Dealing With Uncertainty

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Dealing With Uncertainty

Uncertainty is really hard for us.  As humans, we love knowing.  We love knowing what to expect.  We love routines.  We love being certain of things. We love structure.  Our brains are hard-wired to create these shortcuts for us that help us to understand our world.  We are bombarded with information and stimuli to our senses every minute of the day. Our brains have developed an ability to filter out unimportant information, make judgment calls about what's not important.  Based on our previous experiences, it’s a shortcut for our brain so it doesn’t have to pay attention to everything.  I wrote about these shortcuts in this blog. We look to the things we are certain of to help us make sense of our world.

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Taking Care Of You

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Likely many of us are experiencing worry these days. Worry about finding toilet paper at the store when our family needs it.  Worry about staying healthy.  Worry about being off of work and our income being affected.  Worry about being isolated from others.  This new reality feels very different for us all-it’s very shocking.  I want to remind you to take care of you. I’d like to offer a few tips to care for your mental wellbeing during this time:

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My Thoughts on Brainspotting

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I’ve been incorporating Brainspotting into my therapy sessions for almost 5 months now, and I wanted to share with you some thoughts on what my clients experience with this new type of therapy.  I wrote the blog An Introduction to Brainspotting which gives a brief overview, but I also wanted to talk more about the benefits I’ve seen my clients experience. This type of therapy can be used in addition to regular talk therapy. Some clients had one Brainspotting session, and then we go back to talk therapy to discuss things that came up in the Brainspotting session. Others have done several Brainspotting sessions with talk therapy mixed in. How we use this mode of therapy is up to the client.

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8 Strategies for Dealing With Money To Improve Your Mental Wellbeing

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Black Friday 2019 has come and gone.  Each year it seems as if Black Friday sales start earlier and earlier.  Nonstop ads and commercials are bombarding us all to get our holiday shopping completed….. and to buy gifts for everyone.   I heard the other day that each person will spend more than $900 on Christmas gifts alone this year!  This is close to if not more than many people pay for a monthly mortgage payment!  This is so much pressure and so overwhelming! 

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An Introduction To Brainspotting

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I first heard about Brainspotting earlier this year, when another therapist colleague mentioned it.  After reading David Grand’s book Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy For Rapid and Effective Change, I was intrigued!  I attended the Phase 1 training in Maryland earlier this month, and am happy to be able to explain more about this type of therapy.  Here’s a brief overview to give you more information on this exciting new therapy that I am now able to offer as a Brainspotting Practitioner.

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