As many of you know, last year I started EMDR therapy to treat my PTSD. When my therapist introduced me to EMDR, I was very skeptical. Despite years of therapy and trying everything, I had never heard of it.…
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I was sixteen the first time I went to a psychiatrist. I don’t honestly remember the appointment all that well, but I do remember sitting in the waiting room, getting nervous and thinking I was out of place. I…
I am not chill. It's hard for me to learn how to relax. If you get anxious at the thought of doing nothing, read on to learn how I spent my birthday this year. …
Learning to cope with PTSD is hard. But you are not alone. Follow one woman's journey to healing through self-discovery, self-care, and (most importantly) self-love.…
I have my first therapy appointment tomorrow. It’s not my first ever appointment, but it’s the first after six years or so without any therapy or counseling. It seems fitting to talk about my first therapy appointment on my first Clo…
Social media is fake, but that's hard to remember sometimes. It's easy to think that a photo from our past represented a better time in our life even if that's not true.…
Life changes sometimes overwhelm me, and lately life changes are more common than things staying the same. In truth, I don’t handle anxiety and overwhelm all that well and I can be kind of prone to it. Usually I…
Depression is a funny thing. It sneaks up on you when you least expect it. Somedays, you forget you ever had it. You forget it was there, and that it still pays rent somewhere deep in your brain. Depression…
There are lots of ways to treat anxiety, depression and insomnia. Float therapy is a new therapy that has different benefits for all types of ailments.…
Accessing your wise mind is a dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) practice to help ease anxiety and access our true feelings, wants, and fears. Accessing those feelings is essential to personal growth and learning how to manage those unwanted emotions.…
Deep down, I believe I am a bad person and I never realized that that isn't normal. I started asking around to see if other people felt the same, and I was surprised to see the responses. Self-perception is…