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 | Jan 6, 2021 | Self-Care Practices, Thoughts About The Therapeutic Process, Uncategorized
Self-compassion for therapists sounds like it’s a given, right? Psychotherapists are some of the most compassionate people I know. Many of us are temperamentally sensitive and predisposed to caregiving. By the time we hit graduate school and our professional...
by wholeselftherapy | Jul 23, 2019 | Anxiety + Depression, Self-Care Practices
In the course of a human life-span, there are so many transitions to contend with. Most of us will transition, as children, from one school to another. Many of us will move from one home to another, sometimes it will be a ‘big move’ to another...
by wholeselftherapy | Mar 7, 2019 | Self-Care Practices
The work of getting to know oneself is some of the most important work that we can do. A big part of this process is getting to know your own needs. We are in a time in our culture when we have grown accustomed to deferring to family, friends or the media to tell us...
by wholeselftherapy | Dec 6, 2018 | Anxiety + Depression, Self-Care Practices
So often in life we find ourselves in periods of reflection. Looking back, we contemplate our successes and failures in various aspects of our lives. When we do this, we open the door to the feeling that we’re coming up short; we’re not measuring up to our own...
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....
