With high functioning anxiety and depression, people are excellent at pretending to everyone in their lives that they are okay. They will push themselves to meet their goals and to do what is expected of them in order to motivate themselves to continue.
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Our relationship with our career can be satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Our career coach is a reflection of ourselves at some level and who we are, thus it can create almost the same level of stress as a personal relationship can. We may actually spend more time pursuing work, rather than tending to family, creativity or…
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Last year, I was researching plant medicine for prolonged grief about the loss of my father some years back. It felt as if a rock was lodged in my throat, especially when I meditated. I knew I was holding some complicated grief. Counseling helped me understand that it was grief and I worked with some…
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Looking for something that gets you through tough times? maybe it is the last push you need to make prior to a major goal such as a big exam, final year in your degree or care for a critical illness. Maybe you notice symptoms of burnout such as chronic fatigue, listlessness, lack of joy, irritability…
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The place where we truly build ourselves looks far less dramatic than we may imagine. The deepest work we can ever do isn’t in a perfect space. But in a quiet simple space. If not in nature, then it may be in room with a few comfortable chairs, a meditation cushion or a soothing blanket. There are no actual demons, dragons or devils in a therapy room, except the ones in our minds. Some of the hardest work that anyone ever does is in this room, yet there is nothing there except the opportunity to feel feelings in a safe place.
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Protect From Negativity One of the most challenging aspects of being an empath (a person who easily is able to feel other people’s feelings/energy field) is that their mind may be more sensitive to what is going on around them below the surface, as compared to another personality. Empaths may have more of an emotional…
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