Therapy for Showing Up Blog
Goddamned COVID
I remember the first time I heard about the Coronavirus. I was in my car listening to public radio and the broadcaster was interviewing someone in Wuhan, China. The young man was sharing how he couldn’t leave his apartment and the one time he had to go out to get cat...
Life Is Like A Trip Down The River
2021 marks the year that I celebrate 12 years working as a therapist and my 10-year anniversary of using EMDR as a healing modality. January always gives me an opportunity to reflect on my professional growth, including the evolution of the people and problems I am...
You Can Have the Relationships You Always Wanted: You Just Have to Start With Yourself
I read the book “The Vagina Monologues” over 20 years ago. I can’t even remember how it landed in my lap, but I do remember how I felt reading it. I felt awakened. I felt like the vagina stories these women told were my story, and they were my story, just as they are...
Get Moving, Feel Better
As I write this blog, the song “Celebration” by Kool in the Gang is running through my head. That song always makes me think and feel free. Like “woohoo, I did it!” And you did do it, you survived that horrific sexual assault. But this vinyl recording (if you remember...
You Left The Controlling Relationship. Here’s 6 Ways To Make Sure You Don’t Go Back!
This Article is Featured in YourTango When I used to work at a domestic violence shelter and I’d take calls on the hotline, it would take the caller some time to be able to find the words to tell their story. The word I waited to hear was “control.” Once I heard that...
Gently Visiting The Past
This Article is Featured in YourTango Have you ever had the experience in which you’re out with a friend and you’re having the best time? You’re both laughing at the outfit of the person next to you and reminiscing about that time you thought an outfit very similar...
Why Women Stay
I’ve been privileged to be gifted with the stories of survivors of domestic violence for nearly 20 years. I consider it a privilege, because for many of the women that shared their stories with me, it was often the first time they shared the story in such great...
Me Too…
Me too. When I awoke and started scrolling through Facebook Monday morning the first post I saw was a “me too” post from a friend. And then another and then another. I spent a good deal of the day checking to see how filled with me toos Facebook would be. I knew it...
Fear Is A Back Seat Driver
My intention with my new practice here in Asheville is to correct all the mistakes I’d made in my practice in Florida. Don’t laugh at me. I really am naïve enough to think that you can go back and fix stuff. Well, more accurately spoken that you can learn from the...
We Need Each Other
It seems to me that we are experiencing trauma at a rate that we have never been exposed to previously. This morning, the first thing I heard from my husband was that there was a mass shooting in Vegas. There was a time in my life that the phrase mass shooting would...
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