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I Do Not Know How I Feel About This. . .

My family is a bit dysfunctional. I guess in today’s world it is hard to find a family without some dysfunction. Our dysfunction comes in the forms of divorce, codependency, drug abuse, and a myriad of other problems. I am lucky to be, for lack of a better term, “collateral damage”. In other words, I am effected by the dysfunction by merely having familial relationships with the individuals who…

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The Preemptive Bubble Burst

Check out the latest blog post about not bursting the happiness bubble.

Wow, it has been way too long since I have posted! Sorry about that. I will try to be more frequent with my posts going forward.

Anyway. . .

I posted a while ago about allowing ourselves to be happy and, in another post, about the ebb and flow of life. This is along the same lines with a little bit of a different flavor.

For those who do or have struggled with mental health the possiblitly of…

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1. #Katifaq Hi Kati, I was just wondering if you had any advice/tips on what to do when you get stuck at the “I don’t know” part of therapy. My therapist says I need to push myself to bring up stuff to talk about but, I always just end up saying I don’t know and we have these awkward moments of silence. I even think of stuff to talk about before my next session before I go to sleep, but I almost always never bring it up. I trust my therapist a lot and feel like I can tell her anything, but when it gets to the really hard stuff my mind just freaks out in session and I don’t know what’s relevant/how to bring things up. Do you have any tips on how to push yourself to be more open? Thanks so much for all you do! I love the idea for keeping in touch with the community during the holidays!!

2. Hey Kati! I’m a new subscriber and I’ve never asked a question so hopefully you see this :) How can you get past the fear of being judged when going to therapy? I feel like I hold back a lot of information because I’m scared that she will judge me? Thanks!

3. Hey Kati!

Just wondering if it’s weird to want to have a serious life threatening illness like cancer or something?

I just sometimes I wish I did, don’t really know why but just wondered if you can answer to maybe why I have these thoughts and if you know whether it is normal or not?

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Kati,

My therapist gave me an assignment last week that I am super excited about, and I think everyone could benefit from doing it too. She asked me to choose one word to focus on for the year of 2015 rather than making resolutions. She gave me the example of the words Balance or Presence. I think is is genius! Having a “theme word” for the year is specific enough to drive you while being broad enough to give you freedom. So, my word for 2015 is Progress. What will yours be?

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Words change with age

I recently started a job that has caused many others to become burned out, and I don’t want that to happen to me. So, I have been making sure that I make time for my own self-care. I was given a self-care assessment worksheet from the American Counseling Association.

One area I saw I needed to improve on was “say “no” to extra responsibilities sometimes”. So, for the next two weeks I made a…

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Sister Fun

I had so much fun at this session! Sisters have such a fun relationship; they love each other, and they love to bug each other. It’s fun to be a part of.

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Mama said Idle Hands . . .

“Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop”

“Idle hands are the Devil’s playthings”

Have you heard these sayings or a variation of them before? I know I have. There are two ways to look at this, from the religious paradigm and from a more secular paradigm.

Religious Paradigm

Idleness is defined in the Guide to the Scriptures as “inactive and uninvolved in righteous works.” There are numerous…

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Prom 2014

My little brother is growing up!

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1. I’m going through a very stressful situation at the moment. It seems like my diet is junk food, like my body craves it. I try to eat healthy, but it disagrees with me. Help!!

2. So glad to have you back! Because of you I am seeing a psychologist. After I visit him I usually feel so good. I kind of feel like I have had a release of pent up emotions. But then over the next few days I get very weepy and depressed. But then I get better again. How does one not keep from feeling sorry for themselves? Or is it ok too feel bad for yourself for a few days?

2.1 Kati you’re so pretty and cheery, glad you are back. My struggle is I tend to go into the therapy appointment eeach week feeling good but then the stuff brought up in session brings me down. It can sometimes take a day to feel better again, mini depression. I like going and will cont to go but ugh

3. I know with all the other stories out there, you may not even reply to this, however I had to try something to help save my sister. My sister has recently relapsed into her Ed. The first time, her Ed had gotten so bad she had a heart attack and seizures. I never want to see her like that again in my life, as you must imagine. She did go to rehab and family counseling has also been a part of the process, however I don’t think she fully quit even after all the therapists and programs. I recently became aware that the problem was still active when she had another heart attack. I never saw this coming, her potassium levels were zero so she has been doing it for a while since rehab. I don’t believe she realizes she has a problem either. I watched her closely when I came home from college on breaks and she seemed like she was doing better with all the weight gain and all, I never suspected that she had been purging. I still don’t know how she purges and is still large. She also abuses laxatives daily. To my knowledge she never stopped taking them from the first time around. How can I save her? What should and can I do? How do I get her to realize she has a problem? How do I get her to understand she cannot be a functioning bulimic? I desperately want to break her addiction to this awful sickness that drenches her. Please help

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