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By Ana Rogers, LGPC, NCC READING TIME: 3 MINUTES Hey there! How ya doin’? As we traverse yet another holiday season, this might be a loaded question for many of us. We might not even know how to answer. The chaotic to-ing and fro-ing this time of year is often all-consuming, after all. Maybe we […]
By: Ana Rogers, LGPC, NCC READING TIME: 5 MINUTES Hi friends! It’s been a while since we last chatted. I hope you’ve been taking good care of yourselves, especially with the fast approaching hustle and bustle of the holiday season. And speaking of holidays, understanding more about how our brains operate when engaged in conflict […]
By Ana Rogers, LGPC, NCC READING TIME: 5 minutes Hi again, friends! If you’ve ever been in session with me, you’ve probably heard me say something along the lines of, “What would it feel like to set a boundary here?” or “What do boundaries look like for you in this situation?”. One thing I’ve learned […]
By Ana Rogers, LGPC, NCC READING TIME: 5 minutes Hi hi! So glad you stopped by. You are not alone if today’s blog feels personally relevant. It also resonates with me. It took me a hot minute to settle on this topic, all thanks to the analysis paralysis that seizes my brain when I feel […]
At the end of May 2019, we wrapped up the first birth trauma therapy group here at Wellness & Co. For eight weeks, four mamas learned; developed relationships; processed through hurt, pain, abandonment, and anger; and worked on forgiving themselves for not making choices they might have made had they felt empowered to do so. It was a privilege for me to watch them work through their struggles together, especially as a survivor of birth trauma myself. It was amazing to watch a mother soften in her judgement of herself and also feel completely accepted by those around her, something that these women admitted to previously not feeling very often, if ever.
When I started seeing clients in Maryland five years ago I noticed that people often had the same comments or questions regarding the therapeutic process. They typically go something like this: “but you haven’t experienced [parenting] so you don’t really know what its like,” “you must have the perfect marriage,” “I didn’t want to come because people in therapy have real problems and ours isn’t a problem,” “I figured that if I came to therapy once a week something would change”
….these types of comments and more go on and on. In short, people think ALL sorts of things about therapy.
Do you ever feel like your relationship is stuck? Running on autopilot? Or completely thrown off course?
I get it, I really do. I want you to know that if you answered yes to any of those questions, you’re normal. Your relationship is totally, 100%, normal.
We all get stuck. We all let our relationships run on cruise control without the proper love and attention they need. And, we all let our partnerships run off course. All of us, even therapists.