Your Self-Esteem Journey- Part 1
book appointment Over your life span, you have likely heard the term “self-esteem”. As such, you have probably come to understand self-esteem as it relates to those that you admire,…
Refuge Recovery: Where Addiction Meets Mindfulness
book appointment In May of 1935, the infamous Bill W. was in Akron, Ohio on business. Bill was a stock broker from New York and an alcoholic. After a disappointing…
Your Self-Esteem Journey – Part 2
book appointment Your Self-Esteem Journey - Part 2 Welcome back to our self-esteem series. If this is your first time accessing the blog, you may find it helpful to read…
Striving for Egg-cellence: When Work Equals Worth
book appointment The way individuals make meaning of their work has differed throughout history. In primitive societies, work was a means to survive. Early Christians viewed work as an opportunity…
How Do We Carry Secrets Before Our Lifetimes?
book appointment Freudian ideas like penis envy, the Oedipus complex, and castration anxiety do not have much support from present day scholars. These ideas are now mostly pop culture sprinkles…
Buck Being Normal, Find Your Baseline
book appointment It’s normal to normalize what is normal and to want to be normal yourself. But why do we focus so much on being normal? We live in a…
A Spoonful of Self Care Helps the Energy Go Up
book appointment I just finished reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, a book written ahead of its time and with emphasis on a widely misunderstood facet of depression. Esther,…
Origami for Understanding the Brain and Anxiety
book appointment Imagine a piece of paper that is folded in half and then unfolded to expose a crease. Let’s use the folding action to represent a lived experience and…