Wisdom Within Counseling and Coaching
Helping Kids, Teens, & Couples Build Positive, Meaningful Relationships
Often times, empty nest syndrome is what a mature adult experiences after they have accomplished parenting their children. With empty nest syndrome, an adult may feel a loss and a sense of grief. It might feel like you don’t know what to do with your time now that your young adult children have moved out of your home. Some empty-nesters
Any relationship can start off passionate, filled with desire, and romantic. However, after stresses of parenting, trauma, loss, and stress around work, any relationship will suffer. In early months, what was making your heart happy was good sex. Now, you wonder how your relationship has become sexless. Some couples are perfectly happy without sex in their marriage. However, some couples
Remember, couples therapy in Connecticut is a safe place to overcome conflict, talk about resentment, step into connection after loneliness, and build true emotional intimacy. Many times, couples know how to run a household and pay bills together, but live separate and lonely lives. Therapy with your spouse can help you cultivate through emotional intimacy and experience sexual pleasure from
What are signs of PTSD and a need to seek out PTSD therapy in couples therapy in Connecticut? In general, symptoms of PTSD and trauma include, lack of emotional regulation, flooding, getting emotionally triggered, tearfulness, anxiety, panic attacks, negative flashbacks, and trouble sleeping. Also, disassociation is a part of trauma. As well, these trauma symptoms and emotions are often connected
How does Gottman marriage counseling for fighting couples begin? In Gottman marriage counseling, your therapist will do an oral history review. Also, this helps your therapist understand how you and your spouse understand the story of your relationship. Sometimes, there is a past affair bringing a couples to work on repairing their marriage. Or, a spouse’s parent is suddenly sick
Now, one may say there’s something wrong with the way we’re raising our kids. And, it may just be the place where we’re doing it. Today’s children spend half as much time outside as their parents did. As well, being inside all day can have serious repercussions on health and development. Essentially, electric light disrupts the body’s natural circadian rhythms.
What is a trauma bond and how do I heal from it? Oftentimes, forms of abuse can manifest in our lives in different ways, including in our relationships with others. Abuse may be present without our conscious awareness of it, resulting in unnecessary emotional suffering and self-neglect. Our bodies can respond to the abuse we endured in many different emotional
First, being an entrepreneur means you are doing a lot. You may have built your own business. And, you might feel overwhelming anxiety or stress. Now, there was once a time when being an entrepreneur meant running a business from a brick-and-mortar location. At that time, an entrepreneur would have a plethora of staff at your beck and call. But,
Sensory processing disorder can mean that you or your child are more sensitive to noises, lights, and textures. Also, a person with sensory processing disorder may bump into things or be clumsy. Many times, children and teens with sensory processing disorder may be more sensitive emotionally. They cry and become tearful more easily. For some children, sensory processing disorder can
First, every morning your alarm goes off, may you hit the snooze button. And, you may be hoping time will stop so you can get a few more minutes of sleep. But, then your alarm goes off again. Next, you jump out of bed, anxious, and get ready for work. And, then you head out the door, rushing around all