Emerging from the Pandemic
A message of wellness from eTalkTherapy In 2017, we gave you our word. To provide you with professional, compassionate, and affordable therapy, and to see you as a person, not as a diagnosis. To meet...
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The Importance of making eye contact
The Eyes Have It Shortly before the Covid lockdowns, a neighbor of mine published her first novel. She held a book reading and signing in an art gallery downtown, complete with a wine and cheese...
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Mental Health Awareness in the Wake of Covid
Promoting Change and Self-Care May is National Mental Health Awareness Month, and this is a year in which it seems more vital than ever to look at our lives and to check in with ourselves to see how...
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https://etalktherapy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Tell-me-more-Ep-1-Pandemic-.mp3 Listen to Episode 1 of our new podcast – Tell Me More For more than a year, Americans and people from all over the...
View ArticleHow to Find the Right Therapist for Mental Health Treatment
https://etalktherapy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Tell-me-more-Ep-2-Stop-the-Stigma.mp3 Listen to episode 2 of the podcast – Tell Me More – transcript: (Music fades in) Nearly one in five US adults...
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Four Ways to Improve Your Mood and Find a New Perspective
Navigating Your Life in a Post-Pandemic World I have no idea if you’re a Millennial, Gen-Z, or a Boomer, but I fall somewhere in what is known as the “Xennial” generation – the tail end of Gen X and...
View ArticleWhat to Expect in Therapy
https://etalktherapy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Tell-me-more-Ep-3-Taking-the-Mystery-out-of-Therapy.mp3 Listen Tell Me More: Episode 3 (Music fades in) If you’ve ever struggled with depression,...
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Effects of a Prolonged Pandemic on Mental Health
We’ve Never Not Known Together “It’s like… I think everything’s going to be okay, but I have no idea what’s going to happen next. And like, none of you know either. Like… we’ve all never not known...
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How Therapy Can Change Your Life
Not What I Expected I don’t know what I expected, but here they are: the house painters we’d booked weeks ago, large men with friendly faces and a radio that plays the Classic Rock station while they...
View ArticleCoping with Covid Fatigue
Tell Me More: Episode 4 https://etalktherapy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Tell-me-more-Ep-4-Pandemic-Fatigue.mp3 (Music fades in) If you’re feeling exhausted from year two of the global pandemic yet...
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Finding Normal Part I
Pandemics, Wars, and Giant Spiders “Would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?” “…And you won’t be angry?” “I will NOT be angry.” “Abby…someone.” “Abby someone? Abby who?” “Abby normal.”...
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Finding Normal Part II
Life on the Other Side of Suffering The military has a slang phrase that I’ve always liked: “Embrace the suck.” Embrace that which is terrible – accept it, get through it, and become changed by it...
View ArticleMoving Forward and Managing Our Fears
Tell Me More Podcast: Episode 6 https://etalktherapy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Tell-me-more-Ep-6-Moving-Forward-Managing-Our-Fears-R.mp3 (Music fades in) We thought we had seen (and somehow lived)...
View ArticleHow to Handle Anxiety and Stress with My Kids
To say that the past few years have been a collective strain on most of us is an understatement. Wedged somewhere between a global pandemic, political and economic chaos, polarization in our homes and...
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Back to Reality OR How to Love Someone With Anxiety
I don’t know about your household, but ours gets reallll grumpy the first two weeks or so of the school year. My son and I take a little more time to adjust to the new routine, so we’re cranky about...
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A Beautiful Example of Love and Friendship
Lesson Learned At the Bowling Alley This past summer, I took my kids bowling for the first time in what felt like a million years. The lanes weren’t crowded, and it was a great place to head to beat...
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Gathered Around the Table
Well, here we are: the first “back to normal” Thanksgiving holiday since 2019; and like many Thanksgivings before it, it’s a time that can be fraught with heated political discussions, arguments,...
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Life Lessons and the End of 2022
My daughter recently began violin lessons for the first time. We went to have her measured for the instrument, and I watched her as it was carefully packed up. She was so proud of it, sitting next to...
View Article“You Will Be Visited by Three Spirits”
by Don Laird, NCC, LPC Scrooge. It’s a name synonymous with a cold and heartless man concerned more with greed and gain than mercy; a cultural archetype who wants nothing further to do with humanity...
View ArticleHow Will Your Light Shine
The winter sun casts its long shadows. The darkness gathers quickly, and the cold wind blows. Yet, within each of us there kindles a small flame, a hopeful twinkle to answer the call of the long...
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