Parents often carry attachment wounds, fears, or emotional patterns from childhood into parenting without fully realizing it. The way you respond to stress, conflict, emotions, and repair can quietly shape how safe and connected your child feels growing up. Attachment...
People beginning EMDR often ask the same question: “How long will this take?” EMDR therapy in Denver is a process, and there is not a fixed time limit on healing. The answer depends on your trauma history, current stress, emotional regulation, and how safe your mind...
and profoundly sweet. (Cheryl Strayed) Take a moment to sit with this: “Mothering is absurdly hard and profoundly sweet”. While paradoxical, these two facts cannot be joined together with ‘but’.Doing that seems to weaken the first idea that mothering is absurdly hard....
Someone can appear successful, self-aware, caring, and emotionally intelligent while still feeling deeply stuck inside painful relationship patterns. One client came into EMDR therapy in Denver, exhausted from repeatedly finding themselves in emotionally unhealthy...
A former client recently reached out to thank me for the EMDR work we had done together. She shared that she often recommends EMDR to others struggling with PTSD because, in her words, it “saved her life.” That statement stayed with me. Trauma recovery is not only...
Comparison isn’t an emotion, it’s an action–a very pervasive, yet subtle action of thought. Often, when I hear a hint of comparison, I remind my clients (and myself) of Theodore Roosevelt’s quote, “Comparison is the thief of joy”. In Brene Brown’s newest book,...
Avoidance seems like it would be the easy way out—stop your pain this moment! But, we often learn the hard way that it’s never the easy way out. It isn’t an effective or healthy coping mechanism. But avoidance is everywhere! Most often, it results in regret,...
I’ve heard countless people talk about feeling more introverted having weathered the pandemic. And, I have to admit I’ve also felt the same. It’s common to hear people report they don’t find as much joy in eating out in a restaurant, being in large crowds,...
In the previous post, I mentioned that I received two cherished messages from two of my daughters on my birthday. Here is the second one: “So many wonderful things I can say I get from you every day. I love being an extension of you because you are kind, thoughtful,...
Every mom I know lives for the moment when at least one of her adult children utters a sentiment sounding something like this: “Thanks for being who you are and raising me the way you did”. I received birthday messages from 2 of my children which I will treasure for...
