New Paths

06/05/2024

To paraphrase the author, the core of PTSD is disempowerment and disconnection. The primary task of healing PTSD is the rebuilding of reasonable, informed trust.
--Judith Herman, MD, from the book 'Trauma and Recovery.'
I cannot recommend this book enough!

01/25/2024

"Worry is actually a manageable, workable problem. The reason people have so much trouble with worry is that worry literally tricks you. It goads you, tricks you into responding in ways that you hope will help but which actually make your troubles more severe and more persistent." Dr. David Carbonell, The Worry Trick

05/20/2020

05/20/2020

What helps me when I'm frustrated? Knowing that emotions are signals, but they are NOT facts about the world!

05/20/2020

A concise summation: Fears and skeletons and memories of bad encounters leave you undeveloped and avoiding things. The psychoanalytic process is the careful encounter with those repressed elements of the self. The hope is that a clear encounter will redeem that part, and unite it with the remainder of your personality and make you stronger as a consequence.
--Dr. Peterson

03/04/2020

My therapy practice for anxiety and perinatal mental health has a new listing in Psychology Today. So happy!
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/dolly-or-darlene-sundstrom-seattle-wa/732128?fbclid=IwAR3OyEq_9MAD0TzLLL7d6KdPKf7bu8jnA-1qdJ-3zYaEIIFJdq0jbFpu3jM

Dolly (Or Darlene) Sundstrom, Counselor, Seattle, WA, 98125, (425) 357-7013, My therapy with clients focuses on reducing symptoms and building lifelong emotional resilience. I have deep experience in helping people overcome anxiety and in helping pregnant and postpartum mothers. My philosophy is tha...

03/04/2020

I have a new website!

www.DollySundstrom.com

01/14/2020

11/29/2016

On the purpose and benefits of birth plans, which are a communication tool, not a directive: "Good communication, support and compassion from staff, and having her wishes respected, can help her feel in control of what is happining and contribute to making birth a positive experience for the woman and her birth companions." --Nancy K. Lowe, The Myth of Women's Choices in Maternity Care

05/05/2016

V. Frankyl, founder of Logotherapy, believed that people could become aware of their tremendous and often untapped resources within their healthy core, using the defiant power of the human spirit.

05/27/2015

Tonight I'll be speaking at the PALS Monthly meeting discussing my new class: Confident Birth Without Anxiety. It will be held at the Kenmore library at 7pm. There will also be opportunity to connect and discuss birth with other doulas. Everyone is welcome. $10 suggested donation for non members. I hope to see you there!

05/07/2015

After doing the hard work of hypnotherapy for anxiety and finally beginning to get free from that hard place it's normal to feel un-tethered, light, but also waiting for the other shoe to drop. Know that what comes after that stage is breakthrough. Living and being OK without the settled security we crave, that was never attainable anyway.

03/30/2015

A party for birth professionals!
Come and preview my new class 'Confident Birth Without Anxiety' on April 6th.

Don't worry--I won't try to teach you about birth, and you'll leave relaxed and knowing a few new tools for coping with stress. Food and drinks provided.

When/Time: Monday April 6th at 6:30pm
Where: The great room of Midwife Seattle
RSPV: Go to www.TakeNewPaths.com to contact me.

Dolly the Doula Birth Support with Dolly Sundstrom Since becoming certified as a labor doula in 2003 I’ve helped families at over 100 births at homes, birth centers and all the local hospitals. I’ve often been asked about my philosophy about birth. It’s a 3 word answer: woman centered birth. Not…

02/27/2015

Did you know that a 2013 study in the Journal Birth concluded that women with low fear of childbirth reported the most positive birth experience? In two months New Paths will be offering a 90 minute class on how to reduce anxiety in birth and beyond.