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Taking up space can be beneficial for your mental health:

1. Boosts Self-Confidence: When you allow yourself to take up space, you're affirming your right to exist and be noticed. This can enhance your self-esteem and self-worth.
2. Promotes Authenticity: Taking up space encourages you to be your true self without hiding or shrinking to fit in.
3. Reduces Stress and Anxiety: Feeling that you don't deserve to take up space can lead to stress and anxiety. Embracing your right to occupy space can reduce these negative feelings.
4. Enhances Social Interactions: When you confidently take up space, others are more likely to notice and respect you. This can lead to more positive and meaningful social interactions.
5. Empowers Self-Expression: Taking up space allows you to express your thoughts, opinions, and feelings more freely, leading to better communication and personal relationships.
6. Encourages Boundary Setting: It helps you set and maintain healthy boundaries, ensuring your needs and limits are respected by others.
7. Improves Physical Presence: Adopting open and expansive postures (literally taking up space) can positively affect your mood and make you feel more powerful and in control.

How does taking up space improve your well-being?

Designated Worry Time (DWT) is a cognitive-behavioral strategy used to manage and reduce anxiety by setting aside a specific time each day to focus on worries. Here are the five steps typically involved:

Where are our Swifties at? Incorporating Taylor’s songs into coping skills can be a powerful tool. Her music spans a range of emotions and experiences, making them relatable and therapeutic.

Which song/skill is your favorite?

We had a chance to sit down and chat with 413 Theraworks psychotherapist, Emily Siegel, LICSW about somatic therapy.

Somatic therapy is a therapeutic approach that focuses on the connection between the body and the mind. It aims to help individuals process and heal from psychological and emotional issues through bodily awareness and physical interventions. The underlying premise is that the body holds onto past traumas and stress, which can manifest as physical symptoms, tension, or chronic pain. By addressing these somatic experiences, therapists help clients release and resolve these stored traumas.

413 Theraworks talks Somatic Therapy Candace Morey Wall, LMHC and Emily Siegel, LICSW discuss an introduction to Somatic Therapy.

Repetitive patterns? Fear? Job dissatisfaction? Toxic relationship? We work with people who want to improve daily life by resolving the core conflicts keeping them stuck. Let’s talk.

Click the link in our bio to schedule your intake today.

One of the biggest challenges we hear in the therapy room is how connected to the phone clients are. Here are some low barrier to entry ways to begin decreasing use:

1. Go to settings and turn your display to Grayscale. Your brain won’t be as excited to keep looking at things that are just black and white.

2. Put your phone out of reach. When you’re beginning to disconnect, the urge to just grab your phone will still be there, but if it’s in the other room, you’ll have to get up to get it. This will begin to break the habit of reaching for it whenever you have a second of downtime.

3. Turn off any push notifications you don’t need. All your apps, email, etc. We’re conditioned (just like Pavlov and his dogs) to respond to those dings. Let’s begin to break the reinforcement patterns.

This month we say thank you and best of luck to first intern, Alex! Throughout her 9 months with us, Alex created and co-led a grief group for parents who have lost a child and provided reduced fee/pro-bono therapy to 18 clients. This equates to $24,000 of therapy donated to our community. We are so honored Alex chose us as her internship site and her incredible impact on our community in such a short period of time. 👏

Our brains are wired to keep us safe. So when something is outside our comfort zone or is new and feels risky or scary, our brains will alert us 🚨. But just because something is scary, or doesn’t mean it is dangerous.

Have you let your brain talk you out of new things before because they’ve felt scary or anxiety provoking (even if you knew they aren’t dangerous?) Like, maybe therapy? 😉

Hey, college students. 👋 Worried about what comes next? Adjusting back to being home this summer? Thinking about what comes after graduation next year? Or off to college at the end of the summer?

Future uncertainty can kick up different experiences for different people. We’re here to help in that process.

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We are excited to announce that Emily is now able to see clients in Massachusetts! She specializes in trauma and PTSD utilizing somatic interventions. Somatic therapy offers a holistic approach to trauma recovery by incorporating the mind-body connection to facilitate healing and address the physical manifestations of psychological distress.

