Why Setting Boundaries Can Trigger Guilt
Guilt can make boundaries feel unsafe or wrong, shaped by early learning, people-pleasing, and distorted responsibility.
Guilt and Boundaries in Adult Relationships
Guilt complicates adult boundaries; repeated practice reshapes saying no into calmer, self-trusting communication.
Why Relationship Patterns Repeat Despite Insight
Why relationship patterns repeat despite good intentions, shaped by learned safety, attachment habits, and automatic attraction under stress.
Understanding Insecurity and Reassurance in Relationships
Examines how relationship insecurity, reassurance-seeking, and common myths shape anxiety, needs, and self-blame in dating.
How Ongoing Relationship Stress Affects Emotional Wellbeing
How ongoing relationship strain quietly unsettles emotional wellbeing, even without conflict, through vigilance, rumination, and diminished safety.
5 Tips for Overcoming Loneliness
Do you ever feel lonely? It’s an emotion that more and more of us have been experiencing over the past two years, as we increasingly become settled into routines that lack the frequency and intimacy of social contact we had prior to the pandemic. Since 2020, loneliness has come to the forefront of our collective […]
5 Tips to Manage Stress During the Holidays
The holidays are a time of year when people often experience high levels of stress. With all the planning that goes into preparing for parties, decorating your house, and shopping for gifts it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by everything on your plate. In this blog post we will give you 5 tips to manage holiday […]
What is Depression?
Depression is a disorder that affects an estimated anywhere from 6 to 20% of the population in any given year, depending on how it’s measured. Depression is a serious and common mental health condition, affecting around one in four people at some point during their life. It can be hard to beat because it has […]
7 Tips for Handling Pandemic Stress
Stress from covid-19 is a common problem that many people struggle with. When you are feeling stressed, it can be difficult to know how to best deal with the stress. In this blog post, I will discuss some tips and strategies for managing stress from covid-19. While these techniques won’t protect against covid-19 (obviously), they […]
Finding the right fit in a therapist
Is it just me or does finding a good therapist feel a bit like the search for finding a compatible partner? Although there isn’t an app to swipe through all of the available therapists within a 10km radius (yet), it feels just as tedious to find a good match. It can be challenging, expensive, and […]