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.
How to Love Someone Well When They’re Grieving
Let’s not let uncertainty or self-consciousness stop us from showing up for the people we love or care about.
Object-Trace Cells and the Grieving Brain
“If someone close to us dies, then, based on what we know about object-trace cells, our neurons still fire every time we expect our loved one to be in the room. And this neural trace persists until we can learn that our loved one is never going to be in our physical world again.”
Anniversaries of Loss and Trauma: The Body Keeps the Calendar
As the anniversary of a loss or a trauma approaches, it’s often the case that our bodies register the signs before we consciously take note of the calendar.