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HLW Therapy

Hi! I'm an Adult & Adolescent Psychotherapist providing services including treatment for: Anxiety, Depression, Eating Disorders, Self-Esteem, and Relationships.

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08/25/2024

🫶🏼Did you binge this weekend after restricting during the day and a few cocktails at night?
💫That vicious cycle—feeling shame, frustration, and self-loathing come Sunday after “losing all control” you had worked so hard to achieve—used to be my normal. Because I’m familiar, I know how much it sucks; How prisoner you feel to control, to food, to your exercise regimen, to your body.
💫Because I went through treatment myself, and that treatment led me to attain a master’s and pursue a degree in psychotherapy to help others struggling with the same hamster wheel, I can help you break the cycle.
💫I am so thankful for my full life and happiness which I can say I have because I reached out to people, who had experience, educationally, and often times personally, for help.
💫Don’t get me wrong, it’s terrifying asking for help to change the one thing that brings you a source of control. But it’s so worth it.
Contact me and my team at the contact form in the link in bio or email me if you’re interested in exploring what you could gain from breaking the cycle 🫶🏼

08/16/2024

POV: you’re my client and Grey is Eeyore-ing

08/13/2024

Struggling to come up with a reason not to restrict? Here are a few!

07/13/2024

Pro tip: always wear neutrals so that the one time you don’t it looks like it’s your birthday and your friends tell the waiter it is so you get free birthday cake ice cream 🩵

07/03/2024

Take what you need, Holiday version:

🧨Holidays and days off of work can be great, but holidays also come with challenges for many people… (some listed below to name a few!👇🏼)
🫶🏼 Difficulty practicing patience and emotional regulation during travel
🫶🏼 Flexibility with change of routines
🫶🏼 Practicing spontaneity
🫶🏼 Feeling pressure to have ✨the best✨ time
🫶🏼 Struggling with comparison
🫶🏼 … the list goes on.
👉🏼 If you struggle with perfectionist tendencies and/or see yourself in any of these “it’s complicated” relationships with Holidays and days off, take what you need 🫶🏼🍉👙⛱️

07/01/2024

A fever on a Monday would’ve sent a younger version of me into a spiral.
Mondays were my reset, or “cleanse”, “detox”, “clean eating”, “being good”, after “allowing” myself food freedomn over the weekend.
Was I pumped to wake up sick? Absolutely not, but did I beat myself up? Did I assign a black or white meaning to it and the rest of the week? Also no.
This is your reminder to challenge perfectionist thoughts and listen to your body/allow space for rest and recovery.
ALSO: been FULL SEND into the Dallas cowboys cheerleaders docuseries. Haven’t finished but so far loving the light producers are shining onto the mental health, anxiety and eating disorder side of things. Highly recommend!

07/01/2024

What are you hoping to grow?? 👇🏼🤎

06/25/2024

✨Knowing what to say when a friend is struggling is hard.
✨Sometimes even knowing when a friend is struggling is hard if they cope by withdrawing or isolating.
👉🏼Save this for when you feel you want to check in on a friend but don’t know what to say 🫶🏼

06/24/2024

Monday Scaries anyone?? 👀 Here are 5 small steps you can take to stop that spiral!

06/23/2024

🫶🏼Things I did this weekend vs things I didn’t:

Things I did:
✔️ Hit a big grief milestone I shared with my dad in his new apartment
✔️ Met a best friend’s baby girl
✔️ Stood by my cousin’s side at her wedding
✔️ Celebrated and danced with my big Italian family
✔️ Enjoyed all the delicious food
✔️ Talked to myself nicely
✔️ Focused on being present, making memories, and showing up for the people I loved

Things I didn’t do:
✔️ Step on the scale
✔️ Let my luteal phase impact the way I talked to myself about my body especially when clothes were tight and pictures were taken (Iykyk)
✔️ Worry about exercising anything “off”
✔️ Deny myself

What were your wins this weekend??

06/18/2024

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06/15/2024

I somehow just realized there’s a season two of Your Honor on Netflix. I LOVED season one. Such a well done show sooo I know what I’m doing this whole weekend, see ya whenever I finish the season!
This is a quote from S2 Pt1 by Jimmy Baxter, Mob Boss to his son and I paused because it’s such a powerful simple concept. Growth can feel frustrating bordering on intolerable because it takes repetition of new behaviors (or refraining from behaviors) and a lot of time.
This time passing can often feel like you’re “not doing anything” but reframing this as actively practicing patience as the kind of mental shift I can get behind!
What are you working towards that is taking patience??

