While everyone has a unique personality, certain patterns of behavior recur across individuals and relationships. Some of these behaviors may be associated with diagnosable disorders, but I don’t want to get too deep into diagnoses here. Instead, I’ll stick with a term one of my…

In my role as a therapist, I have had many conversations with people regarding their beliefs about their worth as a person. Most of the time, when clients talk about their worth, they express a belief that their worth is a variable – that it…

There are a lot of factors affecting our overall mood and level of happiness. Some of these are environmental, such as our work or school situation, our families, and our level of social support. Other factors are more internal and thought-driven. But of all the…

In my last post, “What are triggers?” I defined a trigger as any form of stimulus that evokes recall (usually unconsciously) of a painful or traumatic event. In this article, I wanted to explore more closely what happens when one is triggered. If the trigger…

During my career as an individual therapist in Dallas, TX, I have noticed that many of my clients have something in common: they are kind, caring people, but they are not always very good at caring for themselves. Part of the reason for this is…