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How to Get Control over Your Anger
Posted: November 06, 2015 by lorraine@healthcounselingpdx.com
If you want to prevent angry outbursts here are some ways to keep your anger under control.
Tags: mood and feelings
Read MoreHave You Diagnosed Yourself Lately?
Posted: September 25, 2015 by Nani Waddoups
New clients in my practice often introduce themselves by including their self-diagnoses: “I’m OCD,” “I have Anxiety Disorder,” “I think I’m Bi-Polar.” I understand the temptation to label our thoughts and moods and behaviors as a way to simplify our understanding of ourselves, but this simplification robs us of celebrating the complexity and nuance of who we are, and can minimize the significance of these diagnoses for people who really have them.
Tags: mood and feelings, anxiety
Read MoreHelping Children Deal with Grief and Loss
Posted: August 04, 2015 by Kaleigh Doncheck
One of the most common questions I’ve received is how to help children and teens deal with grief and loss. Often parents and caregivers understandably feel overwhelmed by their own emotions and struggle to support their child through the grieving process. Sometimes parents don’t want to upset their child and are unsure of how to explain death in a way that will make sense, especially when children are younger.
Tags: mood and feelings, relationship and family, life transition
Read MoreNever Enough Time: Allowing for Unstructured Unfolding
Posted: July 25, 2015 by Nani Waddoups
Right now, in this moment, I am writing about time. It is somewhat difficult to stay present as I write. My mind can easily “future trip” into imagining you, the reader, reading what I am currently writing. I can also find my focus interrupted by voices: the voice of an editor, the voice of the critic – “Sure has been a while since you’ve done a newsletter!” Most disruptive to my efforts to stay here, right now, writing about time, is a low-grade anxious hum emanating from deep within me, and the message of that hum is that I really don’t have time to be sitting here writing about time.
Tags: mood and feelings, anxiety
Read MoreDIY Couples Therapy: 5 Ways to Keep Your Momentum Going Outside of the Therapist's Office
Posted: July 22, 2015 by miranda@livinggroovecounseling.com
So you made the decision and commitment to go to couples therapy. You've done the work, improved communication, and you've met all sorts of relationship goals. Now the daunting question: How can we maintain all of this progress outside the therapist office?
Tags: relationship and family
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