Little Gems
Growth and healing don’t usually happen in one grand transformation. Change happens little by little. In therapy, each insight and emotional shift moves us along the path toward your goals.
While a blog is not therapy, here I offer small gems of practical information and hard-won wisdom that I hope might spark an insight or emotional shift for you. May this help you on the path toward where you want to be.
The Emotions Series: Guilt vs. Remorse
Guilt will have us denying our needs and our inner knowing, but remorse will never lead us astray.
The Emotions Series: How to Sit with a Feeling
If we are not informed and intentional about how we sit with our feelings, we can end up just stewing in them and staying stuck, or ruminating and reinforcing a harmful belief.
Introducing The Emotions Series
Most of us, even those of us with the most loving and well-meaning caregivers and teachers, did not receive an emotional education. We learned to use a fork, to tie our shoes, to read and tell time. To share and to wait our turn. But not about the anger of having to share, or the frustration of waiting, or the embarrassment of being the last to read.