Finding a Size-Inclusive Therapist

Finding a Size-Inclusive Therapist

It’s no secret that bias against folks with larger bodies is common in our mainstream media, in many of the family systems in the United States, as well as in our healthcare system. As body positivity is becoming more commonly acceptable it can be challenging to find...
How to Identify Spiritual Abuse

How to Identify Spiritual Abuse

Many years ago, my husband and I met with a pastor from our former church in hopes of finding help in addressing some relational harm that was occurring between us and another pastor.  As the meeting proceeded, it became apparent that so much more was happening...
Self-Care with our Inner Child

Self-Care with our Inner Child

I want to increase quality of life; this is something I want for myself and something I want to work with others to do for themselves. But it is hard sometimes. It’s often difficult because we have patterns of existing in the world that sometimes keep us from what we...
Body Connection

Body Connection

Body Connection The word embodiment grabs attention as of lately. It’s certainly a buzzword but it points to something that every person is connected to: the idea that we all have a body that we live in and experience everything through and with. But how many of us...
Perfectionism

Perfectionism

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. – Anna Quindlen, Being Perfect  ­ Perfectionism has been steadily increasing over the past 30 years and has become an epidemic that has...