You have been judged enough for your problems by your family, friends, society and by yourself. You have been given unsolicited advice too many times before. You felt lost and confused for a while now. Things haven’t been going your way and you need to reevaluate your life decisions.   A therapist is not someone […]

How much do you value your mental and emotional health? If your mental or emotional state is not healthy, why do you continue to suffer or are you in denial? There are tools you can use to help you with your anxiety, stress, loneliness, anger, fear, low self-esteem, negativity, lack of motivation, lack of direction […]

  There are times when we feel like we are losing control of our lives and our negative thoughts have taken over. We worry about the past and we worry about the future but what we really need to truly focus on is what’s in front of us. Our thoughts are very powerful. “Thoughts become […]

  Self esteem is knowing your worth. We were born with a high self-esteem but every moment of our lives can affect that. Self esteem will stay afloat and high when our surroundings keep us feeling valued, loved, secured and supported. Every time our care takers neglect us, shame us or hurt us, our self-esteem […]

In a dog-eat-dog world that we live in, it is a bit hard to trust other people. There is always that question of, “what’s in it for me?” Let us take a step back and consider this question instead, “how can I help that person?” This simple question that you can ask yourself will help […]

  There are plenty of people who hates the word vulnerable. They find this word as a sign of weakness. I understand that being vulnerable is a state where we find ourselves needing help from others. It’s opening ourselves up to judgment and also disappointments. People tend to judge others so easily because they lack […]

What is compassion fatigue? It develops when one person cares too much for another individual. Compassion fatigue is the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual depletion associated with caring for patients. In other words, it’s burnout. Compassion fatigue is the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual depletion associated with caring for patient. Usually people in the helping field, such […]

I recently had to say adios to one of my favorite clients. This client had to move to a different country for work. I saw this client went through the ups and downs of life in the months that we worked together. This experience I had with this client, of seeing this person during his […]

What will you consider your best year ever? For me it’ll be a year when I feel the most fulfilled. It’s hard to live a fulfilling life if you just wing it. We actually have to have a plan. To have a plan, you need goals. But a goal without a plan is a wish. 2016 […]

We live in a world that glorifies being busy. Busyness nowadays became a status symbol. When a person is busy there is the assumption that they are important and successful. Our society glorifies physical and emotional self-neglect because it is heroic to sacrifice yourself for others. Self-neglect usually means that we are working hard for […]