Why Feeling Your Emotions Is Part of Healing

This week, as I’ve been sitting with clients, I’ve found myself thinking about something that often feels quietly present in the room: “Why is feeling this going to help me?” Why would turning toward sadness, grief, trauma, loneliness, anger, or pain possibly make...

Self Care

What if self care is more about being than doing. An opportunity to invite in curiosity and care. A pause to notice how your body is feeling and what it might actually need. To notice your hands, what are they holding, maybe even gripping tightly, and what needs to be...

The Pain, Waiting and Rising

Glennon Doyle, author, activist and podcast host, describes the Friday–Saturday–Sunday rhythm of life. First the pain, then the waiting, then the rising. It follows the pattern of the crucifixion and resurrection of the Christ. Friday represents the pain. It is when...

An Integral Part of Child Therapy: Caregiver Coaching

Caregiver coaching is an essential part of the process of therapy for kids. It goes hand in hand with play therapy. Research demonstrates that children will experience the most healing and growth if caregivers are involved in their therapy.  In play therapy, the...

More Than Talking: Experiencing Emotion in Therapy with AEDP

I was sitting outside with a friend last week, soaking in the glorious Charleston fall weather, when they began sharing a recent experience. They described being caught off guard by a wave of deep emotions—mostly grief—about events from the past year. They said, “I’m...

Setting Boundaries

Have you ever found yourself resenting your friend? You said “yes” to going out only to have the time feel soured because you don’t really want to be there, but you just couldn’t say “no” because you felt too much pressure.  Maybe there have been emotional wounds in...