Let’s be real: Teenagers can suck, big time. Sometimes it seems like their job is to negatively impact their parent’s mood. If they aren’t ignoring us, rolling their eyes at us, or sighing dramatically, they are pretty much cooped up in their rooms on a device of their liking. And yet, we have to live […]
I’m the Fattest one in Spin Class
I have been spinning for a few years now. I can’t say I took to it right away, since the seat jabbed into my crotch and it was really quite uncomfortable. In fact I may have thought, “Why would anyone want to do this?” But after a few sessions, I was hooked. By hooked, I […]
The crappy truth about anti-depressant withdrawal
Here it is: lately I suck. I feel angry and cranky, and moody. I’m coming off a very low dose of an anti-depressant. I’m not sure when I stopped needing this anti-depressant; I’ve been on it for years and was prescribed it for irritability. I do know that I have a part that is screaming at […]
The Mess that is Me
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. I’m in a “lazy” stage. It seems my pattern is to take a big leap, then pull back a bit from life. If you read my last blog, you know my big leap was that I was planning to take a trip by myself in November, and that […]
How to Make a Decision without Stuffing your Feelings or Jumping Ship
Decisions: The subject seems to be coming up quite a bit in my therapy sessions recently. My clients are facing a multitude of really big things: ending marriage, job changes, moving, financial problems, etc. My advice never wavers: don‘t make any decision based on a negative emotion like fear, guilt, shame or resentment. My client’s response is […]