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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If Making Comments About Someone’s Weight is NOT Helpful Then What Is?

There was an interesting article in TIME that cited a study from Health Psychology titled: You Exercise Less When You Think Life Isn’t Fair http://time.com/3595856/obesity-overweight-exercise/ . The 'why try' effect gets in…

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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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