Panic Attack vs Anxiety Attack Not many people know this but there's a difference between a panic attack vs anxiety attack. In today’s world, I often hear the phrase “panic...
Panic Attack vs Anxiety Attack
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Category: Anxiety
Build Your Distress Tolerance
Build Your Distress Tolerance If you have ever taken a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) course, then you are likely familiar with the idea of distress tolerance. This is a...
The Anxiety Spiral
Are You In An Anxiety Spiral Imagine something triggered your anxiety. You start to feel tense, maybe your heart starts racing a bit. Then…here comes the anxiety spiral...
Healthy vs. Unhealthy Coping Tools
Healthy vs. Unhealthy Coping Tools Coping tools, strategies, or methods are probably phrases that you are familiar with, but do you know the difference between healthy vs....
Overeating To Cover Up Emotions
Can I Stop Overeating To Cover My Emotions? When you feel sad, angry, stressed out, or even happy, do you first look to finding a delicious meal, snack, or something to...
Tuning Into Our Bodies
Tuning Into Our Bodies Have you ever felt a little bit off for no reason? Have you ever noticed that you’re more on edge than normal and had no idea why? If you have, you are not...
How To Stop An Anxiety Spiral
Can I Control My Anxiety? Anxiety can become crippling and prevent us from living the life we have always dreamed of and at times we need to gain distance from our worries...
Managing Daily Stress
How are you doing managing daily stress? I don’t believe many of us are strangers to heightened stress levels in today’s time. Productivity, success, and achievement are guiding...
The Importance of the real “F” word…Forgiveness
We all have been hurt before by someone. Those hurt feelings can really be heart wrenching and a feel punch in the stomach. Personally, I have a very hard time with forgiveness....
Can vs Can’t Control
Do you focus on what you CAN control, or what you CAN'T? A common theme that I have been seeing in my clients, friends, family and even myself is putting focus on things that we...
Are You Letting Your Emotions Control You?
Are you letting your emotions control you instead of the other way around? Maybe you get angry and lash out with insults and criticisms you regret later. Or, maybe you feel like...
The Blame Game
All blame is a waste of time. How can I say that, do you suppose? I mean, come on...there are times when people deserve to get blamed. There IS such a thing as "fault" after...
Your Thoughts Make Your Reality
The stories we tell ourselves influence how we behave, decisions we make, and how we see others and ourselves. What if thoughts we have, make a reality we don't like? Ask...
10 Signs You Have Abandonment Issues
Abandonment issues? Wondering for sure if you have them or not? You don’t have to have been left in a basket on a church doorstep in order to have abandonment issues. I myself...
Why Do You NEED To Win The Argument?
Why do some arguments never end? Why do you need to win? Why do you just have to get the other person to see it your way? These are the very things that keep many couples...
The Valley Of The Shadow
Folks come to my office asking for counsel on all kinds of things. Anger issues, help with communication, depression, anxiety, marital problems, trauma or addiction...
Is Your Pain Too Much?
Is your pain too great? Who gets to say if it’s too big, too small, or just right? When trauma strikes, make no mistake, you will feel the pain of it. You may sense that you...
Poor Communication
Maneuvering through your own reactions takes understanding and knowledge of yourself. How you learned to manage your disappointment and frustration over the years contributes to...
3 Parts of You
Do you know the different parts of yourself? Most of us are only vaguely aware of the 3 different parts that I like to talk about in counseling: The Adult, The Little Boy/Girl,...
Stress and Anxiety
Life events trigger your brain to release certain chemicals. Your brain is capable of releasing seratonins, dopamines, and panic inducing chemicals. When there is a great deal of...
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