06/13/2024

7 subtle signs that you are growing:
You learn your boundaries and express them
You begin to trust yourself more often
You accept what you can’t change and shift your focus to what you can change
You stop committing to more than you have time/energy for
You no longer let other people dictate how you feel about yourself
You realize that not every relationship is supposed to last
You stop trying to fix or save people
What’d I miss?? Comment below! 👇🏼

06/13/2024

Did you know? 💭 Follow for more therapeutic insights on OCD

06/10/2024

06/06/2024

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06/05/2024

✨The difference is important✨

Leaving this here because the term “Narcissist” has become a bit of a buzz word and its overuse and misuse can make the experience for victims of narcissistic abuse more difficult.

👉🏼Victims of Narcissistic abuse may experience symptoms consistent with emotional, physical, psychological, verbal, and even physical abuse.
👉🏼Sustained exposure to Narcissistic abuse can lead to symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a pervasive sense of shame, overwhelming feelings of loss of control, intense distrust in self, feelings of helplessness, decreased impulse control, and emotional flashbacks.
👉🏼Victims of narcissistic abuse often feel like they are “losing their minds,” and find themselves questioning if they are the problem. The impacts are isolating, and usually take significant time and therapeutic work to treat.

06/05/2024

If less of your time and mental space was taken up by feeling distressed about your body, what would you channel it toward?
What part of yourself do you like and you want people to see and get to know more of?
What is something small that you can do today to move a little bit closer to that? 🫶🏼

06/05/2024

Anger is so often an emotion that is followed by shame and negative self-talk.
Something that happens almost daily in at least one session in my day (often more) is that I hear my clients beat themselves up and get ✨angry✨ at themselves for feeling angry. (I still have to catch myself when I do this too 🤪)
What if we didn’t look at anger with such a strong negative stigma? The next time you feel angry, could you challenge yourself to see how you can best harness your anger by using it as an opportunity for introspection? These three questions help me when I need it!

05/31/2024

Friday thoughts going into a weekend…💭

05/29/2024

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05/28/2024

This is your reminder after a long weekend that it’s OKAY if:

🫶🏼 People around you (IRL or social media) are talking about “dieting”, “detoxing”, or “cleansing” after the long weekend while you’re trying to break that cycle.
🤍 A pair of pants are tight. This is natural after enjoying foods that are different from your daily routine or after enjoying more food than is typical for your daily routine. This is temporary and will regulate in a few days of returning to your normal routine (without restricting or compensating).
👉🏼If one weekend of eating/drinking more than what is your norm influences your weight past the point of natural fluctuations then you may want to explore this with a therapist & a nutritionist, because this can be your body’s way of telling you that your norm is too restrictive.
🫶🏼 You’re working through challenging thoughts about restriction, or compensation. When overwhelmed, we seek things that bring us comfort. At one point hyperfixation on food/body-image/exercise brought you a sense of comfort. If you now know or are learning that this was misguided comfort, try to practice compassion by recognizing that the thoughts are your brain trying to comfort you through means that no longer serve you. Instead of assigning shame to that, can you notice the intent, and shift your focus to finding a new more adaptive means of self-soothing?

05/25/2024

Understanding our inner critic 💭

05/24/2024

Save for when you need it 🫶🏼🤓🧠🫠

05/23/2024

Did you know 💭

05/22/2024

I see a lot of clients who, upon first starting therapy, say that they don’t understand why they struggle with X issue or get anxious in Y situations, because they “came from a normal family”.

👉🏼The thing that’s problematic with this idea —that mental health struggles only “happen to” people from abusive or neglectful families, is that many family dynamics that take place in homes with well intended and loving parents are normalized because they’re not at a glance overtly harmful or malicious…but that doesn’t mean, from a developmental psychology standpoint, that they don’t shape the way we view ourselves and the world (and sometimes not in the most adaptive of ways).

👉🏼Without recognizing and understanding how certain family dynamics can have negative personal and interpersonal impacts later, in adulthood, a lot of people are left feeling guilt, shame, and confusion because they don’t know why they act the way they act or struggle the way they struggle and just chalk it up to “something being wrong with them.”

👉🏼The goal in therapy, isn’t to demonize anybody’s family or negatively impact family relationships, but to relieve shame, foster more transparent communication and boundaries, and help a person adjust to more adaptive perceptions of themselves and more adaptive behaviors in their life.

05/21/2024

File under things I hear in daily sessions a LOT (so you are not alone 🫶🏼)

05/20/2024

Gentle reminder that you are not “too much”.

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