• Cultivating Self-Improvement Through Biblical Self-Compassion

    Cultivating biblical self-compassion feels like you’re swimming upstream against the current of everything you’ve been taught about spiritual growth. Many believers are hard on themselves, thinking it demonstrates humility and spiritual maturity, or creates an internal environment where grace exists, just not for them. This is a contradiction, leaving them exhausted and confused. They know intellectually that God loves them, yet they feel as though they don’t quite measure up. Faith then becomes a performance, rather than a relationship. [...]

  • Holistic Therapy: What is it?

    Holistic Therapy Holistic therapy. Holistic therapy. No matter how many times I say it, it still sounds strange in my mind. According to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, holistic means comprehensive and all-inclusive, so let’s talk about what holistic therapy is and who could benefit from it. As a therapist who practices holistic therapy, I still wanted to hear Google’s definition (does not going straight to ChatGPT make me not with the times?). Google states, “Holistic therapy is a comprehensive approach to [...]

  • Getting Help for Depression: You Don’t Have to Struggle Alone

    The sun shines through the curtains, implying that the world is awakening, and it is time to arise again, but she barely notices. Her entire being is pulled down in weight, and her mind is trapped in a graveyard of sadness. The only relief from the sorrow seems to be sleep. His smile quirks at the corners but never reaches his eyes. He cannot let his family know he is a failure in his mind. I should feel something…right? [...]

  • How to Recover From Caregiver Burnout in McKinney, Texas

    Although most of us think of caregiving for a loved one as a blessing, it is hard work that can lead to physical, emotional, and mental burnout. Caregiver burnout can lead to a diminished immune system, making it harder for you to recover from illnesses and raising your risk for cardiovascular disease and other conditions. The responsibility of a caregiver may fall on many of us with aging parents, ill children, or disabled spouses. Learn how to balance the [...]

  • Teen Help For Parents of Troubled Teens

    Teens go through major physical and emotional changes as they transition into adulthood. Growth spurts triggered by surges in hormones can contribute to mood swings, as can changes still happening in their brains. A teen’s brain is wired differently from a mature adult’s brain. It is still in the process of developing and being restructured, and does not reach full maturity until the mid-20s. The prefrontal cortex, which is the area primarily responsible for executive functions such as decision-making, [...]

  • Couples Counseling: A Renewed Commitment, Not a Failure

    Couples counseling is exciting. You have the opportunity to discuss your relationship with a perfect stranger. You get to talk about the ups, the downs, the in-betweens, and the mundane of your relationship. Again, exciting, right? Likely, that’s not what you thought about when you thought of the words couples counseling. For so many, it is a difficult subject to start to think about, let alone go further and meet with a counselor. Why? Simply put, stigma surrounding couples [...]

  • Controlling or Repressing Anger? Addressing Repressed Anger

    For the most part, whenever the topic of anger comes up, the call is to control our anger better and find ways to blow off steam to avoid bringing destruction into our lives and relationships. It can feel odd to then say that in some instances, a person may not be angry enough. There are many different issues a person may have with anger, and sometimes that might include avoiding it or pretending it doesn’t exist. The Idea Of Repressing [...]

  • Dealing With the Loss of a Parent

    Everything changes, and things don’t stay the same. These common reminders are especially true when something as tragic as the loss of a loved one occurs. In particular, the loss of a parent can set off a variety of emotions, thoughts, and memories that reinforce the painful reality that things don’t stay the same. If you lose a parent, there are healthy and unhealthy ways of dealing with the loss and grief that follows. Ways of Losing a Parent The [...]

  • What to Do with Childhood Emotional Neglect as an Adult 

    A common misconception is that the things we experienced as children can affect us as adults. However, that is exactly the case for so many. From a child’s perspective, neglect does not always feel harmful when it is happening, and they might not show signs of being affected by their environment. Neglect does not leave literal scars, but it shapes our belief systems. It is only decades later that childhood emotional neglect begins affecting us, leaving us unsure of what to do about it. Latchkey Love In the 1970s [...]

  • Finding Relief from Your Phobia with Eye Movement Therapy in McKinney, Texas

    Having any phobia is a terrible burden to live with because it starts to feel as if it controls everything you do. You have to plan your days around avoiding certain places, situations, or activities to escape the thing that triggers your fear. The non-stop worry chips away at your mental and physical well-being, whether due to a fear of flying, animals, heights, spiders, or something else. One way to work through those fears without diving straight into what [...]

  • Coping With Divorce as a Believer

    Life can be an unpredictable and winding path, taking you places you never thought you’d be. No one who sets off to get married does so thinking they want to get divorced, even if they know it’s a possibility. This could be doubly so for a believer who holds to their faith in Jesus and is walking in the biblical understanding and purpose of marriage. If this is you, how then do you cope in such circumstances? The Challenges [...]

  • The Link Between ADHD Procrastination and Perfectionism

    Many people with ADHD are seen to be lazy or disinterested in their studies, tasks at work, friendships, and even in their romantic relationships. This is because most of those with ADHD are procrastinators, frequently leaving things unfinished and appointments unattended. While it might be easy for others to judge them, the truth is that their tendency to procrastinate is far more complex than it would seem. The tendency to procrastinate in people with ADHD is often linked to an [...]