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What is your body telling you?

What is your body telling you?

This picture tells a story of love, loss, nature, aging, moving, anxiety and life. It tells of the power of the mind-body connection. This is a picture of me teaching yoga to my mom and dad last week in Snow Canyon. I moved to Southern Utah from California over a year...

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What is teletherapy and does it really work?

What is teletherapy and does it really work?

It is no surprise that our world is much different today than in years past. Due to COVID-19, different rights’ movements, and economic difficulties, we need to find healthy ways to adapt to our ever changing environment. We, as mental health professionals, know how...

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Now Offering Therapy for Every Budget

Now Offering Therapy for Every Budget

As a team, we have discussed on numerous occasions the gap between good quality therapy services and cost.  Very few options exist in our area that meet this need and for that reason we have decided to now offer select therapy services at a deeply discounted rate in...

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We have today!

We have today!

15 years ago I captured this picture of my daughter holding onto my finger. She was only a few months old and I remember vividly the feelings that surrounded this period of time in our lives.  September 11 was suppose to be like any other day.  I was preparing...

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Where did that anxiety come from?

Where did that anxiety come from?

Do you ever wake up after a good nights rest to be greeted with a pit in your stomach or tightness in your chest.  Some form of anxiety has taken over your body and yet you have nothing you can really pin it to.  Your day may seem like any other, and yet in some ways...

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Can our marriage survive living long distance?

Can our marriage survive living long distance?

I had a client tell me yesterday that long distance relationships don’t work.  He was referencing the situation he and his wife were in and quite resolute that if he were to leave the area to find work, that his marriage would dissolve.  Little did he know that my...

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Are you SAD?

Are you SAD?

Many of us love fall.  The smells, the colors, and the FOOD!  What’s not to love you may wonder, unless you suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD.  If you are like most people that suffer from SAD, your symptoms start in the fall and usually last through...

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What makes you scream?

What makes you scream?

What is it that makes people love to be scared?  The science of fear has now been studied on a whole new level and available for all in Dr. Margee Kerr’s new book Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear.  The fascinating aspect of her work, is that her lab...

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Letting go…

Letting go…

The concept of mindfulness is empowering and healing.  Sometimes the hardest thing to do is take a deep breath and let go.

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Enjoy the Journey

Enjoy the Journey

My son is a budding photographer. Ok, in all honesty he is in total bloom. He has created some amazing images and won awards around the state, and although I admire his skills, there is something more about him that I find fascinating. This kid finds beauty and...

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