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The “Side Effects” of Healing [Video Transcription]
This is not officially part of my somatic series, but they’re related like cousins. I wanted to quickly talk about some “side effects” of healing somatically that I’ve noticed in my clinical work with clients and in my own personal journey. Here’s a link to the video. I couldn’t make a video without making sure the information also…
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MHC4OC – How You Can Support Free Therapy for Black People!
Wait? What is MHC4OC Again? Mental Health Counseling for Our Communities is my private practice where I am providing free trauma-focused, somatic therapy for Black people. June 1st is the 1st anniversary of the practice! Time flies right? I’m going to be starting a fundraising campaign in May leading up to the anniversary month in June.…
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How to Self-Care in the Middle of a Pandemic
I’m writing this update to my intro piece on self-care because the COVID-19 pandemic, quarantines, “social distancing,” etc. (heavy on the etc.) have thrown a whole wrench into our routines, our ways of coping, and the things we used to do that made life worth living. I already wrote an update to how to make…
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Child Abuse & Neglect
Note: This piece was very hard for me to write so it might be hard for someone to read. If you start feeling upset, anxious, etc. while reading this, please take a break to love on yourself before coming back to this. If you aren’t sure how to tell when you need to take a break,…
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Pandemic Mental Health Safety Plan
A pandemic is a whole other ball game. We are dealing with social isolation, government incompetence and cruelty (at least in the US), institutional/medical racism, etc. This pandemic is adding so much extra stress into our lives. Stress isn’t a light-weight thing. Long term stress weakens our immune system, makes us physically sick, messes with…
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The Process of Change Part 2: Taking Action and Looking to the Future
This is a Part 2 of a 2-part series about change, written using knowledge about the psychology of change so that we can all be on the same page about the actual steps of making a change in your life, what it means to do the work of change, and how to see if someone…
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Is It Time to Leave Your Therapist?
The ending of any relationship is hard, but it feels especially difficult and unique when it’s the professional relationship between a client and a therapist. Whether the relationship was new and you were just feeling them out or you’ve been seeing them for years and they know your everything…there’s just something so unique and special…
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Basic Crisis Intervention: ‘Cause Sometimes All We Got Is Us
I’m sitting back and letting myself be in awe for a moment at how messed up the world is on so many levels and in so many areas that I even have to write this piece. The same way that I mentioned in the drugs 101 piece here that we often have to rehab ourselves,…
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Life Reassessment: Checking In On Your Life For the New Year
So here you are in the new year. Congratulations by the way. Regardless of anything else, you made it to 2019. The new year is a great time to really look at where you are in your life. I’m a huge supporter of people reflecting over their lives and taking stock some time to time.…
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Reader Request: Explaining Mental Health Status to Parents
This is a reader request (Thank you again, by the way). This post will cover 1)Doing some self-reflection to sort out what is making you want to talk to your parents about your mental health status, 2)Figuring out how safe the situation is for this, 3)Preparing for the talk, 4)Ways to go about having this…