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Managing Emotions After a Crisis
After a crisis, it is common to experience feelings of sadness, anger, fear, shock, numbness, grief, irritability and disillusionment. You may find that it is hard to leave your home, get out of bed, have a lack of appetite, poor sleep or nightmares, or find it difficult to concentrate or complete daily tasks.
How to Communicate with a Partner Who Has ADHD
Living with ADHD can often be viewed as a challenge, but tapping into some of your strengths because of it, can be rewarding.
How to Tune into What You Really Want in a Relationship
What you need or want in a relationship can look different than your friend, sibling or co-worker. We all have different ways we feel seen or loved, desires, values, and deal-breakers that we hold for our relationships to be fulfilling.
Delayed Grief: What Is It and How Do You Manage It?
Grief is a truly universal and human emotion. We will all experience loss at some point in our life.
My Book Review of “The Tell” by Amy Griffin
Trauma is typically thought of as a single, significant life event. For many people, however, trauma consists of something repeated and prolonged.
Understanding Complex Trauma
Trauma is typically thought of as a single, significant life event. For many people, however, trauma consists of something repeated and prolonged.
How to Tell Your Loved Ones that You’ve Left the LDS (Mormon) Church
Dealing with a faith transition from a high demand religion can be extremely difficult with many complexities, layers of emotions and various relationships involved.
What Is Perfectionism?
Striving for excellence is not inherently bad but problems arise when the drive to be perfect becomes all-consuming.
Postpartum What??
When things are feeling unfamiliar after having a baby it can be difficult to know exactly what is going on.
It’s Not You, It’s Me (If Diets Could Talk)
“I just can’t lose weight. I don’t know what’s wrong with me!”
Navigating the Holidays with an Eating Disorder
The holiday season is often a mixed bag of stress, fun, excitement and exhaustion.
Navigating Faith Transitions
Living in Utah, faith related concerns or faith transitions comes up more frequently in therapy.
Do I Have An Eating Disorder?
If you’re asking this question, it’s likely you know you’re struggling in some areas in your relationship to food and body.
How ADHD Can Impact our Relationship to Food and Body
ADHD is a mental health disorder that impacts a person’s ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and execute complex tasks.
Why Inclusion Matters
According to the Trevor Project, LGBT+ youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide than other youth.
Overeating versus Binge-Eating
Living in a thin-obsessed, diet driven culture, it can be hard to know what is disordered eating versus a full-blown eating disorder.
Differentiation in Faith Transitions
When I started my Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, I heard the term “differentiation” for the first time.
Radically Accepting our Bodies
A common theme for a lot of my clients is feeling uncomfortable in their body, engaging in unhealthy behaviors to try to change it, and seeing it as the enemy.