Red Willow Counseling & Recovery Blog
Become an Expert White Belt
By Nick Galli, Counseling Intern An Incredible Capacity to Learn As human beings, we have an incredible capacity to learn. As children, our brains are like a sponge for knowledge and skills. But when is the last time you learned something new? As adults,...
Going With Grace
By Paige Zuckerman, Clinical Director Having to Say Goodbye Goodbyes are a generally a thankless experience that we tend to want to avoid, minimize or defer. They are some of our most vulnerable human moments, and we humans are historically not so naturally adept at...
What’s Your Window?
By Paige Zuckerman, Clinical Director You might be finding that lately it feels like life is ‘a lot.’ Maybe family, work, health, money, your spiritual life, your pets...they’re all asking for time, resources and headspace. Maybe you’re even feeling overwhelmed...
Seeing Others Again
By Paige Zuckerman, Clinical Director It’s a fairly well known fact that in most of the US things are ‘reopening’ as COVID vaccination numbers steadily increase and CDC guidelines expand. Maybe you’ve already reinvigorated your world, and it’s unfolding into the next...
Hiking the Trail of Transformation
By Vee Floros, CMHC Intern A study on exercise and self-esteem by Sonstroem and Morgan (1989) found that “The idea of personal competence, or feelings of capability to master and control oneself and aspects of the environment, is concluded to be an essential...
Finding a Therapist: The First Major Hurdle!
By Scott Marshall, CMHC Intern “Look, I’ve got problems, no doubt - it’s just whenever I decide to get some help I end up spending 3 hours on Psychology Today until I just fall asleep. Then sometimes I decide I need therapy but then the next week I’m no...
Self-Compassion During a Worldwide Pandemic
By Cara Duchene Unprecedented Circumstances COVID-19, social distancing, lockdowns, work changes, and the loss of our typical day to day structure and support has taken a toll on everyone. As we work to manage our grief and anxiety about these changes and losses, we...
What’s in Your Toolkit?
By Paige Zuckerman, Clinical Director Pandemic, Earthquakes, Wildfires Oh My! One of the wildest of years is coming to an exhausting close, with slight glimmers of hope on the precipice of 2021. Most of us know by now how strained our mental health and general...
“Home”
By Vee Floros What Makes a Home? For so much of my life, home was my childhood house in my hometown of New England. Last week my mom put our house on the market, and it has made me think a lot about the concept of home. Do I no longer have a home? What is a home? ...
Surviving the Quiet Combat of the COVID-19 Quarantine
Supplemental Spring 2020 By Paige Zuckerman, Clinical Director It's been several weeks since our cities went into a state of emergency ‘lockdown.’ Our lives seem to have become restrained and constricted as well. Many of us are feeling increasing states of...