Your #human brain also possesses the unique #capacity for self-awareness. When you can step back and become aware of your automatic responses, you have the power to decide whether it’s wise to actually act automatically or not. #brainwise #goodtherapy #deeptherapist #CORwork

Grieving the loss of a loved one can take way more than a year and that was even the case before the pandemic. #loss #grief #time #lovedones #pandemicloss #deeptherapist

Disappointment is a specific flavor of grief, and it’s ubiquitous in times of #lost dreams. If not allowed, disappointment can morph into toxic emotions like resentment, shame, or depression. #disappointment #emotions #deeptherapist

The #stories we create to explain our painful emotions are usually unconscious, yet these stories play a crucial role in how we treat ourselves. By making these stories conscious, you can learn to shift the narrative toward self-reassuring & self-compassion. #deeptherapist

Grieving people don’t need the extra weight of feeling bad about feeling pain. #yourgriefisvalid #deeptherapist

Creating a mammalian environment that fosters clear-eyed presence with grief is not easy. #presence #connection #DEEPtherapist

To try to bounce back to our old ways of being is to refuse to accept that there is no going back as much as we’d like to, and to turn away from the pain that comes from radical growth that’s being forced upon us whether we want to face it or not. #deeptherapist #nogoingback

There’s no way to move, no way to grow, if it feels like you’re required EITHER to love and appreciate your parents, OR to admit their flaws and therefore feel anger or grief. That’s an unsolvable dilemma for many people. #deeptherapist

I want to be a voice that calls those of us who have the inner strength and social support to bear being cracked wide open to do so. Permanently.
#Deeptherapist #CORwork

In the process of that complete shattering and rebuilding, I had to bear intense existential emotions — despair, helplessness, lack of control, mortality, loneliness, anguish. All in the context of culture and age-group that did not want to know anything about my experience. #deeptherapist #CORWork