Being Vulnerable and Healing From Shame
I love all of Brene’ Brown’s work on vulnerability, shame, and empathy. I think one of my favorite quotes from Brene’ Brown is “Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage are not always comfortable but they’re never weakness”. I encourage clients, friends and family to read her work because her messages […]
Empathy: Let Someone Know That You’re There For Them
As both a mother and a therapist, I have the innate instinct to always want to help others. Help them communicate. Help them solve their problems. Help them through life’s obstacles. Help them better their relationship with their spouse and/or family. Over time, I realized that problem solving was not always the best road to take. […]
My Experience with Death and What I Have Learned
I recently came across this article, What Death Taught Me, in The Huffington Post. In this article, the author, Katie Dreyer, describes her experience of dealing with her mother’s battle with cancer and the death of her mother. She describes what she learned through these experiences and I began to reflect on my own experiences […]
Grief: WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP?
Grief is all around us. Although we can’t live our lives in fear anticipating the loss of our loved ones, many people in our culture at times choose to live in denial of death/dying. And then when close friends/family experience loss, we don’t know what to do. Grief is a normal response to loss but […]
Loss In Different Forms
Whether it’s the death of a loved one or loss in the form of change in our life (divorce, move, job changes…), all of us will endure grief and loss in our lifetime. How we experience the loss is unique. We need people around us who will accept our ways of grieving. Some need to […]
5 Signs That Let You Know When To Call Therapy With Heart
I was thinking out loud with my daughter, who is almost 10 years old about what I was going to write about this month and she said, “why don’t you tell people when they should go to therapy?” I asked her to share her thoughts and she responded with “when someone is really upset and […]
Finding Balance While Grieving
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” -Albert Einstein When a loved one dies, there seems to be a strange effect on time and energy. For many days or even months; time appears to slow and energy no longer flows. A fog settles in. Everyone else around us […]
Commitment and Courage: Parenting the Grieving Child
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow”. Anonymous Parenting the grieving child has to be one of the most difficult tasks for a mother or father. Both parenting and grieving are life events filled with heartfelt challenges. After a loved […]
