By Robin Levick, MFT Conflict is inevitable and unavoidable in relationships. Conflict arises when people in a relationship are not in alignment, and perfect alignment is a fantasy. When the misalignment is uncomfortable for one or more persons in the relationship, communication is necessary to reconcile differences. Anger is a part of this process. Anger […]
These include: challenges in communication sexual issues difficulties managing together and alone time You may be ready to give couples therapy a shot, but your partner might be anything but ready. So what do you do? We all know that forcing anything is usually not a good idea. Resistance may be a sign of underlying […]
Some years back, I went through a period of depression. I didn’t want to get out of bed and was having a hard time focusing at work. I have a background in art, but hadn’t put the brush to canvas in years. Somehow, during this darkness, I found the motivation to take my art materials […]
Have you ever found yourself having a conversation with a friend or in a therapy session, and you didn’t quite know what to say? Or all the words you could find to discuss your experience had already been said, and restated in slightly different ways, but perpetual feelings of discontent, depression, anxiety, loneliness, overwhelm, confusion […]
The Feelings Wheel, created by Dr. Gloria Willcox, can help us put words to emotions and care for our mental health. We are here to talk about the primary emotions identified within this wheel. It can be difficult, at times, to identify an emotion that we feel at a given moment. We may use phrases […]
As we age, we are conditioned to follow societal expectations for what it means to be a “successful adult”. Sometimes this moves us away from eliciting creativity to problem solve or cope with stressful moments. Instead, we might lean on predetermined rules to navigate through challenges, or find ourselves using unhealthy coping strategies that perpetuate […]
You try to read the first question when suddenly, the words disappear off the page. As you search your brain for the material you studied, it seems like all your preparation was a waste. Even the sound of your breath begins to worry you. Is there any relief? Test anxiety is a common form of […]
Your body matters because it’s with you all the time and it remembers what you do, how you are, and your way of being. There is a way in which every experience that you have impacts the body. This is intuitive to some extent. We feel the ache after a long strenuous walk and we […]
“Here we go again. He won’t stop criticizing everything I do. I don’t know where his anger is coming from, but I can’t take it anymore. I feel like I can’t do anything right.” “So what do I do in response? Naturally, I shut down. What am I going to do, keep arguing with him? It’s so much easier to just […]