Elizabeth Deeths, Marriage and Family Therapist

Read it a few times and let it sink in

Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful Here’s how to pull yourself out of despair and live your life

A few reminders during this difficult time.

Column: Our kids will always remember living through a coronavirus pandemic. We don’t have to make it normal for them. If summoning the will to adhere to a typical routine makes you want to weep from emotional exhaustion, go ahead and weep. Even if you’re a parent.

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Grief never ends

The Unexpected Grief Experience Called a STUG A grief therapist explains what to do after a STUG experience, an unwelcome, unexpected tsunami to the natural tidal rhythms of grief

Yes!

This can be difficult to remember at times

Honoring your boundaries, even when others disagree with them, is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.

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This explains the therapy process well.

This explains therapy so well.

Children Won’t Say They Have Anxiety, They Say ‘My Stomach Hurts!’ As children grow and develop, they experience a number of emotional reactions that they know are different or even negative feelings, but they haven't the…

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The Letter Your Teenager Can't Write You Dear Parent: This is the letter that I wish I could write. This fight we are in right now. I need it. I need this fight. I can’t tell you this because I don’t have the language for it and it wouldn’t make sense anyway. But I need this fight. Badly. I need to hate you right now and I need you t...

This is an excellent analogy

Woman Shares The “Ball In The Box” Analogy Her Doctor Taught Her To Help Deal With Grief Grief sucks. Losing a loved one is one of the most difficult experiences you'll have to endure in your life, there is simply no avoiding the heartache and intense feelings of emptiness. However, by learning to understand grief, you can eventually help yourself come to terms with it and allow your li...

Parents: let your kids fail. You’ll be doing them a favor A whole new way to think about parenting.

Evan Rachel Wood gets candid about checking into a psychiatric facility at 22: 'I have absolutely no shame about it' The "Westworld" star gets candid about how a failed su***de attempt changed her life.

Because if they're crying it's probably because they need to cry.

This workout only takes 7 minutes and helps with self-regulation,
used as a brain break,
or indoor recess movement activity!

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Freedom 🙋🏻‍♀️☕️

Some important reminders.

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Be kind to yourselves this holiday season.

It is all about balance

Great advice

This a a great grounding technique.

We need to start talking more openly with our kids about mental illness, and just plain emotions.

The Silent Tragedy Affecting Today’s Children "How much more evidence do we need before we wake up?"

Get get over it, get through it

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Woman Breaks Down Why People With Mental Illnesses Say “I’m Tired” Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. is living with some form of mental illness. For these people, just getting out of bed can be the hardest thing to do. Then comes the basic tasks like brushing your teeth and changing your clothes to look presentable to the outside world…all the while, you ar...

Some great tips for treatment in this article.

Is Internet Gaming Disorder Really a Disorder of Addiction? - Marina Edelman, Marriage and Family Therapist As an alternative view to Internet Gaming Addiction (IGD), Simulation Entrapment, coined by Dr. Todd Essig, provides a different perspective on gaming addiction as well as a different approach to therapy with simulation entrapped individuals.