At its core, relational therapy recognizes that the primary tool for change and/or growth is the relationship between client and therapist. This focus on relationships comes from the psychology of connection and co-regulation. Read on to learn how relational therapy helps heal, build empowerment, and improvement your relationships.

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.

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.

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!

But what if this January, for our New Year’s resolutions, we were able to approach an old concept with new complexity? What if we were able to hold both the past and the future, the good with the bad, the things we want as well as the systems that influence how we want them?

This year, there has been a lot to bounce back from. The resiliency we thought we may have had is probably running out as we face burnout, stress, and more unknowns. Here are some tips to help feel more resilient in the face of uncertainty.

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!

When we begin to deconstruct our beliefs about anger and start to feel into what it is telling us, we find that it is actually an incredibly important and useful emotion. Anger tells us that something isn’t right—that something we value is at risk. Anger tells us when we need to take action or set a healthy boundary.

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.