Anxiety’s Effects on Relationships

Anxiety’s Effects on Relationships

Relationship anxiety is when you experience more times of excessive worrying about the relationship than actually enjoying it. You could be really scared that the relationship will end as soon as it starts. Out of fear, you may even go so far as to end the relationship. To avoid doing something you will regret, here is how anxiety can affect your relationship.

Betrayal Trauma: What it is and How to Heal

Betrayal Trauma: What it is and How to Heal

Betrayal trauma is the emotional impact of your experience after your trust or well-being is violated. It is most often experienced in attachment relationships, like caregivers and children, or in romantic partnerships. You have to continue to rely on the betrayer for support, care, shelter, or other basic needs. These experiences of betrayal can be so traumatic that you feel you will never want to trust anyone again.

I’m Experiencing a Gender Identity Crisis! Is That Normal at My Age?

I’m Experiencing a Gender Identity Crisis! Is That Normal at My Age?

It can be very confusing to have a gender identity crisis as an adult. The truth is, it’s different for everyone and there is no magic age where you get answers. Gender stereotypes, societal pressures, and families of origin, among other things, all play a role in how we view gender.

Why Are Eating Disorders Competitive

Why Are Eating Disorders Competitive

Eating disorders can be very competitive. Hearing that another person has lost weight can fuel your desire to lose more than them. You may figure that as long as you are the weight you want, you are winning the game. It is possible you may have the personality of an overachiever or a perfectionist. If so, you never want to put in little effort.

How to Cope with Long Haul COVID Anxiety and Fear

How to Cope with Long Haul COVID Anxiety and Fear

When you’re struggling with long-haul COVID anxiety and fear, it’s understandable that you might get wrapped up in thoughts about how and when you’ll recover fully. You may wonder if a return to your old life and healthy state is possible. You don't have to navigate these fears alone. Your body and mind work in concert. While constant tension, unease, and worry can wear you down, there are steps you can take to ease your anxiety.

How to Cope with Long Haul COVID Depression and Brain Fog

How to Cope with Long Haul COVID Depression and Brain Fog

Take Heart that COVID-19 is new but depression and brain fog are not. It may help you to consider that, though Covid is novel, there is a well of knowledge that can be applied to your current challenges. Depression and brain fog were linked long before the pandemic.

Boulder's Mass Shooting & the Marshall Wildfire: Coping with PTSD

Boulder's Mass Shooting & the Marshall Wildfire: Coping with PTSD

Recovering from your PTSD is not a solitary journey. If you are tempted to compare your recovery (or will to recover) to that of your neighbors or other witnesses, don't. That just compounds your distress with guilt and shame. Your losses are real and there's a very real and productive way forward. PTSD treatment is made for times like these. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver...

How EMDR Helps Relieve Trauma Stored the Body

How EMDR Helps Relieve Trauma Stored the Body

Trauma can get stuck in your nervous system in a multisensory way. You hear, see, and feel things when you recall the event or become triggered in some way. Some of the memory is real mixed with things you imagine. Regardless, your body holds it all in your nervous system in an unfinished, unresolved state.

3 Tips Towards Body Neutrality vs Body Positivity

3 Tips Towards Body Neutrality vs Body Positivity

Body Neutrality vs body positive is subtle. Most people will never love how they look in the mirror. And that's OK. Learn to accept your "flaws." Embrace gratitude for the incredible way your body functions. This may sound scary because there is so much judgment and fuss in our society over how we look. But if judgment is what's holding you back, you will never live a life of freedom

So Your Child Came Out as Transgender...What Now?

So Your Child Came Out as Transgender...What Now?

Learning that your child is transgender or gender non-conforming can be difficult to process as a parent. You might worry for their future, about their health, or about discrimination they may face out in the world. You may feel unequipped to help them navigate the difficulties that lie ahead, especially if you can’t relate to what they’re feeling.

Do You Have Generational Trauma?

Do You Have Generational Trauma?

The concept of generational trauma is built upon the reality that trauma sets into motion certain genetic processes. If, for example, your grandparent endured trauma, it's quite possible that you will feel the impact. You may feel symptoms. You may inherit coping mechanisms. The possibilities appear to be endless. Therefore, the impacts are equally endless. How can we manage such a covert legacy?

Key Ways Racial Identity and Mental Health are Linked

Key Ways Racial Identity and Mental Health are Linked

If you are a person of color, you may be coping with racial realities in ways many minority communities have for ages; family, spiritual practice, activism and outreach often help. Yet, weathering waves of anxiety, mistreatment, and the daily effort of relational and systemic challenges requires specific and support you can trust.

Is Structural Racism the Problem of Older Generations? How Young POC are Affected

Is Structural Racism the Problem of Older Generations? How Young POC are Affected

Structural Racism Affects Young People of Color in particular, the malignancy of racism, woven into the fabric of the institutions and systems is harmful on a variety of levels. Over time, assumptions and stereotypes about racial groups have become embedded in our culture. This serves to legitimize racial inequality and throw up roadblocks for young people.

Diet Recovery: 4 Ways to Know You're On The Path

Diet Recovery: 4 Ways to Know You're On The Path

Diet recovery is not easy, but it is possible. It takes serious guts, for it can seem much safer to stay with what is familiar, rather than stepping into the unknown. Perhaps trusting your body to make the right choices feels impossible! How will you know? What if you can't stop eating dreaded foods, etc.?