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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 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 […]
By Rebecca Horch, BACYC, CPC READING TIME: 4 MINUTES We often hear phrases like “Practice presence,” “Be in the moment,” and “Always be mindful”, in therapeutic and spiritual spaces. But what does this actually mean, and how do you achieve it? Mindfulness and presence are transformative practices that profoundly impact your life. As Carl Jung […]
by Erin Newton, LCPC Part IV: “You can’t always be who you are.” Names, Society, and Racism Welcome back to our fourth and final installment of The Weight of the World: Being a Black Mom in America. If you’re new to the series, please go back and get caught up! You can find the other […]
by Dr. Kendra A. O’Hora, LCMFT Let me guess, you’ve seen an ad on Instagram or Facebook advertising the uber promoted tele-health and now you’re wondering what all the hub-bub is about?! Curiosity and interest in where the mental health world is headed and how that impacts you is completely normal (and, healthy!), especially during […]
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.