Balance

Ask the Therapist

Question: “I have heard of the importance of letting my feelings be there but wonder at what point am I giving feelings such as depression and anxiety too much attention. I am afraid I will get stuck in negativity.” Dear Reader,  This is actually a pretty common exploration that happens in therapy. The theories I …

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Question: I am a woman in my 30s recently diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. I experienced some challenges in college and my personal and professional life, because “I wasn’t like other women.” I don’t think of myself as the “typical person that has autism spectrum disorder and feel normal.” My therapist encouraged me to …

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Attuning with the Seasons: Spring and the Wood Element

Ancient medicine, with its timeless attunement with nature, provides a complete complement to modern medicine’s approach that has developed immediate, branches-to-roots, symptom-oriented, and scientifically advanced medical solutions. Certainly, many of these modern solutions are undeniably important and necessary in particular circumstances, especially those of urgency and emergency. However, in order to balance this approach, we …

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The Baby Way

When someone asks me what I do for a living now, I get to give the best response ever, the one I always dreamed of: I get to tell people that I get paid to have fun, to follow my bliss, that my job is to play. Finding and feeling joy is what Living Lumin …

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Self-Harm Behavior in Adolescents: My teen cuts on her wrists. Now what?

Question: My 14-year-old daughter always wants to wear long sleeve shirts and cover her wrists. The other day, I saw scars on her wrists and inner thighs. She talks about how other girls in school cut themselves when they are upset, and I think she is cutting too but doesn’t want us to find out. …

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