by shana | Dec 30, 2016 | addiction, Body image, counseling, holidays, Psychotherapy
I don’t know what happened to me over the holidays! Holidays are notorious for family and food. And New Year’s resolutions often include getting into shape or cleansing. The movie trailer from Embrace reminds how the intense pressure about looking a...
by shana | Oct 28, 2016 | Communication Skills, counseling, couple therapy, couples therapy, lying, Relationship Counseling
Pretty white lies Sometime lying might do you some good. Lying about the big stuff in a couple could prove fatal, but the little ones? We tell more white lies than you may think. Bella DePaulo, Ph.D., a psychologist at the University of Virginia found that most...
by shana | Oct 14, 2016 | Breaking up, counseling, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Relationship Counseling, Stressful Marriage
What to do after marrying the wrong person? “Why you will marry the wrong person” was published in the New York times by Alan de Botton, and he gives us a quirky and intelligent answer. “We need to swap the Romantic view for a tragic (and at points...
by shana | Jun 17, 2016 | Anxiety, counseling, couples therapy, Depression, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
I just watched an interview about Marianne Willamson’s newest book, Tears to Triumph; the video here is shorter but gets right to point! Burying the sad leads to more sad later. We spend a lot of time avoiding bad feelings, but it won’t necessarily make...
by shana | Feb 12, 2016 | Communication Skills, counseling, couples therapy
We learn how to mirror at a very young age as shown here. As we get older it gets complicated, but all the basics are the same. As grown ups we might call it empathy, or recapping, listening, or curiosity, but basic verbal and non-verbal mirroring of another will...
by shana | Jan 1, 2016 | counseling, couples therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, How to Stop Fighting, Relationship Counseling
But it’s still good. There are several gems of good relationship indicators in this video. https://shanareegann.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Bob-Kim-Hallmark-PutYourHeartToPaper.mp4 I particularly love the line, “I look at him and see myself”....