What conflict means to (many) people: Unpredictable, scary, confrontation, violence, never ending, an “opportunity” to trash the other person’s character.
Conflict Resolution (the down and dirty list) and How to Keep the Fights Clean Read More »
Given the profound emotional and relational implications of money, the integration of financial
literacy into therapeutic practice can be a powerful tool for marriage and family therapists and will ultimately benefit clients.
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Sport as Social Glue: Finding Common Ground in a Divided World As a San Diego therapist, I spend a lot of time watching how people regulate — or don’t — under stress. So when I watched San Diego neighborhoods rally around the FIFA World Cup this month, I noticed something clinically interesting: sport was doing,
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Are Mai Tai’s For Life Truly The End-All-Be-All In Retirement? I specialize in anxiety and resilience work here in San Diego, and a version of this question from clients approaching retirement: is doing nothing actually the goal? At a recent Navy SEAL Foundation conference in San Diego, I was impacted by Yale professor Dr. Laurie
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Discover the mother of all morning routines to stop reacting and start designing purposeful days. Build intention, boost brain health, and reclaim your energy with this powerful ultimate morning routine. As a San Diego therapist specializing in anxiety and resilience, I observe my clients wrestling through “the night before” they make big morning changes, in
Healing After a Breakup: How to Get to Choice or Free After a breakup, you may feel stuck replaying the same painful memories over and over. Old habits can control you like marionette strings. Getting to choice or free marks a powerful shift. You move from feeling trapped in emotional cycles to consciously choosing how
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In my San Diego practice, I often see clients whose anxiety and low mood improve dramatically once these basics are back in place — before we even get to deeper work. Discover your daily emotional health prescription with simple practices like exercise, connection, and mindfulness. Fill it every day to build resilience against life’s pressures
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Turning the Corner: How to Make Lasting Change in Habits and Life Turning the corner in your habits and life is that powerful moment when you finally move from wanting change to actually making it stick. Whether you want to get out of a toxic relationship, lose weight, start working out, wake up earlier, launch
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