Stephanie's Blog

Mindful photography encourages you to slow down, focus on the present, and experience calm while exploring creative expression.

Your gut instinct is a powerful guide. Learn how to trust your gut, recognize its signals, and strengthen your decision-making skills.

Are we bound by fate or free to choose our path? Exploring the balance between pre-destiny and choice in shaping our lives.

Discover the mental health benefits of skipping! Boost mood, reduce stress, improve focus, and find joy.

The moose is not majestic. It is distant and uninterested. So why do we keep calling emotional detachment a virtue?

Self-criticism, the inner troll, hinders growth. Manage it through mindfulness, rational self-talk, and self-compassion.

Shift your perspective with a Reverse Bucket List: honor past wins, spark new motivation, and recognize your growth.

Discover mindful doodling: a creative, stress-free practice to boost focus, sharpen senses, and nurture presence.

Boost energy and well-being this winter with kale and oats, but don't forget about Mac & Cheese.

Discover the power flexible thinking. How embracing multiple perspectives can reduce stress, and promote emotional growth.

Perspectives on ways to heal division in our culture, through embracing hope and curiosity.

Hindsight is a funny thing. In the moment, we can miss the subtleties of life’s twists and turns. When we look back, things become clearer.

Navigating political differences with respect, patience, and understanding can deepen your friendships and provide valuable life lessons.

Have you ever found yourself jumping from one bad story to the next on your phone or your computer? Or watching the news and it feeds you an anxiety provoking story and you channel surf to see who else is leading with that story and if there is more information you can glean from the tease of the first story? This common experience is called doomsurfing, or doomscrolling, a habit we get into which has us surfing or scrolling from news feed to news feed gathering info on some

As we have re-entered life after all the limitations of the last year and a half, many of us find ourselves feeling out of sorts. At a time we are regaining freedom, we thought we would be in a happier state getting back to the norm of what our lives looked like pre-Covid. For adults, this was getting the kids back in school and having time more delineated between the work/school week and the weekend, not having to negotiate our day work with teaching our kids, and for many

I don't know if anyone struggles with meditation like I do. For me, meditation is an exercise in stress induced anxiety. I just cannot sit quietly for any great length of time and not think. Yet, I do appreciate the mental health benefits of being able to access a quiet space in one's mind. Often, through the day, we are running from this place to that, either literally, or within the confines of our minds. Does it ever feel like you have a traffic jam going on inside your

I often tell clients when they come into the office that art was our first communication skill, as we learned to draw before we could talk. Many times, when a client is stuck in a loop, drawing can unlock some powerful connections that have long been locked because of how we create a verbal story to some of the places we feel challenged in. Whether that is relationships, work, finding personal passion or reaching goals, the story we get stuck in often builds upon itself. Be

Grounding means to connect to the earth and release built up energy that collects in the physical and mental bodies. Many of us have busy schedules where we are rushing from one thing to the next and spend very little time getting present in the moment. We are on our electronics, social media, television media... all of this has a tendency to leave us feeling ungrounded, out of sorts. Certain people in our lives, who are also ungrounded, can impact our own ability to feel

On June 17th, 2021, tennis superstar, Rafael Nadal tweeted that he will not play Wimbledon or in the Olympics as he is "listening to his body" in order to "prolong my career and continue to do what makes me happy". As a therapist, the supportive message this sends to those willing to hear is a departure of the typical message that tends to support working yourself into the ground. He's telling us that work is great, but sometimes we need to slow down and take inventory about

A year ago, we had a sense that adapting to at home learning and working would be short lived. As time has marched on, we have realized that working and learning at home might become the "new norm". In this acceptance, and for some embracing, of todays lifestyle, we have found that our homes are not always equipped to have multiple work spaces, school learning spaces, and a quality environment for productive meetings. We have had to get creative on where to take meetings to