It’s hard to focus on the positive when you’re constantly looking at your appearance and pointing out your flaws. You feel disappointed as you look in the mirror and see something about you that you just don’t love. The criticisms that flood your thoughts as you look at your reflection make you feel like you’reContinueContinue reading “How Does Body Image Affect Mental Health? Tips from a New Jersey Eating Disorder Therapist”
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Reclaiming Your Life: Individual Trauma Therapy
By Jaunai Staton, BBA What Exactly Is Trauma? Trauma typically encompasses deeply distressing or excruciating experiences. Traumatic experiences can evoke an instinctual inclination to avoid. Trauma causes us to shield ourselves from intense emotions. We then resort to suppressing or completely avoiding how we feel. Facing and accepting trauma is no easy task. Recovery fromContinueContinue reading “Reclaiming Your Life: Individual Trauma Therapy”
Trauma and Intimate Relationships
Trauma, in itself, is so complex. When one or both people in a relationship have experienced trauma, it can create rigidity, conflict, and misunderstandings. Here are some ways trauma can show up in your relationships. By Jaunai Staton, BBA Understanding Trauma in Relationships Let’s say your partner forgets to call or text you when they’reContinueContinue reading “Trauma and Intimate Relationships”
Disordered Eating: What You Need To Know
What is disordered eating? Disordered eating encompasses a range of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors surrounding food and body image. Although your eating patterns may not fit the standards for a specific eating disorder, disordered eating patterns include a variety of abnormal behaviors that aren’t typical of healthy eating habits. By Melody Smith, LAC What doesContinueContinue reading “Disordered Eating: What You Need To Know”
Do I Have Trauma?
What Is Trauma? Having worked with clients for many years who have experienced something traumatic, I can tell you that no two people handle it in the same way. Trauma can be experienced individually, or it can happen simultaneously to an entire group of people, similar to the events that unfolded during 9/11. The bestContinueContinue reading “Do I Have Trauma?”
Does My Teen Need Therapy?
Teens are trying to discover who they are, while figuring out the world around them. This stage of life can pose a great deal of challenges for you and your teen. You wonder if it’s time to get your teen into therapy. By Melody Smith, LAC As your child grows and gains independence, you mayContinueContinue reading “Does My Teen Need Therapy?”
Stay Connected With Your Partner After the Therapy Session Ends
If you and your partner have felt distant lately, have you considered couples therapy? Therapy can be an invaluable resource in building a better connection with your partner. By Jaunai Staton, BBA and Lauren Grossbach, LMFT Therapy creates a space where you can both get ready to engage in self-awareness and self-exploration. Just by recognizingContinueContinue reading “Stay Connected With Your Partner After the Therapy Session Ends”
Is The Argument Really Over The Dishes?
Everyday bickering between couples is common. But what causes these arguments? Are you really upset about the dishes, or is there something else on your mind? By Jaunai Staton, BBA and Lauren Grossbach, LMFT Couples often argue about cleaning, division of labor, and hours spent working outside the home. Disagreements about the dishes quicklyContinueContinue reading “Is The Argument Really Over The Dishes?”
Stress and the Sunday Scaries
Just in time for the spooky Halloween season, let’s talk about the Sunday Scaries: feelings of dread, stress/anxiety, or sadness before the start of the work week. By Lauren Grossbach, LMFT You waited all week for the weekend. Finally some freedom and change of pace. By the time you just start to feel rested, youContinueContinue reading “Stress and the Sunday Scaries”
Five Signs of a Toxic Friendship
When people get married, they exchange vows. When someone starts a new job, they sign an agreement with the employer. What about friendships? And how do we know when a friendship is toxic? By Lauren Grossbach, LMFT Friendships don’t come with vows, contracts, or transcripts. We’re often left wondering what it means to have aContinueContinue reading “Five Signs of a Toxic Friendship”