Breaking the “All-or-Nothing” Mindset: 4 Ways to Be Cognitively Flexible and Nurture Connections
As a life-long professional and personal “work-in-progress” myself, one of the ways I can spot a need to shift my thinking is when my thoughts start looping with sentences that begin with, “It’s always…,” or “I know how this ends…”.I am a therapist specializing in addiction and attachment theory...
Overcoming Resistance When Life Is a Struggle: 4 Ways to Learn to Accept Help
I have been an attachment therapist for several decades, and you would think I would have conquered my reluctance to ask for help – I should know better, right? Honestly, I am loads better than I was, but like a lot of people I am still uncomfortable when I find myself in a position where I need ...
When Our Relationships Make Us Sick
3 Ways to Navigate Relationship StressAs a therapist specializing in relationships and codependency, I have been struck by how frequently medical illness is part of the story of the person struggling in their relationships. In fact, this is so common that when I was writing about codependency in ...