Happy almost spring! The beautiful blooms and baby birds are bringing me much joy. How about you? And as spring draws near, we are all greeted with opportunities for collective change and growth - a time of growth and rebirth for us as a community and as individuals… however - change can increase feelings of anxiety and overwhelm. While we may be temped to push away our symptoms, I invite you to explore them with curiosity.

If you are an empath, or highly empathic, you feel things deeply and can pick up nuanced information in your environment. However, it’s important to note that not all the information picked up is a fact. Part of this gift is learning how to carefully craft your intuitive gifts and learn how to interpret information from your environment. This takes time and support and is often the work I do with my clients in session.t here.

As an "anxious empath", self care is a must. Here are 3 tips to improving self care. And learn about my #1 way to reduce sugar addition in this youtube clip!

I started using the phrase “anxious empaths” after my twelve years as a therapist. In that time, I began to notice patterns in my clients both physically and emotionally. There were stories of feeling exhausted, periods of depression, always feeling like they need to help someone, being the ‘counselor’ of their group of friends…

If you struggle with anxiety, and you are highly sensitive, you might be what I call an “anxious empath”. First let me define what I mean by this…

Are you choosing to do things in your life that are unnecessarily difficult? Do you sometimes feel like you stress and struggle in secret?…Ask yourself, "do I really want to be doing these things?

Be the light.
Outrage fatigue. It’s a thing. I have a feeling that many of you have experienced it during these trying political times… As a therapist, I have talked with countless people who are struggling with true anxiety, depression and stress related to our political (and social) realm.

Whether you decide what toppings to put on your (((newly non-GMO!))) Chipotle burrito bowl in 5 seconds flat, or you struggle and go back and forth between adding guac or no guac until you start getting dirty looks from the folks in line, we’ve all struggled with decision making once and awhile. And for some, it’s often.

Carl Jung so aptly wrote, “What you resist, persists.”

When we begin to understand personal patterns, and bring into our awareness that which does not serve us, we can begin to shift our lives.

The way in which we nourish our bodies is a reflection of the way we walk through the world. Busyness has become our modern day epidemic and this affects how we think and feel about food. These days, it’s the faster the better. The result of this perpetual busyness? We find ourselves suffering from increased levels of anxiety, depression and stress.