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Honoring Your “Shadow Self” is to Accept Your Full Self

By Melissa Hale When was the last time you let yourself fall apart? I’m talking about the mascara-faced, snotty nosed, incoherent, sobbing situation. Or perhaps the rage-filled, angry, plate-throwing, swearing, monster? What about the devastated, depressed, can’t-get- out-of- bed-scared- as-shit person? While these may be extreme examples, what if there was something to be honored […]

Why an eating disorder therapist might be right for you even if you don’t have an eating disorder

By Lindsey Arens Most people don’t have a diagnosable eating disorder. Thank goodness. I don’t wish an eating disorder upon anyone. They have the highest mortality rates in the mental health world, and they are literally a form of self-torture. More people on this planet, however, struggle with the following: disordered eating traits or patterns, […]

The Mind-Body Connection: Healing Through Combined Talk Therapy & Yoga

By Alex Luber So you know that craze about the mind-body connection? That’s what I’m all about. I can treat the mind-body connection so that it makes a transformative impact in people’s lives. However, a persistent challenge of my career has been to accurately describe it. Identifying it is simple. I am a psychotherapist and […]

A Paradigm Shift on Mental Health

We are all human. And we all suffer emotionally. I dare you to challenge me on these two statements. Working in private practice as a mental health therapist, the overwhelming number of suffering humans who are seeking help struck me. It struck me because of the stigma our society maintains around mental health. My clients […]

Making Wellness Attainable: Talk Therapy in Milwaukee

Don’t let these myths about mental health therapy keep you from seeking help and feeling better. For some of us, our ideas about talk therapy are rooted in stereotypes. If we’ve considered meeting with a therapist, we often hesitate, falling back on a few common myths about therapy. We worry that our problems aren’t big […]