For many people, avoiding talking about or even thinking about aspects of their lives that are the source of pain is a strategy they turn to often. While avoiding pain can feel like a tempting strategy to get through life, most people find that eventually what you don’t face finds a way of expressing itself in other ways. Most people find that when they actually do face the difficult aspects of their lives and emotions and find a way to sit with the difficulty rather than avoiding it, they experience much more peace and relief as a result. Many studies show that people who open up in talk therapy see benefits in their life

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How exactly does psychotherapy help you grow, learn, and heal? For some schools of thought, the answer to this question is found in prescriptive tools or techniques, manualized treatments, and medications. In Depth or Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy which I practice, the answer to this question is found much more in the quality of the therapeutic relationship between therapist and client. What some people want when they enter the psychotherapy office is to have a kind of experience in a relationship, a new kind of experience they might have never had before, where they feel heard, understood, encouraged, and supported in a deep embodied way.

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Today I want talk a little bit about a couple of ways that you can ground yourself when you're feeling overwhelmed. So, when you have a lot of anxiety or a lot of overwhelm, as a lot of us are having during this pandemic, it's important that you have a couple of tools in your back pocket that you can use to help yourself calm down and ground. So, I'm going to go through a couple of different ways that you can quickly and hopefully, very easily, bring your activation level down and bring your anxiety level down a couple of notches.

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