by wholeselftherapy | Sep 9, 2024 | Healthy Relating, My Media Recommendations
Stonewalling and Avoidance Aren’t Helping Your Relationship Is you have a tendency to shut down the conversation, retreat into your own space, or avoid the other person entirely when conflict hits, you might using stonewalling and avoidance. And...
by wholeselftherapy | Aug 30, 2024 | Anxiety + Depression, Healthy Relating, My Media Recommendations, Self-Care Practices
Navigating the Weekend After a Tough Break-Up is… Tough! Keeping busy after a painful break-up, particularly on the weekends can be a challenge. Especially if your weekends when you were in a relationship were completely consumed by your partner. Rest assured,...
by wholeselftherapy | Sep 29, 2021 | Healthy Relating, My Media Recommendations, Schema Therapy
Photo Credit: Harper’s Bazaar Therapy for Childhood Trauma This morning I read an article that has inspired a new category of Blog Post for Whole Self Therapy: The Human Condition. In The Human Condition, I will be sharing stories that illustrate what we humans...
by wholeselftherapy | May 18, 2020 | My Media Recommendations, Women's Issues
Written in 1985 by psychotherapist Harriet Lerner, PhD, The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships is a seminal book about women and their relationships with their own feelings of anger. A Book Written For Women One of...
by wholeselftherapy | Nov 29, 2019 | Anxiety + Depression, My Media Recommendations
Last night I tuned in to Gary Gulman’s HBO special “The Great Depresh.” It was a 74 minute comedy special featuring a mixture of his stand-up routine and documentary elements from his life. Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh 2019 Trailer As a therapist...
by wholeselftherapy | Nov 4, 2018 | Buddhism, Meditation and Non-Attachment, My Media Recommendations, Self-Care Practices
I recently wrapped up my reading of Kristen Neff’s book Self Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and found myself introducing my clients to ideas and exercises that I read about as I went through the book....
