*Please note that I am not a medical professional. For personalized advice and information, consult a qualified healthcare provider, such as a primary care physician, nutritionist, or registered dietitian.* In today’s fast-paced world, it’s not uncommon for people to skip meals, often without realizing the toll it takes on their mental well-being. Whether it’s due … Read more

To understand men with both narcissistic and borderline personality disorder, I want to provide a snapshot of an interaction from both an external perspective and the man’s individual perception. First, from an external perspective, consider one woman’s interaction with her husband that is struggling. She arrives ten minutes late to dinner, and finds that he … Read more

“When are you having kids?”, “How long have you been trying?”, “You will be great parents!”, “I know it will happen soon!”, “Enjoy your time while you don’t have kids waking you up all night!” All of these questions or phrases are well-meaning and said kindly. Yet, for someone struggling with pregnancy, it can be … Read more

EMDR and Urge Reduction (DeTUR protocol) This blog is another installment of “EMDR can treat THAT!?”, which is essentially me documenting my own excitement and disbelief in learning yet another thing that EMDR (or Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) can treat, in case anyone else is curious too! To be upfront about this, this particular EMDR … Read more

How Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Helps with Overthinking and Racing Thoughts What does it mean to be in your head? The human mind can be an incredible thing.  It helps us to solve almost any type of problem, and it allows us to think and behave in creative ways.  However, sometimes we can be so … Read more

Failure can feel like a form of invalidation, but it’s important to dig into what is being invalidated and by whom. Externally, failure can sometimes lead to others doubting your abilities, rejecting your ideas, or treating you as “less than,” which feels like direct invalidation. Internally, we often tie our self-worth to success. So when … Read more

 Perhaps you recently received a conflictual text message or an unsettling email that ended on an unresolved note. You step away from the message and start driving your typical commute home from work. You have stepped away from the conflictual message, but your mind continues to play conflictual scenarios over and over again, like an … Read more

Strategies & Skills for When Your Birthday Doesn’t Feel Like a Time to Celebrate Birthdays aren’t always times of fun and celebration. For some of us, birthdays can serve as a reminder of painful events or loss. We often associate birthdays with a time or season of the year, previous memories, or people. This can … Read more

Out of all of the dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) distress tolerance skills, the STOP skill is one of the most practical and impactful when individuals practice the technique in their daily lives. Although you may have read the previous blog post about the STOP skill, this blog post will first recap the skill and then … Read more

We, humans, have to learn how to do pretty much everything. We learn how to walk, talk, eat, write, the list goes on and on. There are very few things in life that we don’t have to learn how to do. Failure is a normal part of learning and it can be really freaking hard … Read more