Meaning Making and Untangling Our Core Beliefs
Therapy Thoughts, Identity Exploration and Healing, Parenting and Attachment Impact, Mental Health Awareness, Self-Compassion and Inner Healing, Jennie Kogan LMSW Jennie Kogan, LMSW Therapy Thoughts, Identity Exploration and Healing, Parenting and Attachment Impact, Mental Health Awareness, Self-Compassion and Inner Healing, Jennie Kogan LMSW Jennie Kogan, LMSW

Meaning Making and Untangling Our Core Beliefs

We all need safety, connection, meaning, autonomy, peace and more. We do what we can to meet these needs. Before we have the cognitive ability to understand situations in nuanced ways, we interpret information in ways that are developmentally appropriate for children. Without interference, we may unconsciously carry the thoughts and behavior that we learned from childhood into adulthood in more sophisticated ways.

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Anxiety as an Ally
Therapy Thoughts, Anxiety Management and Coping Strategies, Mental Health Awareness, Self-Compassion and Inner Healing, Anxiety, Sara Eldridge LCSW Sara Eldridge, LCSW Therapy Thoughts, Anxiety Management and Coping Strategies, Mental Health Awareness, Self-Compassion and Inner Healing, Anxiety, Sara Eldridge LCSW Sara Eldridge, LCSW

Anxiety as an Ally

The holiday season often triggers anxiety around issues like spending time with family members who say or do hurtful things and maintaining healthy boundaries around eating or drinking. This year, many people have additional worries about contracting and/or spreading COVID-19 during their holiday celebrations, which may feel especially heightened after nearly two years of living in a pandemic. (Not to mention the other systemic concerns that we might also feel anxious about.)

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