You may have noticed a trend in the coaching world and in alternative healing communities of claims and insinuations that such-and-such a method can take you farther in one or a few sessions than “years of therapy,” or even claims that therapy “doesn’t work” (and...
I’ll never forget working in settings over ten years ago where I had to understand crisis deescalation, sitting in a training and being told, “Do not tell someone in crisis to calm down.” I was like, “Gonna keep that in my back pocket. Feels true....
If you're going through a "shit hole of a time in your life" . . . 1) How can you, with lots of external support, be with the pain and stop reacting to it or running from it through old familiar behavior patterns? How can...
Okay, so this is really another "Shit I've Said to Clients" post . . . Take 2! What did I say exactly? "It seems like you have a sparkly performance self, and a more mysterious self who has her own needs only for her." I...