The Emotional Cost of Having to Prove You’re Hurting
While completing my culminating project for my Doctor of Behavioral Health, I interviewed many Black women about their lived experiences receiving medical care, specifically their retrospective experiences with perinatal and postpartum care. The participant I will focus on in this article has a robust history of medical treatment for medical…
The New Year
You’ve probably come across plenty of New Year articles, memes, and videos. Here’s another one, but I want to focus on intention, something I often write about on this wellness and healing platform. Many of us want change in our lives, but it can feel scary because change is uncomfortable.…
When Doctors Don’t Listen: How Medical Dismissal Can Fuel Health Anxiety
The voices of many can be heard in this blog. Not only have my own experiences and those close to me been a testament to this, but countless women have either fought to have their concerns heard or felt unheard, leaving the doctor’s office. Often, this is due to a…
Weathering the Storm
I recently was in a session where the client stated they were waiting for a sense of “normalcy,” where nothing in their life was happening. They felt that there had been constant events throughout the last year, which wasn’t normal. They mentioned the word “stability,” waiting to be stable.Often, analogies…
Self-Love Equals Self-Care
Looking forward into February, there are many different holidays, daily, weekly, and monthly. We observe Black History month, American Heart Month, and others. There’s Presidents’ Day, we get that day off as a bank holiday, Groundhog’s day and that is shared on February 2nd with Self-Renewal day. But noted, there…
The Good and the Bad
From the book The Women at Brewster Place, author Gloria Naylor writes “yea’ know you can’t keep him running away from things that hurt him. Sometimes, you just gotta stay there and teach him how to go through the bad and good of whatever comes.” This coming from a wise…
The Hand We Are Dealt
I once heard Amy Morin, LCSW, being interviewed on a podcast. She posed the following question: How do I live my life based on the hand I was dealt? Something to think about! With social comparison, social media and advertising efforts, many people are led to believe they are supposed…
What about today?
They say that when you focus on the past you may become sad. When you focus on the future you can create angst. Focusing on either prevents us from the things that are in the present moment. There is so much that goes on around us, can you take time…
Play Therapy for Adults?
I often find that when people hear about Play Therapy they think about playing and then the thought goes to children playing. We have many transitions in our lives. More specifically, going from childhood to adolescence to adulthood. As we get older we either say or hear people comment “that’s…
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