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We are so glad you are here! We are Debbie and Meg, licensed therapists who make up the therapy team

12/10/2024

Need a meaningful gift idea for a tired mom in your life? or are you that tired mom? Meg Donica and I will be hosting a self-care workshop for tired moms in January. Details are in the graphic, but also feel free to reach out with questions. And please pass this information along to others.

11/14/2024

Lifespan Integration is a gentle kind of therapy that helps people move out of rough emotionally stuck places. If you would like information about LI, please reach out to us @ deborahruetherapy.com or email Lisa Caldwell at LisaCaldwellLMHCA@gmail.com.

03/01/2022

Often anger gets misdirected and makes a big mess! A healthy habit to develop is to notice your irritation, frustration, or anger, and then check in with yourself. What is really bugging you? Is it really the person or situation you are about to aim your wrath? We can do a lot of harm to our relationships and communities when we allow ourselves to “blow off steam” at someone or something that happens to be in the way when we feel mad. By doing your own work to figure out what you are mad about, you can then do your own work to respond to the situation in a healthy way. It is doable. And it is healthy.

02/22/2022

"Anger can be a powerful tool to facilitate change. When there is an injustice, anger creates the energy to work to make change. Have you heard the term ""righteous anger""? It refers to the anger that comes when an injustice or evil has occurred. When you look back at history, postive social change has occurred when people have responded in righteous anger to a societal ill within their communities, and work to make the situation better. When we use anger in this way, it does not cause distruction, but promotes health.
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02/11/2022

Do you tend to respond or react to your anger? If you notice the anger, and decide how you are moving forward, you are responding. If you lash out with words or actions, then you are reacting. Responding lets you choose to move through your anger without causing undo harm.

02/08/2022

Sometimes anger turned inward becomes depression. If you hold your anger in and avoid making room for the feeling, it can lead to a situational depression. If that is something you tend to do, a first step out of that space is to admit that you are angry and admit what you are angry about. Sometimes writing in a journal is a way to figure out what is making you mad.

01/28/2022

Anger is an emotion that we feel in our bodies. Everyone has their own places where they feel their anger. Where do you feel yours? Some people feel it in their throat, others feel it in their gut. Others feel it in their jaw or behind their eyes. Some feel it in their hands or feet. Taking time to know where you feel your anger, and its various levels of intensity, can help you notice when you are angry before you either blast the person infront of your, or turn that anger in on yourself.

01/27/2022

Okay all you nice people out there, get ready for an uncomfortable truth.
Anger is a healthy emotion.
That's right. Anger is one of the basic emotions that humans are designed to experience. Too often, anger is mismanaged, and gets a bad rap because of the harm that mismanagement creates. It can be confusing to figure out how to experience anger without causing harm to our relatonships or to ourselves. We often either blast someone with our anger, or we stuff it deep down inside of ourselves. Both of these attempts to manage our anger create problems in our relationships. So we often believe that anger is somehow a bad emotion, and then we feel stuck with how to move through our anger.
In the next several days, we will explore how to move through anger without causing others or ourselves harm.

01/21/2022

Civility includes considering the other person's needs in the moment, and allowing yourself to adjust your attitudes and behaviors to help the interaction have a kind tone.
At the grocery store and the checker is moving slowly? Maybe they have been working a really long shift or were just treated poorly by somebody in line. A smile, a kind word, even a thank you is a powerful act of civility. And its fun!
To drop some civility into the moment is so refreshing. Have fun infusing civility into your interactions today.

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01/19/2022

Civility is rooted in a belief that ALL people have value. That means we can be in relationship with those who think differently than us. It is not a threat to our worth when someone disagrees with us. From the lens of civility, it is more important to show respect for the person than prooving your point. Both your own and the other person's points of view matter. Nobody has to be shut down, minimized or devalued because they think differently than you. Likewise, you get to have your point of view, even if it is unpoplular. Civility creates room to be curious about someone else's ideas.

01/13/2022

"Civility. Its an old fashioned word that captures what so many of us are longing for more of in our communities- a graciousness that makes room for both you and for others, a respect for both the community at large as well as the unique people that make up the community. So how do we grow civility? It starts with our own thinking and interactions with others, and is rooted in some understandings about the inherent worth of both ourselves and others.

personinfrontofyoumatters

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12/20/2021

If you are feeling stressed out by feeling pressure to provide a meaningful and fun Christmas season for your family, may I introduce a gift that can help you reclaim your Christmas cheer?
Introducing the “Maybe Next Christmas List” This handy list is for all the incredibly great ideas you have that are really, just too much for one family’s Christmas season. Maybe this list is in your phone or in a journal-wherever it gets written, it is the place that you safely store your wish list of future family Christmas experiences.
Warm Christmas memories come from slowing down enough to really step into the moment together. The concerts, crafts, baking, movie-watching, ballets, Christmas lights viewing and more are all wonderful experiences for your family. But they do not have to happen all in the same year. Some only need to happen once in a childhood to count as a Christmas memory. So if you have a fun idea, but you already have chosen your Christmas events for the season, let yourself put it on the “Maybe Next Christmas” list. Then feel the freedom of not getting too busy and enjoy these special moments with this family of yours.

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8987 McConnell Avenue NW
Silverdale, WA
98383

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http://deborahrue.com/

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