The Center for Awareness and Hope LLC

07/29/2022

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THE HARDENING AND THE HATE

The first time the world breaks your heart
the shock is overwhelming
you learn, quite quickly
that life is cruel and often unfair
and so the hardening starts.

The next time the world breaks your heart
you get angry
at yourself
for not seeing it approach
and so the self-hatred begins.

As life goes on, you harden and you hate yourself
more and more
with every heartbreak that comes.

You harden and you hate
you hate and you harden…

And you don’t even see how your own cruelty
towards your self
is causing you even more pain
than the world itself.

How to end this cycle?

You soften, and you love.
You love and you soften…

And you know
that pain will always come
but there’s no need to make that worse
by joining in.

Donna Ashworth

From ‘I Wish I Knew’

Art by Catherine McMillan, Art

06/04/2022

11/16/2021

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Skills Training Group
for Young Adults
Starting Soon

DBT is an evidenced-based treatment for adults and adolescents that teaches skills to build a life worth living. The skills class covers 4 modules: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness. DBT is effective for depression, anxiety, eating disorders and other issues that involve difficulty with regulating emotions, tolerating distress and interacting effectively with others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stz--d17ID4

Please email avafrotton@gmail.com for details.

Dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents and young adults (DBT) is a clinical program within the Young Adult and Family Center that targets high risk, mu...

03/29/2020

Meditation: calls on loving presence by opening to the heart and spirit of whatever being in our life we most experience as calm, wise and compassionate.

01/29/2019

DBT Skills Training Classes for adults every other Thursday 5:45PM in Montville NJ.

More than group therapy, DBT skills groups teach evidenced-based skills on emotion regulation, mindfulness, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness.

Watch this short video to learn more about DBT.

Morning and evening groups starting soon.

Please contact me at avafrotton@gmail.com or 973-222-7863 for more information.

Dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents and young adults (DBT) is a clinical program within the Young Adult and Family Center that targets high risk, mu...

01/23/2019

Neuroplasticity - the ability for the brain to change throughout our life - can be the reason we suffer but it can also be the reason we heal, grow, and flourish. We live in an exciting time in which we understand that, despite our past or present circumstances, we have significant control over our own happiness.

11/05/2017

Short video on a new therapy I'm trained in that helps people who have tendency towards being over-controlled and rigid. For example, social anxiety, OCD, treatment resistant depression, anorexia, over-controlled/perfectionistic personality (OCPD). I would be happy to answer any questions you may have!

A brief introduction about the problem of overcontrol and a new approach to treating difficult to treat disorder by applying radical openness

10/15/2017

Do you, or someone you know, have a terrible fear of vomiting? The clinical term for this fear is Emetophobia and it can be debilitating. I am starting a group to help those with this fear using a combination of proven therapies - CBT, RO-DBT, mindfulness, behavior modification and more. This group will also be very helpful for those who avoid or restrict certain foods and those with a fear of choking. If interested, or if you have any questions, please contact me at (973) 222-7863 or avafrotton@gmail.com. I look forward to hearing from you!

10/04/2017

Self-esteem is often tied to our achievements and can fluctuate. Self-compassion, on the other hand, is a skill we can practice and improve on, and the benefits to our life are enduring. Contact me if you'd like to work on being more self-compassionate. I have some great resources I can pass along!