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How To Know If Therapy Is Right For You – Part 2
People come to therapy at different times, for different reasons. In Part 1 of this series (you can read it here) , we explored three great reasons why someone would seek counseling: Your life has somehow changed recently You can’t …
3 Easy Ways to Practice Meditation for Reduced Stress For Beginners
It can seem like meditation can be a difficult thing to practice. Being still and being quiet doesn’t come naturally to all of us! But the benefits of meditation are undeniable. It can reduce your levels of stress, make you …
How to know if therapy is right for you – Part 1
Maybe you’re feeling down today. You may be wrestling with a personal or professional problem. You might not know if anyone can or should help. You may feel like it’s not really a big deal, or if you should draw …
How To Get The Most Out Of Your Therapy
Therapy is a commitment. You invest your time and money into it, so you should probably make sure you get a return on your investment, right? There are 3 things you should do to make sure you get the most …
Anger: What No One Will Tell You – Part 2
Has anyone ever told you that your anger can be a friend? Probably not. It’s easy to stigmatize anger because of its effects. We have all seen some of the hurt and resentment caused by unhealthy expressions of anger. Many …
Anger: What No One Will Tell You – Part 1
Anger is a universal human emotion. We all experience it, but the way we experience it can be unique to each individual person. Some of us experience anger by our rapid heart rate. Some of us feel our face get …
5 Ways to Be Friends with Yourself
We all know friends are critical to your emotional well-being. But when was the last time you thought about being friends with yourself? Most of us have a complicated relationship with ourselves. Some of us may not like the way …
3 Ways to Set Healthy Boundaries in Any Relationship
Setting boundaries can seem intimidating and uncomfortable. But today, right now, I’d invite you to reframe how you think about boundaries. Instead of fearing boundaries, let’s think of boundaries as tools. They’re tools we can use that will help us …
How to Tell the Difference Between Healthy and Unhealthy Boundaries
Imagine a baseball field without an outfield. Or a country without a border. Boundaries help define identity. If we don’t know where the US starts and Canada ends, for instance, that could lead to some major diplomatic issues! The same …
Anxiety Isn’t Your Enemy – What It’s Telling You, and What You Can Do About It
It may sound strange to many of you to say “Anxiety Isn’t Your Enemy” – especially when fighting it can seem like such an exhausting battle! But in this blog, you’ll learn how to reframe the way you think about …
Over the Line! How Personal Boundaries Can Change Your Life
Do you ever feel responsible for the emotions or actions of other people? Maybe it’s your boss, your partner, the person you just started dating, or people in your family. Either way, you may find yourself avoiding difficult conversations, modifying …
EMDR: What You Need to Know & How it Can Help
It is difficult to consider our own experiences with trauma – at least willingly. It’s easier to maintain some distance, to keep the thoughts and feelings at arm’s length, or to minimize them altogether. We can get tricked into a …
50 Shades of Anger
When was the last time you got angry? If it’s been a while it might be hard to remember what caused it or why you got upset. Maybe it was recent – just this week, even – and right now …
Telehealth: Our Answer to a Changing World
It’s difficult to not be concerned with the state of our world right now. It seems like everywhere we turn, and each time we refresh our Twitter feeds, we’re faced with change. COVID-19 has altered the way we interact, how …
Food, Fitness and Feelings
In the work we do at Social House Wellness Center, relationships come up often. Whether it’s the one between partners, spouses, or parents and children, how we relate is important. The relationship you have with your mom, the toxic dynamic …
Some Relationship Advice
If you’re reading this, you must have already heard that “communication is key.” It is a common suggestion for making a relationship work because it is crucial! Communicating about the good stuff is easy, but we tend to stop doing …
Why can’t we be friends?
Quite often, I have clients that are having a hard time finding friends. This is often the reason why they have moved from trying to find informal emotional help (talking with friends and family) to formal help (me! a counselor). …
A New Way to DIY-Date Yourself!
DIY is all-the-trend now-a-days, but I challenge you to take it to an entirely different level. Although our society can be very independent compared to more eastern cultures, we have become very dependent on others to make ourselves happy. There …
Enigma of a Stigma
Merriam-Webster defines enigma as “something hard to understand or explain” and stigma as “a mark of shame or discredit.” I believe therapy’s stigma is quite the enigma. For some reason, mental healthcare is quite taboo and carries a burden of …
Do only crazy people go to therapy?
This is probably the most common thought about therapy I hear, and unfortunately one of the largest misconceptions. I have a few different thoughts about this, and please excuse my soapbox as this is one of the things I am …
To therapy, or not to therapy. That is the question.
Some of the influencers in my professional life are practitioners of Reality Therapy and Choice Theory, created by William Glasser. Though I don’t consider this my foundational theory (like Adam), there are elements that I appreciate. Why would I make …
How do Choice Theory & Reality Therapy Work?
“Blog article on choice theory & reality therapy” for Adam Rahman February 1, 2018 It’s a fact that people are healthier when involved in positive relationships. That said, the psychotherapeutic methods of choice theory and reality therapy teach that personal …
