We'd All Make Change
They say that the red flags you ignore in the beginning are the same red flags that cause you to leave in the end. I read that quote a long time ago and thought to myself how true it sounded. Little did I know that if I actually self-reflected on the words between the lines […]
On today’s episode of ‘I go to therapy, so you don’t have to’, I learned: that consistency is the key to progress. And that you must be willing to lead the house that you want to see. And by you, I mean me, because this week’s therapy was about parenting my children through leadership. To […]
On today’s episode of ‘I go to therapy, so you don’t have to’, I learned: a great reminder about Proverbs 22:6, which says “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it”. My therapeutic focus has been about healing childhood trauma but also […]
On today’s episode of ‘I go to therapy, so you don’t have to’, I learned: Physical age is based on your date of birth (obviously). Mental age is based on your intellectual development and measures cognitive ability. There is typically a correlation between physical and mental age. In the absence of cognitive disorders and generally […]
A restless Thursday evening led me on a quest to calm my inner storm in true Katie fashion. Patience may be considered a virtue but it is my least favorable quality. I needed to understand the principles of patience and how to apply them to my life. Einstein once said, “We cannot solve a problem […]
They say that love will find you when you’re least expecting and I think that saying is wrong. I think love will find you when you’re most prepared. Hear me out. I have been in relationships where they were born out of necessity; where we became a couple because society said that two people attempting […]
On today’s episode of “I go to therapy so you don’t have to”, I learned: Empathy is the conscious understanding of another person’s emotions or feelings. Highly empathetic people are naturally more sensitive to their environment. This means that we also have a greater sense of self awareness, which is the conscious knowledge of one’s […]
On today’s episode of “I go to therapy so you don’t have to” I learned: The inner child is subconscious pain and wounds stored by and carried with us throughout our childhood into adulthood. Inner child work allows us to access those wounds and gain self-awareness about the coping mechanisms we’ve used in adulthood to […]
On today’s episode of “I go to therapy, so you don’t have to” I learned: Perfectionists () use a toxic dichotomous way of thinking, which is a cognitive distortion. Yep, if I didn’t complete a task, IT failed, and *I* failed, so I’m a failure. See also: my most recent marriage. But our identity is […]
Did you know you can file for divorce online now? What used to take hours gathering documentation, making copies, and filing with the court is now just a few clicks away. The thought of having to take all the kids to the courthouse, in the absence of a babysitter, and standing in line for hours […]