Thoughts from a Therapist

Helpful tips on How to Expand your Personal and Relational Wellness

Tag: Courage

  • Strength Is Contextual

    Strength Is Contextual

    Strength is not a singular trait but a contextual movement toward personal balance. It emerges differently for hyper-empowered individuals, who may need restraint, and hypo-empowered ones, who may need assertion. True resilience demands disrupting entrenched patterns, fostering authentic growth instead of adhering to culturally ingrained distortions like toxic masculinity or chronic caretaking.

  • The Building Blocks of Emotional and Social Intelligence

    The Building Blocks of Emotional and Social Intelligence

    The blog explores emotional and social intelligence, emphasizing their role in enhancing mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness. It highlights essential capacities like empathy, self-awareness, and compassion, which contribute to navigating life’s complexities. These skills are not fixed but can be developed, fostering connection, clarity, and presence in everyday experiences and psychotherapy.

  • Courage to use your Strength to attend to your Fear

    Quick summary: I am offering a discussion on the difference between Strength and Courage. My hope is that by helping people to see what courage is… they may be more likely to use that courage to express the potential of their authentic self. Courage is willingly engaging yourself in something that you view as very…