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Read our therapists’ latest thoughts on a variety of mental health topics including blogs on anxiety, depression, LGBTQ+ issues, and more!

harboring guilt when hurting your partner

From Guilt to Shame: The Hidden Cost of Hurting Someone We Love [Video]

This video blog explores how harboring guilt and shame when you hurt someone you love can harm your relationship.

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Marijuana Leaves

Marijuana and Mental Health: Finding Balance and Wellness

Have you ever wondered the impact marijuana has on your mental health? Read this blog to explore the benefits and consequences of marijuana.

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Do I Have ADHD? How to Recognize the Signs

Do you ever find yourself asking, "Do I have ADHD?" Read this blog to learn about the signs of ADHD and what to do if you think you have it.

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childhood emotional neglect

Invisible Wounds: How Emotional Neglect Shapes Mental Health [Video]

This video blog explored how emotional neglect in childhood impacts adult mental health and how we can move toward healing.

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women experiencing misconceptions about bisexuality

5 Common Misconceptions About Bisexuality

Bisexuality is a commonly misunderstood sexuality. This blog explores the misconceptions about bisexuality and its stigma.

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kink community using toys

Where Are All the Kinky People? How to Find Your Kink Community

Curious about kink but feel like you’re the only one? Discover how to find supportive, like-minded people and build your kink community.

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learning how to focus

On Task and On Time: How To Focus in a Distracted World

Do you find yourself getting easily distracted? This blog teaches us strategies for how to focus and improve concentration.

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The DSM-5 Explained: What Your Diagnosis Really Means

Have you received a mental health diagnosis and wondered what it means? This blog explains how the DSM-5 defines mental health disorders.

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What is Therapy Like With an AEDP Therapist?

Curious about what is AEDP therapy? Learn how Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy helps people have deeper emotional connections.

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Aging Well: Tips for Maintaining and Improving Self-Worth as We Age

Do you fear getting older? This blog shares how we can age well and gracefully in a way that increases our self-worth.

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sex addiction

Am I a Sex Addict? Understanding the Signs and Misconceptions [Video]

Do you ever wonder if your sexual behaviors are healthy? This video blog will help you answer the question, "Am I a sex addict?"

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black queer representation

Tired of Tokenism: The Healing Power of Real Black Queer Representation

While media has expanded queer representation, this blog explores how it still falls short in showing the Black queer experience.

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ADHD Symptoms in Everyday Life: Navigating Home, School, and Work

Does ADHD make it harder to navigate your life? This blog teaches us about why we experience ADHD symptoms and what we can do to live well.

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When Trauma is Ongoing: Understanding PTSD vs Complex PTSD

Have you experienced long-term consequences of trauma? This blog helps us in understanding trauma and teaches us about PTSD and CPTSD.

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using change triangle for emotional mental health

The Change Triangle Explained: A Practical Guide to Emotional Health [Video]

The change triangle is a way to understand and process our emotional health. This video teaches us how to use it to improve mental health.

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how to manage your stress

How To Manage Your Stress

Unfortunately, stress is inevitable. So, what can we do about it? I’ve always thought a little stress can be good. It can help to motivate you, it can encourage you to perform better, and it can heighten your excitement about a task. However, it’s all

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shame

4 Steps to Combat Shame

Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are bad, wrong or broken and therefore unworthy of love and belonging. It is a universal emotion that we all share when something we have done or not done could cause disconnection with

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3 Skills for Validating Your Partner’s Feelings

In any relationship, communication is essential, especially to get your needs met and let your partner know how you feel. When it’s working well, both partners can feel loving, connected, and secure. But when you encounter defensiveness or misunderstanding, it’s easy to feel unsupported or

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storytelling

Finding a New Story: The Power of Storytelling

Everyone has a story, and that story is made up of many more intertwined stories. The stories you tell about yourself can change the way you feel, affect your relationships, and can impact your growth and progress. This blog will show you a way to identify and

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deep breathing

How to Relieve Stress by Deep Breathing

One of these simplest ways to calm yourself down when you’re feeling stressed, anxious, or scared is to focus on your breathing. It sounds so simple, yet we tend to forget to do it in the heat of the moment. Can breathing actually affect our

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how to understand your emotions

Make Friends With Your Feelings

How many times has someone asked you ”what are you feeling?” You answer, “I don’t know; I guess I’m fine.” Fine is really not a feeling. Our emotions have a physiological sensation. We sense them in our bodies and sometimes it’s difficult to describe what we actually feel.

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response to anxiety

The Surge: Understanding Your Body’s Response to Anxiety

Everyone experiences anxiety at some point in their lives.  Some of us encounter it more often than others and to differing degrees and intensity.  In fact, anxiety is a normal reaction to change, risk, new experiences or perceptions of threat.  Anxiety can be an uncomfortable

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dealing with transitions

5 Tips for Dealing with Transitions

Our lives are always changing: a new job, a new friendship or relationship, an illness, a graduation, or even the loss of a loved one are all different types of transitions.  Transitions come in all shapes and sizes.  A larger scale transition like a break

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how trauma gets passed along

How Trauma Gets Passed Along

“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.” -James Baldwin Trauma is defined as a distressing or disturbing experience resulting in an emotional response. This can include violence in your

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ways to manage your time

10 Ways to Manage Your Time More Efficiently

Why do we always feel like we can’t get everything done that we need to? No matter how hard we try, the to-do list never seems to end. Time management is a skill that so many of us struggle with in our daily routines. So,

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authentic self

Embracing Your Authentic Self

  From a very young age, each of us has been asked the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”  Instead, I prefer to ask, “Who do you get to be?” This is a more powerful question because our ‘beingness’ is

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meditation

Meditation: My Mind Won’t Stop!

In meditation classes, newer practitioners often ask the question, “How do I quiet my mind?” Following a practice, new students often comment, “My mind won’t stop!” Meditation is a practice of calming the body and mind using breath awareness. Meditation isn’t about stopping the mind, rather

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resolutions

Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work!

Every year when January 1st rolls around, you tend to hear two phrases: Happy New Year! Followed by the question, “What’s your new year’s resolution?” After all, what better time to change into a “new you” than a new year? According to research, about half

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Six Things Your Brain will Thank You For

Your brain is only about 2% of your body weight, but it uses about 20% of your energy every day. It makes sense to take as good care of it as many of us do of our bodies. Here are some things you can do for

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