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 | Apr 25, 2022 | Becoming More of Your True Self, body psychotherapy, bodywork, Coaching For the Therapist, Connect, Feel Better, love, Reconceive, RECONCEIVE PODCAST: Connecting with You, Relationships, The Psychotherapy in Everything, Therapy, Uncategorized
All One Thing: Body, Mind, Love Since its inception, psychology claims to be the study of the mind. Sounds true, right? Medicine claims the study of the body and how it can be healed through substances and surgery. Psychology takes the other stuff, the stuff of...
by Deborah Cox | Oct 12, 2020 | anger, child maltreatment, Connect, cultural healing, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships
Sibling Political Anger I just spent a Saturday with my brother – after years of unspoken anger, political divisions, and very little contact. Three years my junior, he lives just twenty minutes away, Yet, we see each other perhaps once or twice a year. Michael and I...
by Deborah Cox | Sep 17, 2020 | anger, Becoming More of Your True Self, cultural healing, Feel Better, parenting, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships, Uncategorized
How does anger help with compassion? Yesterday I talked with a friend who grasped, for the first time, how a family member had emotionally abused her. In about five minutes, she went from confused and ashamed . . . to angry, as she pieced together an incident in which...
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...
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