Individual, Relationship, and Family Therapist in Houston, Texas
•
Sleep is important, but it can feel impossible when your brain won’t shut off. There are guidelines for sleep hygiene to help establish your nighttime routine and make it easier, but there are still reasons you might not be able to fall asleep. If you deal with a lot of stress and…
•
Everyone has an opinion on mental health tips, but it’s hard to know what will actually work. We hear all kinds of ideas and suggestions and some of them are downright annoying. Things like “just change how you think about that” are obnoxious when you’re struggling with stress and mental…
•
How do you know when you’re stressed? People talk about de-stressing all the time, but how do you know you’re stressed to begin with? I defined stress in an earlier blog post as “pressured concern,” and that’s great, but how do you actually know when you’re stressed and what you’re stressed about? Here’s an…
•
Working from home sounds like a dream for many, but it can be hard to put in place and keep your focus at the beginning. Many people are experiencing this for the first time now due to current health concerns. I’ve learned a lot of things from years of online…
•
Let’s be honest: it’s really easy to hate everything and everyone when you’re tired, hungry, and haven’t been taking care of yourself. Our bodies start shutting out everything and everyone in efforts to get us to focus on whatever that need is. We don’t always interpret these signs, though: suddenly…
•
It’s time to make some better resolutions. You’ve probably read so many articles already on how to make better goals and keep your resolutions. Break them down into smaller chunks! Write them down! Share them with others for accountability! And all of those are very helpful things to do. The…
•
There are times when you try as hard as you can, but you just can’t think positively. You see people making lists of things they’re grateful for. You hear that, especially when you’re going through depression or heavy self-criticism, thinking positive thoughts instead will help. Saying nice things to yourself…
•
I found a guide on the internet on how to succeed in absolutely anything when I was a teenager. The guide prompted me through identifying, setting, and planning out goals that would fulfill me as an individual. I don’t remember what I searched for to find it or why I was looking.…
•
The constant chatter of anxious thoughts and feelings is frustrating and exhausting. Sometimes it feels like the harder you fight it, the louder and messier it gets! What gives? How do you make it just be quiet already? One of the ways I understand anxiety is that it is a…
•
Our minds can be a personal prison sometimes, locking us in and berating us for everything we “should” or “could” have done differently but didn’t. And sometimes it locks us in and plays looping video of events we might not have had control over, but that we can’t help but…