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...
How to Heal From Avoidant Attachment and Reclaim Connection
In previous blog posts, “Healing Attachment Wounds With Psychotherapy For A More Fulfilling Life” and “What Are Anxious Attachment Wounds and Could They Be Holding You Back?” we explored some of the long-term imprints of childhood relational experiences on your life...
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?
Self-Attunemnet? What is it? You probably remember moments when you felt alive and present. With your heart open and deeply connected to yourself, others, or the world. You felt engaged with your sense of agency, maybe even creative, and inspired. Self-attunement,...
Create Your Life in 2022
As 2022 is settling in, how are you feeling? Do you have a sense of enthusiasm about your hopes, plans, and visions for the new year? The new rush of emotional energy that came in with the new year likely gave you a boost of hope and inspiration. Beginnings feel fresh...
The Emotional Risks of Becoming a Character: How To Recover the Self After an Intense Role
As an actor, you embody a character to tell a story. Through that story, you connect to your audience by mirroring the fears, needs, disappointments, hopes, or dreams that everyone has experienced in some way. Acting is a powerful art that can change lives and can...
