song said, “Regulators– Mount up!”. This series is about how we can increase our ability to regulate ourselves when we get dysregulated. Or the street term – Pissed off! Or anxious, overwhelmed or stressed. If you…
Should statements are rigid rules a person has regarding how things should operate, or how people ‘should’ feel or think. I know we all have that friend (or it could be you) that may say, “they should just do X or Y” or “things should…