by Deborah Cox | Feb 26, 2023 | Anxiety & Calm, body psychotherapy, bodywork, Coaching For the Therapist, Connect, cultural healing, Feel Better, Ideas, love, Reconceive, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships, Resources, Uncategorized
Relationship Self Care for Therapists When was the last time you applied your counseling skills to yourself to think about your own love life as a critical component of your self-care? Relationships form the essential bedrock of self-care. All the yoga and massage in...
by Deborah Cox | Jan 15, 2023 | Anxiety & Calm, Coaching For the Therapist, Connect, cultural healing, love, parenting, Reconceive, RECONCEIVE PODCAST: Connecting with You, Relationships
Why Relational Self-Care Matters to Your Work Do you think of your love life as a critical component of your self-care? If you’re like most of us, probably not. Let’s see . . . work out: check, sleep eight hours: check, feel close with someone I love? . . . Not so...
by Deborah Cox | Nov 14, 2022 | Anxiety & Calm, Artistic Healing, body psychotherapy, bodywork, Coaching For the Therapist, Connect, Feel Better, Ideas, Podcasts, Reconceive, RECONCEIVE PODCAST: Connecting with You, Relational Cultural Theory, Therapy, Uncategorized
Sometimes solo therapy feels pretty bleak . . . A client tells you he has no emotion as he reveals his father’s suicide. Therapy fails to gain traction and he continues to not feel. Another client has an auto-immune disorder that started when she discovered her...
by Deborah Cox | Oct 1, 2020 | anger, Anxiety & Calm, Becoming More of Your True Self, cultural healing, Feel Better, parenting, Reconceive, Relational Cultural Theory, Uncategorized
Mindful anger means experiencing the emotion in an: 1. awake, 2. deliberate, and 3. self-nurturing way. Let’s break this down a bit so we can see how to love ourselves through difficult moments. Last week, I had an experience that allowed me to practice this. The...
by Deborah Cox | Sep 2, 2020 | anger, Anxiety & Calm, Becoming More of Your True Self, cultural healing, dissociation, EMDR, Feel Better, getting grounded, parenting, Reconceive, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships, Uncategorized
When anger corrodes. Wait, does it? How can you tell when your anger morphs from a moment of clarity and self-protection to something else entirely? Anger has its destructive side . . . at least Ursula K. Le Guin believes it does. I reserve the right, at the end of...
by Deborah Cox | Aug 15, 2020 | anger, Anxiety & Calm, Becoming More of Your True Self, Coaching For the Therapist, cultural healing, dissociation, EMDR, Feel Better, getting grounded, Mood, Reconceive, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships, Therapy, Uncategorized, Write and Heal
How does anger help us exit sick systems? Anger helps us exit sick systems. How? Anger allows information processing, because it is a part of the learning curve. So, let’s look at how anger facilitates timely exit when we need it. First, sick systems tend to have...
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