Tag: parenting
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Let’s Talk Kissing
Psychologist John Gottman reports that kissing your partner for 6 seconds is an effective way to decrease chronic stress living in your body. 6 seconds is too long to kiss someone you resent or dislike, and it’s too long to kiss someone with whom you feel unsafe. Kissing for 6 seconds requires that you stop…
Kaitlyn Sandher
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Let’s Talk Unprocessed Trauma in the Body
A short definition from the American Psychological describes trauma as an “emotional response to a terrible event.” Although we tend to focus alot on the mind following a traumatic event, trauma can also be stored in our bodies. Trauma becomes stored in our bodies when the stress hormone cortisol is released repeatedly at a higher-than-normal…
Kaitlyn Sandher
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Let’s Talk Therapy & Extended Health Benefits
Therapy should be accessible to everyone. Life is difficult and shit gets hard. Reaching out can be the most difficult part- It’s confusing, vulnerable, overwhelming and scary, and wondering how you are going to afford it can be a big enough barrier to avoid doing it all together. Unfortunately, understanding your benefits or potential funding…
Kaitlyn Sandher
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Let’s Talk Toxic Positivity
We’ve all scrolled through social media only to come across beautiful floral pictures with hashtags like good vibes only, look on the bright side, it could be worse, change your mindset, just be positive. The idea of these posts is usually to provide us with a quick burst of encouragement, positivity or motivation; however, there’s…
Kaitlyn Sandher
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Let’s Talk Anxiety in the Body
Did you know that when you experience the feeling of anxiety, you also experience physical symptoms? At the moment, these symptoms can feel terrifying! “Am I having a heart attack?”, “Why can’t I breathe? “Am I going to pass out?”. As uncomfortable as they are, these symptoms happen for good reasons – to prepare your…
Kaitlyn Sandher
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Let’s Talk Parentification
“That is not your job🤎”- a sentence I find myself repeating often in my therapy sessions Parentification can show up in any family, at any time, anywhere in the world. Parentification occurs when a caregiver relies on their child to support them indefinitely without sufficient reciprocity. Generally, there are two types of parentification1- Emotional Parentification-…
Kaitlyn Sandher
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