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During These Scary Times, I Hope You’re Taking Care of Yourself: Coronavirus and Reducing Anxiety

According to The Depression Project, this is why the coronavirus is triggering mental health issues: Triggers feelings of hopelessness,...

During These Scary Times, I Hope You’re Taking Care of Yourself: Coronavirus and Reducing Anxiety

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Mental Health

Finding Peace When the World Around Us Feels Out of Control

Although most of us have never experienced a pandemic, you have no doubt experienced hardship. And the reality is that while we may...

Finding Peace When the World Around Us Feels Out of Control

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Adult Counseling

First Responder and COVID19

I grew up in a healthcare/first responder family and am still in one with my husband being a first responder. It’s a difficult place to...

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Adult Counseling

How Radical Acceptance (and not Approval) Will Help You Get Through It

Radical acceptance means acknowledging reality for what it is – pleasant and unpleasant, wholly. In this case, acceptance is not...

How Radical Acceptance (and not Approval) Will Help You Get Through It

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Adult Counseling

Grieving What Once Was: So, Are We Still Friends?

Pick Up Where We Left Off This is what basically happened to someone I still deem a great friend. I hoped that our friendship would pick...

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Adult Counseling

“Am I Mad or Just Hungry?” – How Not To Light Everything On Fire When Your Physica

However… these needs are basically non-existent for some. How many of us feel like we are constantly running in the negative with one,...

“Am I Mad or Just Hungry?” – How Not To Light Everything On Fire When Your Physica

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Mental Health

Surviving Cabin Fever – You Don’t Have To Strangle Everyone While Being Safe

Being quarantined, whether self regulated or government mandated, is never fun. Since we are in Houston, we are used to hiding away for a...

Surviving Cabin Fever – You Don’t Have To Strangle Everyone While Being Safe

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Adult Counseling

Stop Being a Control Freak!

As a bit of a control freak myself, I may be a little biased here, but being a control freak isn’t all bad! Another way to look at it is...

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Adult Counseling

4 Tips to Help You Make Friends as an Adult (Because it’s Hard!)

Being an avid gym-goer, I see many faces at the gym. For the most part, everyone keeps to themselves, but you start to recognize more...

4 Tips to Help You Make Friends as an Adult (Because it’s Hard!)

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Adult Counseling

When Your Toddler’s Big Emotions Give You Big Emotions!

A couple months ago I shared a post on my Instagram (@realtalkandrainbowscounseling – you should follow me!) about bringing my toddler in...

When Your Toddler’s Big Emotions Give You Big Emotions!

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Adult Counseling

Crisis Situations & Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills

So you just discovered your spouse is having an affair. The doctor just disclosed a diagnosis of a serious medical condition you thought...

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Childrens Counseling

How to Talk to Someone That is Grieving

Death and loss are inevitable. They’re the most sure things about life. For some reason, though, we can get weird around the topic of...

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Women's Issues

How to Love Yourself (When Struggling with Mental Illness)

Struggling with mental illness can be a destructive process. We pick ourselves apart, judge ourselves, over-analyze every move we make...

How to Love Yourself (When Struggling with Mental Illness)

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Adult Counseling

Unhealthy Friendships in Adulthood

Something I work on with my clients ALL. THE. TIME. is how to identify healthy relationships. No, I don’t just mean romantic...

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Women's Issues

How to Save Your Relationship from the Rise of Technology

Reclaim Attention in Your Relationship Attention is very important to human beings. As helpless infants, we need attention from others to...

How to Save Your Relationship from the Rise of Technology

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Adult Counseling

“So, I don’t know how to say this, but…”: Why it’s important to have awkward conversatio

Have you ever had an “awkward” therapy experience? What was your response? Did you ghost your therapist? Did you cancel all future...

“So, I don’t know how to say this, but…”: Why it’s important to have awkward conversatio

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Adult Counseling

When Children of Divorce Become Adults

Celebrations & Holidays Being an adult child of divorce means there is no “home” to go back to during the holiday season. Typically, the...

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Women's Issues

Staying True to Yourself Under Pressure

Define your values and beliefs. Ask yourself, “what do I believe and why”? Is there a behavior I need to gain control over? What do I...

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Adult Counseling

A Lesson From the Honeybee: Working with What You’ve Got

We’re all unique individuals Sometimes we forget where we came from – the tools we were (or weren’t) born with or provided while growing...

A Lesson From the Honeybee: Working with What You’ve Got

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Adult Counseling

4 Steps on How to Be Assertive This Year

“But wait,” you say, “What if I don’t have a very dominant or aggressive personality?” No problem! The word “assertive” gets a bad rep...

4 Steps on How to Be Assertive This Year

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