Internal Family Systems recognizes inner conflicts as polarized parts. Polarized parts are understood as parts of the psyche that is battling for control, attention and for their idea to be heard and followed up on.

Anxiety impacts millions of people across the globe. It’s the most common mental health condition in the world. But, if there’s a silver lining to that, it’s that there are also many treatment and management options. 

Perfectionism is often mislabeled and misunderstood. After all, what could be bad about having high expectations for yourself and others? What’s wrong with wanting to do your best all the time? 

PTSD doesn’t discriminate. It doesn’t latch on to women or men more. When anyone goes through a traumatic experience, it can impact them for years to come. 

Hollywood often portrays Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in dramatized ways for the sake of storytelling. A character sees something that feels familiar, gasps suddenly, and their eyes widen.

Anxiety can take many forms. It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re afraid of everything. Sometimes, the fear you feel could result from something very specific.

Codependency, on the surface, might not seem like a bad thing. After all, we all want to be needed, right? But codependency takes things much further than that.

After a desensitization session it is not uncommon to feel a bit sleepy or fatigue. Just because the 60-90 min session with the therapist may be over however the brain doesn’t stop processing and helping to resolve traumatic material

When it comes to depression and sleep, the relationship tends to mimic a chicken-and-egg situation. It can be difficult to tell which one came first and which one followed.

The earliest trick we learn in life is how to ask for help, and that’s through tears. Infants don’t only cry when they’re hungry. Sometimes, they want warmth, closeness, social attention, safety reassurance, and other emotional reassurance.

Eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR) has become increasingly popular over the last few years. It’s a safe, effective, and unique form of therapy that can be especially helpful for people who have experienced trauma.

Anxious (anxious ambivalent) attachment is characterized by a longing for close intimate relationships while simultaneously fearing that they can never truly have it.

Our over-reliance on technology and social media seems to be causing an anxiety crisis. Why does life in the digital age make us feel so anxious and stressed? Let’s dig into a few possibilities.

Identify warning signs: These are any thoughts, behaviors, images, moods, or triggers that serve as clues that you are struggling. ie drinking more, numbing out, feeling hopeless, irritability etc.

While we are experiencing this pandemic and being fed 24/7 virus updates , lets be clear sometimes what you know CAN hurt you. With social media is often helpful to chew the meat and spit out the bones.

Are you nurturing, kind, and giving? Do you care for others at the expense of your own health, leaving your needs neglected?

To sabotage is to impair, deliberately destroy, prevent, cripple, obstruct and/or damage something. So why would anyone self-sabotage. Who would deliberately cripple themselves?

If you have heard ‘You’re too sensitive’ then you have likely heard ‘That shouldn’t bother you’, ‘Get over it’, ‘Grow a thick skin’ and/or ‘Are you still upset about that!’

Being a high achiever, having a drive to perform with high standards offers many rewards including financial, praise, advancement or high esteem from others.