What To Do If You Feel Stuck In An Unhappy Marriage With Kids
You feel stuck in an unhappy marriage with kids. What do you do? If you stay, the future looks personally bleak. And what are you modeling for the kids? If you leave the unhappy marriage, your kids suffer. Or would they be better off without the bad modeling? It’s confusing and complicated, there’s no doubt […]
Will PTSD Go Away Without Treatment?
Guest blog post by Martha (Marty) Dennen, LCPC, SEP “Will PTSD go away without treatment” is an often-asked question in my office. The short answer is that with treatment PTSD symptoms can go away or greatly lessen. Unfortunately, untreated PTSD often results in more suffering, decreased functioning, and increased depression and anxiety symptoms. So, how […]
6 Tips for Better Workplace Communication
Communication in the workplace can be a challenge. Here are six quick tips to help. 1. Slow down…. Multitasking is an essential skill for survival in the fast-paced office today. It can distract from face-to-face human interaction when you are half listening and half doing something else. Slow down–a client, co-worker, and/or superior who has […]
The Richness of Silence
Since I got back from my 3-month silent meditation retreat in Nepal, I have been asked (more times than I can count) “So how was it?” I’ve found that’s a question that’s really hard to answer briefly! The experience of being silent, while watching, learning, and living within the external and internal worlds, is a rich experience […]
PANDAS – One Year Later
On May 28, 2015 our blog featured a post by Life Care Wellness therapist Tiffany Tumminaro, who vulnerably shared about her family’s struggle with identifying and learning how to manage her then 6 year-old daughter’s PANDAS/PANS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptoccal/Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome), a medical condition that mimics severe OCD with physical […]