Resolving Conflict

The Trauma That Remains – – 8 Ways We Can Let Go of Childhood Bullying

The Trauma That Remains – – 8 Ways We Can Let Go of Childhood Bullying

Trauma that we’ve experienced can sit with us for a long time. The feelings of fear, guilt, anxiety, depression, low self worth, paranoia, feeling

Work-Related Trauma—How Does it Affect Your Life?

Work-Related Trauma—How Does it Affect Your Life?

Many stay in toxic jobs because they feel they're being paid well. They feel their

Mental Health and The 2020 Election—Can We All Find Happiness?

Mental Health and The 2020 Election—Can We All Find Happiness?

When COVID hit, I started taking walks. It was during my walks that I had my first smile from seeing a Happiness sign nailed to a utility pole on 38th Avenue North in St. Petersburg, Florida. With a beautiful purple Jacaranda tree blooming in the background,

Trauma—6 Tips to Help Us Overcome Oppression and Adversity

Trauma—6 Tips to Help Us Overcome Oppression and Adversity

Since the start of the current pandemic, and in the recent years preceding it, world events have been bleeding into therapy sessions. With more recent events, things are bleeding even more, including many of our hearts. We’ve been

Your mental health communicated —It can be a wonderful life!

 Your mental health communicated —It can be a wonderful life!

Sometimes we can misunderstand where someone is coming from. Different cultures are different. The way people express things can sometimes make us take a step back—let’s try to understand.

Your inner child – – How it can tell you what you need

Your inner child – – How it can tell you what you need

If you’re not familiar with the concept of your inner child, it’s your original or true self.  It’s that self that is you before life happened.  It’s you before

A Counselor’s Review On Revenge—Done right

A Counselor’s Review On Revenge—Done right

We may have been, “stabbed in the back” or feel like we’ve been wronged.  Someone may have gotten the promotion at work that we were aching to get.  We could have been cheated on in a relationship, or just been, “done wrong”. 

A Counselor’s Review—Your relationship bill of rights

A Counselor’s Review—Your relationship bill of rights

In our graduate school program, It was recommended that we, “sit on the other side of the sofa” for at least a year.  This was to give us the benefit of what it would feel like to

A Counselor’s Review on Toxic People—Don’t let them in!

A Counselor’s Review on Toxic People—Don’t let them in!

We’ve deleted and blocked people on social media.  We’ve had arguments within our families.  We’ve lost friends, and we appear more divided than ever. It seems like everywhere we turn, there is something that is less than positive. 

Couples Counseling—“I’m proud to make my wife dinner."

Couples Counseling—“I’m proud to make my wife dinner."

I was in the middle of writing this article, and ended up talking with a man in the gym about how he was in a rush to finish his workout to get home for dinner.  The conversation ended up with him saying that