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September is National Suicide Prevention Month, a designation made in 2008 to help raise awareness and acknowledge those who have been impacted by suicide and help honor those who have been lost.  Since its inception, suicide rates in the United States have hovered between 10…

Think about the last time you were scrolling through social media and stumbled across a post labeling someone a “narcissist.” Or maybe during a conversation with a friend or family member, they casually dropped the term to describe an ex or their significant other. With…

I was listening to one of my can’t-miss weekly podcasts recently where the host was interviewing a mental health professional speaking about her own experiences with postpartum depression as she struggled with parenting three children in the months after giving birth to her youngest.  She…

Have you ever felt like there’s a part of you that’s out of reach, a hidden depth of emotions that you can’t quite access? Brainspotting (BSP) might be the key to unlocking that inner healing. Unlike traditional talk therapy, BSP focuses on the remarkable connection…

Imagine you’re sitting in a movie theater, popcorn in hand, completely engaged in the latest blockbuster thriller. Suddenly, your heart starts pounding as if you’ve just run a marathon, it becomes hard to breath, and a sense of dread over comes you. You feel like…

At the height of the pandemic, I helped a friend move after he filed for a quarantine divorce. As we sat in the kitchen of his tiny rental house eating takeout, I asked how he felt. He became very quiet and replied, “I don’t even…