Let today be the day you show up for yourself
I’m glad you are here …
I am a therapist providing virtual psychotherapy in North Carolina. My passion is helping women manifest and live the life they desire. Life happens to the best of us and as a result, health, relationships and overall satisfaction with life start to suffer. We can find ourselves living in the shadows of our own lives for years. What do you believe about yourself that causes you to remain stuck in that job, the relationship or even stuck in your own way? Whether you need to get past a rough patch or develop a long-term success plan, it’s important to explore core beliefs and build upon strategies that will help you when life happens, as it will. Whatever your goals are, I am here to encourage you, give you real tools (not advice) with a dose of keeping it real. I hope you know that your current situation does not have to be your final story! I would love to help you navigate through these feelings and challenges. Just have a little hope. Be consistent with your therapy. Do the work in and outside of sessions and surely, you will start to feel thankful and excited about your life!
Healthy Relationships
Our relationships from childhood form patterns for how we navigate adult relationships with colleagues, family, children and intimate partners. Trusting and forming attachments to other people may be particularly challenging. You cannot change the chaos experienced in childhood or in adult relationships, but in therapy, you have a safe space to process your feelings and experiences and learn ways to create opportunities to learn to trust and bond with others. Exploring the relationship you have with yourself first will help you to understand what you are able to control, communicating your needs, conflict resolution, and enjoying healthy intimate relationships as well as fulfilling friendships and family life.
Live Authentically
The term “imposter syndrome” has been making rounds lately. You may feel that the way others see you, is not necessarily how you feel about yourself. The anxiety of meeting new people, not feeling good enough or smart enough. You may be feeling exhausted at the end of the day from feeling like you’re “faking it.” Whether that belief is true or not; if it is too heavy for you, then something needs to change. You can work on your sense of self-worth to live fully and authentically. You are not required to be perfect to be happy. Think about what it would look like to just look at your life, as it is, and begin the process of acceptance in a non-judgmental space so you can be the most genuine version of yourself possible.
Invest in yourself
Therapy isn’t forever but the investment you make by showing up and being real about where you are hurting, what you want, any shame or guilt you may be carrying is liberating. Even better, you do not have to do it alone. It doesn’t matter what culture you’re from, your age, or how you identify yourself; the fact that you are here, in this moment, reading this and contemplating therapy is the beginning of investing in yourself. Depending on your upbringing and life events, you may have learned to believe that you should just keep quiet and deal with challenges in isolation. If you engage in your therapy in a meaningful way, you will see changes in your life that you can count on. Even if you do not know what to say exactly, when you are ready, help is a message away
“When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, ‘Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I’m going in again’—my gut reaction is, ‘What a badass.’”
— BRENE BROWN, LCSW