You Are How You Spend Your Time

Seems like these days everybody is super busy. Here in L.A., you’ll find coffee shops filled with people frantically tapping away on laptops and taking meetings, the streets are jammed with cars (all going somewhere “very important”), and people hurrying up to wait in line for hours for the latest pop up shop, to get…

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How to Stop the Cycle of Emotional Scar Tissue

When you think of pain, does your mind go immediately to sore joints or a physical trauma? When our bodies hurt it means that something isn’t working correctly, that we’re out of alignment, that something is damaged. Working through the pain can be a process, and even though we can feel the pain, it can…

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Creative Expansion: Five Ways to Develop Your Creative Process

For a long time, I did not consider myself to be a creative person. I thought of myself as a creativity groupie of sorts — consuming books, music, movies, and art in other shapes and forms. I would tell myself that I couldn’t call myself creative. I have yet to learn how to play any…

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Five Ways to Set Intention

As a therapist, part of my work centers around collaborating with clients to create manageable goals. Goals are an important part of reaching personal potential and fulfillment. Not to mention, they provide a pretty awesome confidence boost when met, as accomplishment can be the ultimate propellant for motivation! But when we fail to attain a goal…

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Be Your Own Hero: Learn How Mastery Gets You Moving

One of the main reasons someone decides to go to individual or group therapy is because they feel stuck. Experiences like anxiety, depression, trauma, and unhealthy relationships can leave you feeling like you are not in control of your life. Like being on a merry-go-round of misery, the same bad things keep happening and/or your…

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Calm Yourself: Eight Self Care Tips You Need to Learn Now

We’ve all been there…You feel your heart start to pound. You notice your jaw clenching. You can’t sit still or focus. You think you might burst into tears at any moment. However the sensations flooding through your body present themselves or what thoughts are racing through your mind, the result is the same: you’re overwhelmed.…

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