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What is EMDR Therapy and How Can it Help?

February 1, 2019

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an integrative psychotherapy approach that has been extensively researched and proven effective for the treatment of trauma and multiple other mental health disorders to include depression, anxiety, OCD, low self-esteem/self-worth etc. EMDR is a set of standardized protocols that incorporates elements from many different treatment approaches and has proven to be highly effective in creating adaptive processing and related connections in the brain. People often hshare that initial they are skeptical…

Imperfection and Letting Go

July 10, 2018

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“We will always be incredibly imperfect. If you wait until you’re “perfect” before you share your stories, ideas, talents and gifts with the world, no one will ever hear from you.” Let us just embrace imperfection for a minute. Isn’t that what makes us so unique and special anyways? Our society, our own expectations, others expectations can be so heavy to carry. We often look into the mirror and think, “well if I were just 10 lbs lighter, if…

Today is a New Day to Shine

July 8, 2018

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Everyday that we are granted is a Gift. A Gift from God, the higher universe, where we are connected at the highest vibration. When we learn to make a change and shift our perspective to one of gratitude and graciousness instead of self doubt and loathing the world changes around us. People ask, “well, how do I do this?” It’s not easy but with diligence it can be done. It took a lifetime to get us where we are…

Laughing Out Loud

July 8, 2018

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Sometimes in life we just have to stop to laugh out loud. Last night I was talking to a good friend of mine, a former chaplain that I worked with in Hospice for several years. He knows me like my closest friends know me and this is so therapeutic because I’m often very hard to understand (LOL). So we were talking and a while back I sent him this picture (hope I can find it and post it here)…

The Journey Begins

July 5, 2018

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Thanks for joining me! I’m so excited to finally be here and to share tons of thoughts, exchange ideas and just to have a space to be free and creative. We all need that, right? Anyways I’m happy that we can connect here and share our journey. It’s a magical one and in starting my new career and calling as a Therapist I’m excited to have this platform to call my own and to connect with others. So Welcome…

I Am So Excited

July 5, 2018

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I’m so excited to finally be here and to share tons of thoughts, exchange ideas and just to have a space to be free and creative. We all need that, right? Anyways I’m happy that we can connect here and share our journey. It’s a magical one and in starting my new career and calling as a Therapist I’m excited to have this platform to call my own and to connect with others. So Welcome and let’s begin!:)