by Martha White, LMHC-NCC | Sep 29, 2021 | Newsletter
When we experience feelings of anxiety, our autonomic nervous system is preparing to launch into “fight or flight” AKA sympathetic dominance. We are in hypervigilance; ready to react to incoming danger. When that feeling of anxiety is chronic, we are in a kind of...
by Martha White, LMHC-NCC | Aug 5, 2021 | Newsletter
We may be feeling our resistance these days; resistance to traffic, to school, to busyness, to social expectations. All of us feel resistance throughout our life, especially when change is “thrust upon us”. When we were children, resistances had to be...
by Martha White, LMHC-NCC | Jul 9, 2021 | Newsletter
“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm is all about.” Haruki Murakami Most of us are anxious about venturing out—not only because of the virus but also because we are out of practice interacting with our...
by Martha White, LMHC-NCC | Jun 18, 2021 | Newsletter
Humans develop through prolonged dependence upon their primary caregivers. The importance of those early relationships cannot be overstated: the ACE study proves it. The Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study, published in 1998 at a Kaiser facility in California,...
by Martha White, LMHC-NCC | May 5, 2021 | Newsletter
This is a liberation statement. If I create disappointments for myself, then I can stop, right? I can spend my time feeling grateful for the gifts in my life instead of resentful and bitter due to (unrealistic) expectations of others or myself. We learn to have...
by Martha White, LMHC-NCC | Apr 3, 2021 | Newsletter
Social expectations are ramping up as the restrictions begin to loosen. As we go back to work, go back to busy-ness, go back to thinking and planning for the future; we may feel deeply ambivalent about the end of the pandemic. Paradoxically, for some people this past...
