Being a mindful parent takes time and commitment. How can we provide our children with confidence, security and healthy mindset that will set them up for success? We all want our children to grow up and build meaningful lives of their own. By exploring our own attachment patterns, we can model a whole new life for our kids - the kind of life we have always dreamed of!
Read MoreBeing a mindful parent takes time and commitment. How can you provide a framework for your children to help them develop into confident, solid individuals who can build meaningful lives? By exploring your own attachment patterns, you can learn to model a whole new life for your kids - the kind of lif you always wanted.
Read MoreMost human are chasing the feeling of happiness.
Based on a recent survey given to millennials about their most important life goals, over 80% responded by saying they would like to get rich, and over 50% of the same group shared that they would also like to attain fame in their lifetime.
The not-so-subtle message we receive is to do more, work harder and keep spinning that wheel until we achieve.
Read MoreI want to explain to you exactly what is happening to you when you're having anxiety or maybe even a panic attack. Since knowledge is power. here's whats happening in your brain.
The temporal lobe is the front part of your brain responsible for making decisions and has the ability to check with your surroundings. The temporal lobe takes in sensory information from your environment and also has stored past memories of similar situations.
Read MoreI understand how hard it is to venture out and seek someone who you will open up to, and allow them in to help you with your innermost worries, hopes, fears and wishes. At the same time, I commend you for beginning this search as it takes one step to begin making the change you seek; and research proves that good therapy helps people committed to change.
In my many years as a therapist, and even before then, many individuals had shared with me that they'd been"therapy shopping" for a while and were feeling frustrated. They had either started and felt confused or misunderstood the process, or began seeing someone and weren't sure how to know if it was a right fit and if they were progressing as they had hoped.
I've delineated some basic pointers on how to be good consumer of psychotherapy.
Read MoreWho likes being plain old simple plain Jane?
Or plain ol' Tom, Dick or Harry?
I remember on my entry letter to graduate school I started with..."We exist in a world where it seems as though individuals are running in a race, a race where no one can actually ever really win....". I saw the rush, the hurry, the starvation for being "it" for being louder, wiser, cooler, funnier,,more successful,....stronger, better, different!
