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Relationships and Blueprints

“What happened to us?” is a question I get asked a lot in the therapy clinic. As a relationship therapist, you hear a lot of questions, and you see a lot of people looking for answers. One question always gets asked the most, though. “What happened to us?”. It’s a short question but a complex one.

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Improving Your Relationship with Empathy

On empathy Brene Brown has said (you definitely want to watch this short video … go ahead, click the link), “Empathy fuels connection, sympathy drives disconnection.”

But, what is empathy, and how is it different from sympathy? I would define sympathy as saying to someone, “that sounds hard.” Empathy on the other hand may be saying something more like, “that sounds hard,” … but adding feeling to it…

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Grief VS Trauma

Before talking about how grief and trauma are similar and different, I want to start by talking about “reality.” I put that in quotes, because our “reality” is dependent on our perspective and experiences, which are subjective. I like to remember this by saying, “perspective/experience = reality”. Let me give you a few examples!

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Back to School Anxiety?

This may be an especially challenging year to send your kids back to school, from kindergarten and elementary school all the way up to high school and college. Your child may be dealing with the effects of…well…2020. But regardless, back to school anxiety is a very valid issue, and we want to give you some tips to make the transition smoother!

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