Meghan Breen Therapy Services

Meghan Breen Therapy Services Addiction and Recovery treatment in NYC specializing in eating disorders, life, and shame. DBT and M Couples and Family treatment. Recovery starts with you.

Private Practice in Flatiron specializing in Mindfulness based treatments for eating disorders, addictions, and recovery. Weekly Dialectical Behavioral Skills, Mindfulness, & Women's Groups. Conversations about injustice, shame, fear, vulnerability, connection, sexuality and anything else socially constructed as taboo are welcome and encouraged here. But you can be until you're ready. coming soon.

Brining this back bc WTF. What did I miss guys? What resonates the most with you rn?Now accepting Applications for Fall ...
05/05/2026

Brining this back bc WTF. What did I miss guys? What resonates the most with you rn?

Now accepting Applications for Fall Therapy School: DBT & Somatic Skills for therapists

At least I’ve got soul still, Karen. Hard conversations instead of hot takes all damn day guys. We are not ok.
05/04/2026

At least I’ve got soul still, Karen.
Hard conversations instead of hot takes all damn day guys. We are not ok.

But at least I’ve got soul still.This first one is literally my entire personality in a meme btw.
05/04/2026

But at least I’ve got soul still.
This first one is literally my entire personality in a meme btw.

05/02/2026

You will never convince me that withholding authentic human connection is good for anyone.
❤️⚡️5 Reasons For:
Relational Healing: For those who never heard it growing up, it is a powerful corrective experience.
Humanity: It breaks the “clinical wall,” showing you are a real person who actually cares.
Motivation: Acknowledging the grueling work of therapy can provide the fuel to keep going.
Modeling: It demonstrates how to express healthy, positive emotions in a relationship.
Authenticity and transparency is healing: Shared joy is one of the fastest ways to strengthen the therapeutic bond

⚡️👀5 reasons against
Approval-Seeking: It might train the client to work for your praise rather than their own growth.
Power Dynamics: It can reinforce a “superior-to-subordinate” hierarchy.
The Focus Shift: It centers the therapist’s feelings instead of the client’s experience.
Performance Trap: Clients might hide “ugly” truths to avoid disappointing you.
External Validation: It may slow down the client’s ability to validate themselves internally.

Therapists there is nuance here but what is your stance?

05/01/2026

Please excuse me while I learn as many simple chords as possible.

Noah Kahan’s 23 Lyric: “I’ve got a feeling that won’t go away- the doctors are calling it just moving on.”The absence of...
04/30/2026

Noah Kahan’s 23 Lyric:

“I’ve got a feeling that won’t go away- the doctors are calling it just moving on.”

The absence of closure, or the ability to grieve something and make sense of it can leave us in an ambiguous state of confusion, like, “Where do I put that? It doesn’t fit anywhere.”

If you haven’t watched Noah Kahn’s Netflix special, I highly recommend it. I think the thing thats so amazing about the ...
04/29/2026

If you haven’t watched Noah Kahn’s Netflix special, I highly recommend it. I think the thing thats so amazing about the Kahn family, is the way they talk about the hard stuff directly. It changes everything. The closeness can exist because the truth and the pain are out in the open where they belong. Where they can be shared. keep being brave.

Memes and Noah Kahn.
04/29/2026

Memes and Noah Kahn.

04/29/2026

We often think “coping skills” should work like the drugs we are doing. Only taking a walk is not going to cause euphoria nor is it going to ruin your like. We take a walk or a shower, and if the pain doesn’t instantly vanish, we feel like it failed.

But Distress Tolerance isn’t about making the feeling go away; it’s about getting through the moment without making things worse. It’s about the peace you feel tomorrow when you realize you didn’t give in to the behaviors that keep you stuck. Skills don’t always “solve” our problems, they give us the capacity to face them.

🔄 Opposite Action
If your distress tells you to hide in bed, do the opposite: stand up and stretch. If anger tells you to send an aggressive text, put the phone in another room. Doing the physical opposite weakens the hold the distress has over you.

⚡️ Distract: say “I don’t have to figure this out right now.” “This is not an emergency” offer yourself a bridge or an anchor.

🌊 Urge Surfing
Think of a difficult urge (like wanting to lash out) like a wave. It starts small, peaks, and eventually breaks. Instead of fighting the wave, just “ride” it. Acknowledge the urge without acting on it, knowing that waves always hit the shore eventually.

🕯️Self-Soothing with the 5 Senses
Create a “coping kit.” A specific playlist that feels like a hug, a scented candle, a soft blanket, or even a piece of intense sour candy. These are small, tactile ways to provide comfort when the world feels too heavy to carry.

🧠 The TIPP “Stress Reset” Cheat Sheet
If you’re in a total meltdown, use TIPP to change your body chemistry fast:
T (Temperature): Cold water/ice to the face for 30 seconds.
I (Intense Exercise): Do jumping jacks or a 1-minute sprint to burn off the “fight or flight” energy.
P (Paced Breathing): Slow down. Inhale for 4, exhale for 6.
P (Paired Muscle Relaxation): Tense your muscles as hard as you can while inhaling, then release everything fully on the exhale.

Or just keep listening to The small stuff IS big stuff.
04/27/2026

Or just keep listening to
The small stuff IS big stuff.

Actually, I’m judging me. And you.
04/27/2026

Actually, I’m judging me. And you.

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