3 Things Every New Graduate Must Do
Congratulations to all the new graduates out there! Now that it’s been more than 20 years since I graduated from school, I want to give a few key pieces of advice for your new adventure. Keep in mind...
View Article5 Reasons to Celebrate an Anniversary
June is affectionately referred to as Wedding Month and for obvious reasons, many anniversaries are celebrated in June. An anniversary can give you a gentle reminder to think back on how far you’ve...
View Article4 Easy Tips to Deal with Change
It’s Inevitable! “Nothing stays the same forever” was my father-in-law’s mantra. He had plenty of evidence for that over a span of 94 years. It has become one of my favorite sayings as well. Reciting...
View ArticleLetting Go Without Guilt
While reading Dr. David Hawkins book Healing and Recovery I became fascinated with his premise that the experience of guilt is the root cause of disease. His definition of guilt is not the kind of...
View ArticleHow is Coaching Different from Therapy?
People sometimes ask me, “What is coaching, exactly? Is it kind of like therapy?” I say it’s like having a plumber or an electrician come to your house. They both work on the same building, but they...
View ArticleGrief Burnout After a Cascade of Loss, Part I
Clients sometimes think that as a professional you get exempt from loss and can circumvent the grief process. Not true. There is no exemption from loss and grief. I had six life changing events between...
View ArticleCan Anger Be a Healthy Emotion? Part 1
Learning to Understand Anger The philosopher Socrates suggested that an un-examined life is not worth living; I agree. Without introspection, without challenging your own beliefs in the face of...
View ArticleCan Anger Be a Healthy Emotion? Part 2
Read Part 1 of this blog. How Therapy Can Clarify and Diminish The Negative Aspects of Long-Held Anger There are many types of therapy available. Cognitive/Behavioral Therapy will help you identify and...
View ArticleA New School Year, New Beginnings
Time to Reflect Today I am on vacation and happily spending the day napping, reading a beach novel, making homemade guacamole, tending to my daughter’s splinter and bug bites and enjoying a gorgeous...
View ArticleWhat If You Don’t Ask for Help?
If you’re in the midst of a significantly stressful situation, then probably to some degree, you’ve considered services to help you manage through it. Do you ever play with the idea of instead of...
View ArticleThe Secret Life of a Therapist
Am I Truly Boring? All the things I could write about, I want to write about boredom. Once when I was 18 my father said, “If you don’t stop talking like this Natasha, people are going to think you’re...
View ArticleCommunication, Learn How to Speak Up, Part 1
Perhaps you’ve heard of the books by Erica Jong – “Fear of Flying” and her latest, “Fear of Dying”? Here’s one that needs to be written. Its title should be the Fear of Speaking Up/Danger of Speaking...
View ArticleCommunication, Learn How to Speak Up, Part 2
Part 2, Read Part 1 Changing your communication style The first step is to know that just being a human being, you are entitled to be heard. For that to happen, you must value who you are and your...
View ArticleFive Therapeutic Life Hacks
The upside to being on a fairly continuous ‘self-improvement’ plan is that I keep finding new ways and things to improve! The downside is often paralyzing self-doubt and harsh, internal judgment. So a...
View Article4 Steps to Help You Make Decisions
We make decisions everyday –some about our relationship, some at work, some just to guide ourselves, like “What diet should I follow?” Some of these decisions are easier to make than others, but their...
View ArticleHoliday Stress Relief, Blow Bubbles!
Do you remember the last time you blew bubbles? I do! At a gathering of several hundred professional women recently, little, purple plastic BUBBLE pots were found at the center of each table. During a...
View ArticleLife’s Traumas and the Power of Resilience
Surely you have heard that “Into every life a little rain must fall.” Well, for some of us these are not brief rain showers. They are more like hurricanes, and it seems just when you think things are...
View ArticleBanish Holiday Stress with Gratitude
Holidays are approaching and the feeling of stress and being overwhelmed rises up! Did you ever wonder if there was a way to get through the holidays feeling relaxed and balanced? This year was an...
View Article8 Ways to Transform a Lonely Holiday
Not everyone has family to celebrate with this holiday season. Some have family they need to avoid because of their toxicity. It could feel like a lonely time that would fill one with resentment and...
View ArticleThe Paris Attacks, the Holidays and Feeling Disenfranchised
The recent Paris attacks have made me think about what it means to feel disenfranchised. And why does that feeling lead some people to do unthinkably terrible things? This is a hard thing for me to...
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