De-Stress Your Holidays by Taking Charge and Changing You!
Well, if you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always gotten! If you want to be less stressed, then YOU MUST CHANGE…
Failure to Launch Reason Number One is Anxiety and Fear of Failure
The first reason why some young adult children struggle to launch from their parents’ home is anxiety and fear of failure or not being good enough. The child may have…
Common Reasons Kids Fail to Launch and Live at Home with Their Parents.
Failure to launch is when a child becomes an adult (i.e. over 18 years old) but doesn’t move forward with being more independent from their parents. We are not talking…
Parents Embrace the Gray of Moderation in the Middle for Each Child
I was giving a wellness training and gave the example of a child who grows up with parents who are over protective will learn that the world is something to…
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. …
Unhealthy Relationship with Food Equals Unhealthy Weight, High or Low.
The majority of my nutrition psychotherapy work in my private practice in Ventura focusses on the relationship a person has with their food or eating. People often come in wanting…
Couples Therapy Often Starts With Them Talking About the Hurts
Couples Therapy Often Starts With Them Talking About the Hurts The couple started their relationship or their marriage with some wonderful feelings for each other. Then over time they either…
When Eating Has Become a Coping Mechanism That Runs Our Life.
Preparing for change means that we gather the information about what’s going on for us. We look for the patterns of thinking and behaviors that then lead us to more…
What’s Important in Any Relationship is Whatever is Important to Them!
Couples often wait too long before coming in for counseling and the hurt feelings have been growing for a long time. Whether it is marriage counseling or pre-marital counseling or…
Normal Eating is Intuitively Listening to Our Body’s Hunger Cues
Newborn babies know when they are hungry – they simply cry until the new parents figure out that maybe the baby is hungry and they feed the baby. The baby…