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10/21/2025

As we approach the holiday season, it’s common to feel a mix of anticipation and dread. Busier schedules, family dynamics, and financial pressures can all build quickly.

Taking time now to prepare emotionally can make a difference later. A few ways to begin might be:

- Setting clear boundaries with family or friends about what you can and can’t do.
- Scheduling time for rest, even in the middle of busy days.
- Naming financial limits before the season starts, so spending feels intentional.
- Choosing a few traditions that actually nourish you, and letting go of the ones that don’t.

If you know the season tends to bring up stress, talking with your therapist now can help you name what feels most difficult and create a plan to support your well-being.

10/17/2025

When you’re caught in cycles of worry or self-criticism, it’s easy to feel like the answer is hidden in the “right thought.” If you could just think your way through it, maybe you’d feel better.

But our nervous systems don’t work that way. The mind and body are intertwined, and often the shift comes not from more thinking, but from gentle movement. Stretching, sighing, pressing your feet into the ground-these acts reorient your whole system toward calm.

This checklist is here to remind you that relief doesn’t have to be complicated. Sometimes it’s as simple as moving your body and letting that movement do what thinking can’t.

10/13/2025

We’re often told to notice when we use the word “should” because it can point to self-criticism or impossible expectations.

But “shoulds” don’t always show up so directly. They can hide inside everyday thoughts, quietly shaping the way we act or what we expect of ourselves.

When we uncover those hidden rules, we create the chance to meet ourselves with compassion and to choose a response that feels truer to who we are.

10/03/2025

Many of us mistake emotional release for weakness. Somewhere along the way, we learned that strength meant staying unaffected.

In truth, moving through emotion is what frees us. Therapy can be the space where you learn to let that process unfold safely, at your own pace.

09/26/2025

Rainer Maria Rilke often wrote about the human need to expand into the truth of ourselves. His image of unfolding captures what it means to move from constraint into authenticity.

Many people come to therapy carrying years of practice in keeping themselves contained. They may have learned to silence anger, to withhold needs, or to keep grief carefully hidden. Those folds were ways of staying connected to others and of protecting the self when the environment could not provide safety.

Unfolding in therapy happens slowly. It can look like naming a thought that once felt dangerous, allowing a feeling that had always been pushed aside, or noticing that closeness does not immediately lead to loss. Each of these moments loosens what had been tightly held and allows more of the self to be present.

Rilke’s words remind us that to remain folded is to live apart from what feels most real. Therapy creates space for a different kind of life, one in which the hidden parts of you can gradually be seen and held. To unfold is to return to the shape you were always meant to inhabit.

09/19/2025

Even on the hardest days, it helps to have words that steady you. These reminders are here to offer support when your own feel far away. You can return to them as often as you need, and let them stay with you until they begin to feel true.

09/16/2025

This Comes Up a Lot — a series on the questions and patterns we hear again and again.

Many people come to therapy saying, “I know where this comes from...so why can’t I change it?”

Insight matters because it helps make sense of your story, but patterns are not only cognitive. They are stored in the nervous system and reinforced through relationships, which is why analysis on its own does not shift them. In therapy, change begins by slowing down, noticing what happens in the body, and practicing new ways of responding until the system learns a different path forward.

If you feel caught between awareness and change, it does not mean you are failing. It means you are in the very place where the deepest work takes shape.

09/10/2025

We’re so proud to share that our therapist, Samantha Potthoff, M.A., LMFT, was featured on the Mental Health: Hope and Recovery podcast.

In the episode, Samantha speaks openly about what it means to practice therapy with both skill and heart. She touches on how to find the right fit with a therapist, what role innovative treatments like ketamine can play alongside psychotherapy, and why hope is such an essential part of recovery.

Listen now through the link in our bio.

09/05/2025

Growth rarely moves in straight lines. It can look like progress one week, resistance the next, and returning to the same lessons over and over. That doesn’t mean you are failing. It means your system is practicing, protecting, and integrating at a pace that feels safe.

What matters is not that you never circle back, but that each time you do, you bring with you more awareness, more capacity, and a little more trust in the process.

09/03/2025

Many of us grew up learning to see ourselves through other people’s reactions. Approval and attention became the signs that we mattered. When those responses were inconsistent, our sense of self often followed suit.

Therapy invites you to practice something different: noticing your own experience as valid and letting that be enough. Worth does not need to be confirmed by someone else in order to be real.

08/29/2025

John O’Donohue, an Irish poet and philosopher, wrote blessings as invitations to return to what’s most essential: stillness, wonder, dignity, soul.

We turn to his words often in our work as therapists, especially when healing starts to feel like a checklist. “For Equilibrium” reminds us that change doesn’t have to mean striving. Sometimes it begins allowing something quieter to lead.

May this one line land where you need it today:

“As water takes whatever shape it is in, So free may you be about who you become.”

Artwork by John Frederick Kennett
Public domain image, digitally sourced.

Excerpt from For Equilibrium by John O’Donohue, from To Bless the Space Between Us.
@ Convergent Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Shared under fair use for educational and reflective purposes.

08/22/2025

This Comes Up a Lot — a series on the questions and patterns we hear again and again.
It’s common to question whether your pain “counts” enough to bring to therapy.

We often hear some version of: What if the therapist just thinks I’m fine? Especially from people who are high-functioning, who haven’t experienced a major trauma, or who were taught to downplay their emotions.

But therapy isn’t about proving your life is hard enough. It’s about creating space to explore what’s been quietly weighing on you, whether that’s self-doubt, disconnection, or the sense that something just feels off.

You don’t have to wait for a breaking point to seek support. If you’ve been wondering whether therapy might help, that wondering itself is worth listening to.

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Beverly Hills, CA
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