blog: Thoughts on Being Human
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On Things You Might Not Know About Your Therapist…But Have Always Wanted To
Your therapist is human too! We can be messy, suck at boundaries, and also share in everyday experiences. If you have questions about your therapist but are too afraid to ask, click here and read about 10 things you might not know about your therapist.
On Self-Care for a Weird Post-Vaccinated Summer
This past year has held a rollercoaster of emotions and required humankind to focus on survival. Now, many of us are vaccinated and curious about what life and relationships look like in this post-vaccinated world. Explore practices to maintain, prompts to reflect on, and ways to attempt to care for the self this summer.
On Why Self-Care Needs to Include Rest
Rest and rejuvenation are critical to supporting us as humans. Our society prioritizes doing over being and thus self-care has come to mean engaging in a lot of activity. Read on to learn more about why doing nothing is essential for true self-care.
On the Importance of Reconnecting with Our Nervous System
Tracking our embodiment is important because it helps us integrate and make meaning of our emotional experience. Emotions live in our body—without paying attention to what sensations arise in our bodies we are mostly thoughts, content, and analysis with no grounding in our authentic feelings.
On Creative Burnout & Five Steps to Help Get Back to Your Flow
In our society we talk about burnout a lot in the context of being overworked and disliking our jobs. What happens when we’re able to turn something we love into our job? Creative burnout is more common than most people think and it can feel very discouraging.
On Sex Therapy: What It Looks Like & Why It’s Good for Individuals Too
The goal of sex therapy is to assist folx in healing from physical and emotional challenges in order to access a more pleasurable relationship with their bodies and with sex itself.
On Using Yoga and Movement to Stop Being Busy & Feel More Connected to Your Partner
Do you engage in movement with your partner? What kinds of practices do you do together to get to share in connecting through embodiment? Read on for Gaby Ramos’ experience trying out couples yoga with her partner and learning about the importance of movement for connection.
On Using Mindfulness to Feel More Ease Throughout Your Day
Most of us want to overlook the challenging or painful moments (myself included!) and hope to quickly breeze through them in our day. If you try to pay attention to them though, a lot can be learned from these instances. Read on to harness the power of mindfulness to feel more welcoming of challenging emotions.
On How to Be Less Self-Critical & More Self-Compassionate
How often are you practicing self-compassion? Be honest! We tend to favor self-criticism or self-judgment over learning to be compassionate with ourselves and our experience. We have become so accustomed to beating ourselves up that self-criticism feels comfortable and can even act as a way to soothe ourselves.
On How to Feel More Ready to Start Therapy
This first step to beginning therapy takes insight and a belief (or want to believe) that it is okay to prioritize yourself and your mental health. Let me affirm this step—you are worthy of help, betterment, and deeper relationships. Read on for helpful steps to make starting therapy feel a little bit easier!
On How to Start Developing a Mindfulness Practice
We have a lot of ideas of what mindfulness is supposed to look like, but In reality, there is no right way to become mindful or to create moments of mindfulness in your daily life. Read along to find out some easy places to start!
On Tackling the Need to Always Be Busy & How to Start Loving Yourself as You Are
Is it difficult for you to create space for yourself that includes doing nothing at all or non-productive activities? Are you constantly thinking about the next task? These omnipresent capitalist values inevitably become entangled not only with self-worth, but also with self-criticism. Read on for tips to slow down and increase self-compassion.