By Alexa Bailey, MSW, LMSW --- Have you have been thrown some serious shade and felt totally blindsided with what to do? We live in a world where people throw shade like its confetti, and it gets old real quick. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, throwing shade is the “subtle, ...
By Alexa Bailey, MSW, LMSW --- Perfectionism (noun): a belief that being perfect is possible and anything short of it is unacceptable; unrealistically high personal standards for self and overly critical self-evaluations; the need to be or appear to be perfect. See also: imposter syndrome, impossible expectations, and heartache. Welcome ...
By Alexa Bailey, MSW, LMSW --- When you think of the word peace, what do you think of? Do you think of not feeling any of the hard stuff? Or maybe just the absence of negative feeling? In life, there are a lot of difficulties that come. And one of ...
By Alexa Bailey, MSW, LMSW --- TRAUMA. It’s a big scary word that gets thrown around with little context to what it means. In the mainstream media, there are countless jokes making light of trauma responses in the way we jokingly describe events as “traumatizing” or when someone feeling minor ...
By Alexa Bailey, MSW, LMSW --- We all have a little voice in our heads that talks to us all day long. Sometimes it muses on what we’re doing, sometimes it’s daydreaming about the person we’re interested in, and, more often than not, it’s pointing out all the flaws and ...