How to Make the Most of Therapy In Between Sessions
The therapy hour is wonderful. We can dive deep, reflect and have new emotional experiences, all with the support and guidance of our therapist. But this is only one hour, and we want to make sure that we are benefitting during the rest of the week too! So, how do [read more]
Negativity Bias
It's easier to remember the bad stuff Why is it that when someone gives you a critique, it seems stained in your memory for all of time, but when someone gives you a compliment, you may hardly think anything of it? Why do we effortlessly think of all the things [read more]
5 Ways That Emotions are Wisdom, Not Weakness
If you have ever found yourself thinking that feeling a certain way was the equivalent to being weak, dependent, desperate, frail, or broken, here are a list of 5 reframes (not an exhaustive list, by any means!) to understand your emotions in a totally different light. They Give Us Information Emotions are laden with incredibly useful information. Emotions tell [read more]
Calming Down Before We Communicate
We could all do better when it comes to expressing ourselves. Even if we study communication techniques, read books on communicating, go to seminars, and consider ourselves empathetic and emotionally intelligent, there is always room for improvement when translating what we are feeling and thinking into words more effectively. One [read more]
5 Tips for Reducing Anxiety
Just a warning - these need to be practiced in order to be effective For these strategies to work, you must give yourself fully to trying them. Regulating our emotions is a practice just like any other skill, and it can be developed and improved with deliberate practice. What even [read more]
Learned Helplessness and Depression
There was a series of terribly unethical animal experiments that occurred in the 1960’s. While they are horrifying to read about, they really give wonderful insight into the behavioral phenomenon of “learned helplessness,” which has implications in the development of Depression. You can read a summary of those studies, written [read more]
Nina Tomkiewicz, LCSW (#94268)