by Deborah Cox | Mar 21, 2016 | Mood
Food, Love, and Attachment Trauma Eating is fraught with complications these days. I’m not a nutritionist, but I work with people who have food issues….People who binge and then feel ashamed and worthless, people who starve and then binge, and people who eat...
by Deborah Cox | Feb 29, 2016 | Mood
Depression and Stuckness Lately, my fifteen-year-old tells me I am too rigid and he no longer believes in anything I believe in. It makes me a little weepy to hear this, but it challenges me to let go of my pre-planned images of how he would grow up. If I tried too...
by Deborah Cox | Jan 11, 2016 | Anxiety & Calm, Becoming More of Your True Self, Coaching For the Therapist, Feel Better, Mood, Write and Heal
People ask me, “How do you do what you do and stay calm? How do you not go crazy with all the stories you absorb from people who are hurting?” I say, “Sometimes I do go crazy.” I’m not immune to people’s stress and it can make me crazy tired…..Which is why I...
by Deborah Cox | Dec 12, 2015 | Anxiety & Calm, Becoming More of Your True Self, EMDR, Relax. You're normal., Therapy
Something tells me I’m a very bad person. Under the bridge…..beneath, “It’s my fault,” lives a more troubling idea…It hides in us like a troll under a bridge. Anyone who’s survived religious abuse knows the old thought-training dies...
by Deborah Cox | May 1, 2015 | Mood
You feel a kind of dread, nearly all the time, even though you take an antidepressant and use logical affirmations on yourself: I have nothing to fear. I am all right. I can forgive myself for not being perfect. The dread eats your lunch, steals your relaxation,...
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