Posted by Counseling Wise on September 23, 2019 Lately, you’ve noticed that the emotional gap between yourself and your partner has widened. Whenever you try to bring up an important point, your partner pulls away. They feel like you are criticizing them. The emotional safety and connection that you once felt have almost disappeared. You […]

Oprah’s new series “The Me You Don’t See” is an enormously well-crafted and deeply moving series.  In that series, Oprah focuses her most amazing gifts on our mental health needs as humans.  And the shining truth that emerged for me in her beautiful work is that we need each other as humans so we can […]

Have you ever driven a sport’s car?  If you have then you know the exhilaration of pushing the car beyond normal speed limits, feeling it respond.   Also, you have noted how supple that car is when needing to break.  However, in that experiment have you paid attention to your heart rate and the effect of […]

  It’s exhausting to deal with grief, trauma, anxiety, or any ongoing emotional upset. In fact, the burdens of these experiences can test coping mechanisms and keep one stuck in pain. Each day may feel  like having to run faster and faster to avoid or bury discomfort. Reprieve from the pain is possible.  If your […]