Tag: empowerment
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Setting Healthy Boundaries In Relationships
As a therapist, I’ve met a quite a few people who struggle with setting healthy boundaries in relationships. Unfortunately, most of us never really learned a lot about boundaries. It’s not always talked about until we are in a position to need them. We end up taking a reactionary approach and that fuels the idea…
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How To Be Your Own Best Friend
Are you your friend? This is one of my goto CBT examples in my therapy practice. I remember the first time that I used it. I was counseling a teenage girl in her freshman year of high school. Beautiful girl, smart girl, and overall wonderful compassionate human. The kind of girl that most people would…
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Self Care Isn’t Selfish
Note to self: Self Care isn’t selfish. Why we have to keep making these notes to ourselves, I have no idea. I’m a therapist and I still have to remind myself of these things on a daily basis. Logically, I know that self care is not selfish, but it can certainly start to feel that…
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What Your Personality Type Says About Your Self-Care
In my experience as a therapist, I have learned a lot about self care. In fact, it is the hot topic on my couch most days. I love to hear people sharing the various ways in which they take good care of themselves. Talks about self care usually start out fairly positive. However, the conversation…