by Mechele Evans | Sep 12, 2018 | Self-Care & Self Love
Barb’s Beliefs “I’m no good.” “If people really knew me they wouldn’t like me.” “There’s something wrong with me.” “I will never amount to anything.” “The only time I have worth is when I am doing something for someone else.” Negative thoughts like these feed...
by Mechele Evans | Sep 12, 2018 | Self-Care & Self Love
What Are Affirmations? Affirmations are positive things we say to feel better about ourselves, others, or situations. Affirmations can help with negative cognitions. What’s a Negative Cognition? What’s a negative cognition, you ask? Well, that’s all the crap...
by Mechele Evans | Sep 12, 2018 | Relationships & Couples Therapy
Unhappiness in a Relationship “I have experienced unhappiness in a relationship for almost a decade, and he never knew!” This is sad, but true. John Gottman has found in his practice that, on average, one partner spent 6 years of unhappiness in a relationship before...
by Mechele Evans | Sep 12, 2018 | Self-Care & Self Love
Case Study: Therapy Helped Overcome Low Self-Esteem Jasmine was adopted into a family that she stated treated her well and loved her like their own. She said that nothing bad had happened to her as a child. Her family always stood by her and treated her with patience...
by Mechele Evans | Sep 12, 2018 | Anger Management
Anger and The Perils of Leaving It Unspoken “I’m going to Blow up! I’ve held my feelings in so long that they are going to erupt like Mount Vesuvius.” Have you ever gotten angry at someone and chose not to tell them? To hold it in? Sometimes, that is clearly a wise...
by Mechele Evans | Sep 12, 2018 | Anger Management
Road Rage And Conscious Thought Shifts “Did you see how that jerk just cut me off?! This is my lane; why did he have to pull out right in front of me?!” Do your passengers grind their teeth when you drive? Do you get so angry behind the wheel that you want to do...
by Mechele Evans | Sep 12, 2018 | Self-Care & Self Love
Music is such a great thing. It can calm you, fire you up, make you cry, make you laugh, make you think of past times, or give more meaning to something that you’re currently going through. Think about your first crush in high school. Is there a song that makes you...
by Mechele Evans | Sep 12, 2018 | Anxiety
It Is Insidious, and It Never Goes Away. Stress, we all have it. Stress, like Type I Diabetes, is something that never goes away. There are things that we can do to manage it better and to have less of it, but we will always have some in our lives. There’s good...
by Mechele Evans | Sep 12, 2018 | Self-Care & Self Love
You know what the biggest thing that stands in the way of our happiness is? It’s usually us! There’s this concept of “self-fulfilling Prophesy.” Basically, what it means is we have the power to make something we’re doing succeed or fail. If we go into something with a...
by Mechele Evans | Sep 12, 2018 | Anxiety
Struggling With Calming Your Mind? You know those thoughts. They creep up on you, and attach to your brain like a fishing lure, just hanging out, oblivious to your pain, they could stay forever. You try to make them go away, but the fishing lure embeds itself even...
