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Spill The Tea in Therapy: Rae & Borderline Personality Disorder

in Spill The Tea October 7, 2019 29 0 0

Welcome to the Spill The Tea in Therapy Series I have some HOT TEA to share today: it’s the first day of our new stigma-busting guest post series! On select #MentalHealthMondays there will be a new post written by a reader about their...

What’s In My Therapy Library- Sexuality and Relationship Education

in Recommendations September 4, 2019 31 0 1

Esther Perel says that to improve sex education in the US, we need to expand our definition of what it is. She asserts that we should be looking at it as “Sexuality and Relationship Education” which I believe in wholeheartedly. And...

What’s In My Therapy Library: General Self-Help Book Edition

in Recommendations August 15, 2019 32 0 1

A thorough knowledge of psychology does not a good self-help book make. What? Are you surprised to hear that from the therapist who still brags about her college GPA four years postgrad? Well, lucky for you guys, my love for high-quality...

What is Narrative Therapy?

in Psychoeducation June 25, 2019 25 0 1

On my homepage, you may have noticed how I said I dabble in Narrative Therapy. What the heck is that?! How do you know if it would be helpful for you as a client in therapy? If you’re studying to become a therapist, how do you know if...

Creative Ways to Show Love Based on Your Love Language

in Psychoeducation June 21, 2019 71 4 1

Are you and your partner arguing so much that it feels like you’re not even speaking the same language? Well, what if I told you that might actually be the problem? In my work with couples, this actually comes up a lot. Not speaking the...

Quotes to Spark Nostalgia

in Psychoeducation June 17, 2019 346 2 1

A little while ago, I came across a Bustle article about the ways nostalgia changes your brain. “Changes” was kind of clickbaity– a better word would just be “effects.” But the content of the article was still really...

What is Systems Theory?

in Psychoeducation June 14, 2019 29 0 1

I gotta tell ya, writing about theory makes my brain go fuzzy. It must be a side effect of grad school. I am so appreciative of the researchers that tease out behavior and collect it into neat little packages like systems theory, but I hate...

What’s In My Therapy Library: Adulting Edition

in Recommendations June 14, 2019 39 0 1

Some of you may know this already, but I used to run a lifestyle blog called Uninspired. My goal was to help twenty-something women navigate the complicated world of young adulthood– otherwise known as “adulting”. It’s a...

What’s In My Therapy Library: Fiction Edition

in Recommendations May 22, 2019 36 0 1

Since I became something of an academic, I’ve taken to writing notes on every piece of literature I come across. It began, of course, with academic articles, but then I realized that what helped me digest academic articles would of course...

What’s In My Therapy Library: Adults Only Self-Help Books Edition

in Recommendations May 19, 2019 71 4 1

Warning! These self-help books books are full of curse words and other mature content. Might be NSFW or to read around children. That said, I think potty-mouthed self-help books are super fun. Self-help can sometimes be gimmicky, and it can...

What’s In My Therapy Library: Memoir Edition

in Recommendations May 10, 2019 44 0 2

Memoir is such a cool genre because each one brings so much depth to our understanding of the human experience. Of course, we can only know what we have been through ourselves, and that’s a very limited point of view. Memoir, while it...

What’s In My Therapy Library: Kids Books Edition

in Recommendations May 7, 2019 58 0 2

As you guys are well aware of by now, I’m an avid believer that stories can heal. Today, I want to make sure that statement applies to literally everyone by offering a list of therapy books for an unexpected population- kids! There are lots...