Is Unhealed Emotional Trauma Impacting Your Creativity or Performance? EMDR Can Help.
As a creative or performer, you use your life experiences to make your art. You call upon the most magical and painful moments in your life in order to speak and connect to your audience. Through your art, you celebrate life’s greatest moments, bringing awareness to...
Are Emotional Triggers Ruining Your Life? Consider EMDR Therapy!
You’re just being yourself, going about your day, and then, all of a sudden, something happens and you’re triggered. Though you’d been feeling calm and happy, now you’re now fuming. You are washed with emotions of hurt, shame, or humiliation. You might feel invaded...
How Psychotherapy That Weaves In EMDR Can Help Creatives With Addictive Patterns
As beautiful and rewarding as the life of the artist can be, it’s also inherently full of risks and challenges. Often, drugs and other addictive behaviors are part of the creatives’ lifestyle. Many artists experiment with drugs or start using them habitually to help...
What’s Behind the Power of EMDR?
As a psychotherapist, I have helped many heal and transform over the years. But, despite meaningful progress, there were times when I felt we couldn't quite reach the root of the emotional issues. There was a call to go deeper and to do the work more effectively and...
How EMDR Therapy Can Help You Harness the Healing Power of Your Nighttime Dreams
Dreams… What a beautiful, complex, and mysterious part of our emotional life. Dreams can be full of feelings and meaning, stories and characters. From fragments of different worlds to very intimate stories, dreams are a window into our mysterious inner world -...
What is The Big Deal About EMDR Therapy?
In the last few years EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) has been so present in the news, social media, and TV shows. People everywhere seem to be talking about it, and your friends are saying, “you really have to try it!” So, what is the big deal...
Are You Chasing What You Want, Or Are You Creating Your Life?
Are you chasing your needs and desires, or are you creating your life? What’s the difference? In this post, we’ll explore how chasing your goals is different from investing yourself toward creating the life of your dreams. First, I invite you to recall moments when...
How EMDR Psychotherapy Can Help You Show Up for Your Creative Work
As a creative, you want to show up in the world and to share your creativity. You’re driven to connect and make meaning through your craft, art, or performance. But, you may find yourself avoiding your work and feel unable to “show up” fully. You daydream and get lost...
Healing Performance Anxiety or Stage Fright with EMDR
As a performer, actor, musician, dancer, comedian, or speaker, you know what it feels like to get on stage or in front of the camera grounded in all who you are. Your talents, skills, and passions flow together effortlessly. In that space, you feel at ease, and your...
Why Do My Emotions Interfere With My Creativity?
As a creative, you use your emotions to tell compelling stories. When your art is born from a genuine emotional expression, you offer your audience a glimpse of the unique you - your interpretation and manifestation of human experiences. There’s something about...
What Are “Avoidant Attachment Wounds” and Could They Be Holding You Back?
When you grow up in an environment that’s full of authentic love, often called “emotional attunement” in the world of psychology, it sets you on a path of lifetime of real, intimate connection to yourself and others. If, thanks to a supportive childhood, you...
What Are “ Anxious Attachment Wounds” and Could They Be Holding You Back?
When you grow up in an environment full of love and connection, it sets you up for a lifetime of healthy, nurturing relationships. In a previous blog post, “Healing Attachment Wounds With Psychotherapy For A More Fulfilling Life,” we explored how your early relational...
Healing Attachment Wounds With Psychotherapy For A More Fulfilling Life
The concept of “attachment style” is everywhere nowadays. It seems to be flooding the internet and you’ll see references to attachment style across social media, YouTube, relationships coaching programs, and more. So, what's the big hype about the attachment style and...
Why Is It Important to Be Emotionally Attuned to Yourself?
You probably remember moments when you have felt deeply connected to yourself and with who you are. You’ve been able to open your heart and “feel your feelings.” You’ve felt fully present, creative, and inspired. You’ve had these experiences, you know what it’s like...
