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 | Dec 12, 2022 | body psychotherapy, Coaching For the Therapist, Connect, Reconceive, RECONCEIVE PODCAST: Connecting with You, Resources, Therapy, Uncategorized
Health Practitioners in a Crisis of Disconnection Helper burnout creates disconnection of all kinds. As therapists (or other healthcare professionals), this kind of fatigue isolates us from our bodies, our creativity, our sense of meaning, and our intimate...
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 | 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 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 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...
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