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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: Amanda Clegg, Relationship Coach, CLC, M.NLP READING TIME: 4 MINUTES As I sit here beginning to write this blog, contemplating how I want it to begin, a song keeps coming to mind that played a huge role in the inspiration for it. These words feel like the perfect way to introduce a topic that […]
Part III: Advocacy, Cultivating Awareness, and Providing Our Girls a Path Forward By: Rebecca Horch, BACYC, CPC You have made it to the final part of our series on ADHD in women and girls! If you have followed along thus far you will already have been given some valuable tips and tools on how to begin […]
Part II: The Empowerment of an ADHD Diagnosis By: Rebecca Horch, BACYC, CPC Welcome to part 2 of our 3 part series about ADHD. These posts are meant to inform and educate, and you may find that you connect with them, either on a personal level or because you have someone in your life who […]
Part I: An Undetected Journey By: Rebecca Horch, BACYC, CPC My Story – “Earth to Rebecca!” My 5th grade teacher used to yell this across the classroom when I would zone out during math lessons. I would snap out of whatever imaginative world I had entered and, embarrassed, pick up my pencil to doodle, at […]
by Amanda Clegg, Relationship Coach, CLC, M.NLP READING TIME: 5 MINUTES This statement always gets a laugh from my clients after they tell me they don’t like it, they’re afraid of it, or they don’t want to feel it. But I do, I reeeally love anger. And I’m not talkin’ about the explosive, yelling, swearing, […]
By Amanda Clegg, Relationship Coach, CLC, M.NLP Reading Time: 4 minutes Okok, the title “Fighting Is a Good Thing” might be a little strange to read but just hear me out… What I’m not saying is that constant conflict is a good thing, nor am I saying that I want you to be fighting in […]
Dear Reader, This author has only one pressing question. How do you respond to the betrayed, broken, fixated, and furious spouse demanding to know: “should I stay or should I go?” If you recognize the introduction of this blog, or read it with the exact tone of Lady Whistledown, then you are out from under […]
By Kyle Turner, LGPC READING TIME: 4 minutes I often encounter interactions like this during my intakes: Me: “What brings you to therapy?” Client: “I just wanna have a normal relationship. Be normal. You know, fit in.” Me: “And what’s ‘normal’ for you?” Client: … Clock: tick-tock Client: … Crickets: chirp chirp Now, it’s not […]
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.