Category: Mental Health Therapy

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Mental Health Therapy

3 Keys to Unlocking Your Mental Health Goals

If you’re anything like me, you like to do things efficiently. Why should leveling up your mental health be any different?  Route #1: Talk therapy ...
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Mental Health Therapy

Psst: There’s no such thing as an emotion

Finally, make some meaning out of the sensations in your body Can you keep a secret?  Emotions aren’t real. Even more mind-blowing: That’s actually good ...
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Mental Health Therapy

Everything Your Therapist Says About the Nervous System is DEAD WRONG

Let’s ditch the myths in favor of some hard science. The other morning, I was scrolling on social media when I ran across a post ...
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Mental Health Therapy

Is “Somatic Experiencing®” Psychotherapy…Or a Cult of Personality?

Is There a Place for Mysticism in Body-Based Therapy? Let’s unpack some utter nonsense I noticed in the New York Times article “Want to Fix ...
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Body Oriented Psychotherapy

Mental Health, Made Simple

Mental health is less complicated than you think—and it’s all about energy Warning: This is a long post. Stick with it, though, and you’ll know ...
Dear Polyvagal Theory, this is tough for me.
Bioenergetics

Sorry Poly (Vagal Theory), We’re Breaking Up

Breaking up with the polyvagal theory Have you ever spent a long time in what you thought was a pretty good relationship only to have ...
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Anger Management

Stress and Cancer are Related

Recently, I read an article by Mark J. Doolittle, PhD. He wrote it for the Stanford Center for Integrative Medicine. And in it, he wrote ...
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Adolescent Therapy

“Mental Health” Is Not The Problem, Failure to Manage Anger Is The Problem

“Mental health problems” do not lead to violence being perpetrated on society. A failure to manage anger does. We need to stop calling it a ...
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Bioenergetic Analysis - Body Psychotherapy

You Don’t Need A Therapist

No, you don’t need a therapist. You’re not crazy and there’s nothing really wrong with you. But you’re not happy are you? Can you quit ...
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Marriage Counseling Tampa

Therapy Doesn’t Work

When therapy doesn’t work, it’s because you are talking about your feelings or talking about events that happened in the past, you aren’t feeling them. ...

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