Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. While this may not be as immediately gratifying as World Taco Day, the existence of a month celebrating mental health speaks volumes to the decreasing societal stigma surrounding the topic. Although so many of us would give anything not to be so viscerally aware of our own mental health, this time reminds us that we are not alone. Here are some resources for acknowledging and celebrating Mental Health Awareness month and for mental health in general.
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What to expect when starting therapy
For many of us, starting therapy is a huge step, often a vulnerable acknowledgement that we want help and support. And for most, even finding a therapist is a chore in and of itself -- how do you find someone? What do all of those different acronyms and lingo-laced phrases even mean? And perhaps most importantly, what can I expect out of therapy itself?
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Attachment: Finding security in intimate relationships and our sense of self
Attachment had been a recent buzzword. But what is attachment and how does it make sense of how we connect and communicate with others? In a very basic sense, attachment is our innate desire to feel safe in our close relationships and goes back to the way we learned to respond to our caregivers in early childhood.
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Social instability, chronic stress, & listening with a settled body
In a recent survey, the American Psychological Association (APA) found that 84% of adults reported feeling ongoing stress about the state of the country. The sources of our stress are almost too familiar to need naming: a global pandemic, political instability, and collective uncertainty. Striking a balance between our own inner needs and the demands of the social-political world means, in part, thinking about how we relate to the media, and how we relate to our bodies.
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Living with Uncertainty in 2021
Most of us will remember 2020 as the year that certainty suddenly collapsed: our daily routines, our relationships with others, and our sense of social stability disappeared overnight. We have, hopefully, adapted and found the structure and security we need. It is worth pausing, however, to ask: what have we learned about living with uncertainty, and how can we carry these lessons forward in 2021?
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Home for the holidays?
“Nobody messes with the holidays!” a client of mine lamented last week. She is right: for better or worse, we rarely mess with our sacred annual rituals at this time of year. 2020 is clearly the exception - as most traditions are turned upside down or cancelled, and we are all attempting to adjust and figure out how to make these days special despite the pandemic.
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Gratitude…or toxic positivity?
During this season, there’s always a lot of talk about gratitude. It can often look like, “Things are painful, but I have so much to be grateful for.” This framework, which is even more visible this year than most, however, represents a common misconception: that gratitude should be able to cancel out pain and, in fact, if it doesn’t, that we should feel guilty for our insufficient gratitude.
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When Should You Seek Out Couples Therapy? The answer is in the asking.
When should you go to couples therapy? Whenever you want, or whenever it occurs to you. Put another way: there’s no wrong time to seek couples therapy.
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What is EMDR?
EMDR or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a kind of therapy that allows people to properly process traumatic events and/or experiences. During trauma, our bodies’ fight or flight response can lead to trauma being ineffectively processed which, in turn, can result in PTSD, depression, anxiety, and other trauma responses.
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Grieving our losses: How to cope with what we've lost during the pandemic
It may be the actual understatement of the year to say that 2020 has been hard. So what do we do? How do we cope with all that we have lost, all that we are missing, all that we never imagined we would have had to give up?
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What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on creating change by uprooting irrational thoughts and negative beliefs. Considered a “solution oriented” form of therapy, CBT is built on the idea that if we can change our thoughts and beliefs, we can positively affect our reactions and behavior.
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How we're adapting to COVID-19
We never thought we’d have to figure out how to do therapy amidst a pandemic. And yet, here we are. So we wanted to take this moment to connect with you and share the measures we are taking to keep you safe, healthy, and receiving excellent care.
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Hot Topic: Self Care
Therapist Kelsey Paulsen addresses a trendy and often misunderstood phrase: “self care.” She breaks it down for us: what self care is and isn’t, and offers a helpful perspective during a time when we are all learning to nurture and nourish ourselves in new ways.
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Embracing Those “Wrong” Feelings
Most of us grow up with a complicated relationship with anxiety. Self Space therapist Anna Shwab Eidelson helps simplify how our anxieties are trying to help us, and how to engage these uncomfortable feelings.
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A Day in the Life of a (Quarantined) Naturopath
Vibrant Seattle naturopath, Dr. Jenna Rayachoti, shares her new routines during quarantine: from dancing to chocolate to slowing down, and how small adjustments can be the most significant.
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Now We Write A New Story
Therapist Julie Wilson, a philosopher as well as a psychotherapist, grapples with what it means to let go of our old narratives and write a new story.
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4th Trimester
If you’re a mother, know a mother, or are working to mother/nurture yourself during this time, I know you will appreciate the perspective and permission Emma brings to be right where you are.
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Choose Your Own Adventure: A Self-Care Game
Therapist Kristen Martinez shares a helpful humorous resource with us: “It’s a choose-your-own-adventure type game that helps to suss out what exactly self-care looks like for each of us at any given time.”
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Pregnancy During a Pandemic
“Right now, for some of us, to allow ourselves to be not ok is a sign of emotional health.” Therapist Jenny Wade shares about pregnancy during a pandemic.
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The Nile Project
There are few people I know who have creative energy just spilling out of their pores. My sister, Stacie, is one of them. Here, she shares some of her story and introduces “The Nile Project.”
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