Emily has immediate evening telehealth openings and takes Blue Cross and self-pay clients. Emily works with adults and families.

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Emotions can actually come and go fairly quickly if we don’t interfere with that process.

We have daytime Telehealth openings next week in:
➡️ MA
➡️ VT
➡️ NY
➡️ AZ

Our brain is so good at convincing us that everything that pops into our head is true—especially thoughts that may be jarring in some ways. But this is not the case. The average brain can think about 60,000 thoughts a day. Just random bits of information being processed like a computer.

If you ever find yourself stuck on a thought, ask yourself what the facts are to back it up?

Do you know someone who experiences poor sleep or insomnia? Us too. CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia) is an evidenced-based sleep training designed to improve your sleep (without medication) in 6 weeks. Candace is CBT-I certified. Contact our office to begin treatment today.

We often overextend ourselves at work because we’re people-pleasers, see our boss doing it, want to be noticed as going above and beyond. But at what cost?

Our brains are constantly using perception, learning and memory, the fear response, decision-making, and reflexes to respond to the environment around us. These are responses meant to keep us safe, not meant to keep us happy.

Intentional focus on internal factors (not pursuing material wealth or chasing external sources of happiness,) like cultivating positive relationships, practicing gratitutde, and engaging in meaningful activities can contribute to sustained happiness and well-being over time.

In the age of technology, it's not uncommon for many of us to unwind before bed by scrolling through our smartphones. Whether it's catching up on social media, reading articles, or watching videos, this nightly ritual has become almost second nature. However, what many may not realize is the profound impact that late-night phone use can have on our sleep and overall well-being.

Scrolling Before Sleep: The Impact of Late-Night Phone Use on Your Well-Being — 413 THERAWORKS In the age of technology, it's not uncommon for many of us to unwind before bed by scrolling through our smartphones. Whether it's catching up on social media, reading articles, or watching videos, this nightly ritual has become almost second nature. However, what many may not realize is the profoun

Hi, Perfectionist 👋 I see you. And I see how high you set the bar for yourself. Your 100% is everyone else’s 250%. No wonder you’re burned out, grumpy, and feeling like a failure. You setting “C” expectations for yourself, is everyone else’s “A.” What changes could you make today to set yourself up for a win? And what’s holding you back from making that change?

Are sleepless nights wreaking havoc on your life? Introducing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), a game-changing approach that tackles the root causes of sleeplessness. Unlike sleep medications, CBT-I targets unhealthy thoughts and behaviors, providing natural, long-lasting results. Say goodbye to dependency and hello to restful nights! Check out our latest blog post to learn more about CBT-I and why it's a superior long-term solution to sleep medication. 💤💪

Read more: 413theraworks.com/blog-2/2024/1/19/cognitive-behavioral-therapy-for-insomnia-cbt-i-the-long-term-solution-to-sleepless-nights

We have a free virtual group beginning next week for grandparents who have experienced grandchild loss. Please contact our office for more information.

Alex, our grad intern, has immediate, reduced fee sessions available.

One of the biggest barriers to attending therapy is cost. Even utilizing insurance for therapy can be expensive depending on your plan. Utilize our reduced fee opportunity to meet your needs in 2024. Contact us to schedule your intake with Alex today.

What is inner child work?

Rediscovering Healing: Understanding Inner Child Therapy Work — 413 THERAWORKS In the world of psychotherapy and self-improvement, there exists a profound and transformative approach known as Inner Child Therapy Work. This therapeutic practice delves into the depths of our emotional history, helping us to connect with and heal our inner child—the younger, vulnerable version ...

How does anxiety hold you back in your life? Your relationships? Your career? Let’s talk about it.

Main takeaways from our Merry Boundaries free workshop yesterday. Have more to add? Comment below! ⬇️

Today we got to attend a pottery retreat at Jackie Sedlock Pottery. Such a great day playing with clay, being present, and creating.

Therapeutic services extend beyond the therapy room and exploring additional healing tools is important in determining what may be helpful in your journey. ❤️

Happy to report we are now in-network with Harvard Pilgrim and have in-person and online openings available!