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 Elizabeth Fedrick, PhD, LPC --- “To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” – Tony Robbins Our relationships with others are one of the most significant and ...
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 Elizabeth Fedrick, PhD, LPC --- “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself” – Coco Chanel We are constantly exposed to the societal standards of “beauty.” We are bombarded by messages from television, magazines, and social media telling us exactly how we should dress, how our hair, makeup, ...
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 ...
