Parents Need to Teach Resiliency and Distress Tolerance in Children

I often see children and adults coming in for counseling because they are medicating or numbing themselves out to avoid the overwhelming feelings they have when things happen in life. …

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Anxiety

https://player.vimeo.com/video/105697556?title=0&byline=0 Anxiety is one of those things that is really pretty prevalent in the United States nowadays.  People feel really anxious sometimes a lot especially if there is a lot…

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Is it Perfectionism or People Pleasing Behavior or Anxiety or Is It Really a Coping Mechanism?

Our thoughts and beliefs often fall into patterns that then direct our behaviors.  When someone comes in and says, "I feel like I am never good enough" they are often…

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