Trauma Treatment EMDR

Trauma Treatment: EMDR Eye movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) Once considered unorthodox, eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) has earned accolades as an effective trauma treatment for adults, youth and children, supported by more than twenty randomized controlled studies, and is now considered one of the two preferred trauma therapies recommended by the World Health Organization (Farkas, […]

IMPOSTER SYNDROME

IMPOSTER SYNDROME Imposter syndrome may not be a familiar term for you, but I can guarantee it is something you and most everyone you know has experienced, especially the outwardly appearing “successful” people. Imposter syndrome (a term coined in 1978 by psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes) describes a concept where individuals are not able […]

The Dis-ease of Busyness

The Dis-ease of Busyness While the above novelty mug is meant to be funny, chronic “busy-ness” is seriously harming us.  Scientific studies at Harvard revealed that bragging about being busy affects the same pleasure sensations of the brain we derive from food and money (however, bragging about being busy is considered way more socially acceptable […]

The Only Constant is Change

The Only Constant is Change I hold a privileged position of playing witness to many peoples change process.  I believe that “personality” is a system of forces in conflict with one another, but our core Self is unconsciously driven towards optimism, growth, and self-actualization.  Despite this, I still find myself constantly in awe of the […]