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Bainbridge Island Counseling Blog | Women’s Therapy & Chronic Illness Support

When Your Mid-Life, Menopausal Body Changes: How Therapy Helps

When Your Mid-Life, Menopausal Body Changes: How Therapy Helps

How to Figure Out Who You Are in Midlife

How to Figure Out Who You Are in Midlife

Midlife Transitions, Identity & Meaning

Bainbridge Island Counseling Blog | Women’s Therapy & Chronic Illness Support

Why You Can’t Just “Set Better Boundaries” (and What to Do Instead)

Why You Can’t Just “Set Better Boundaries” (and What to Do Instead)

When You’ve Reached the End of Your Rope: The Power of Surrender in Burnout

When You’ve Reached the End of Your Rope: The Power of Surrender in Burnout

Therapy for Women Who Do Too Much: Finding Freedom from Burnout and People-Pleasing

Therapy for Women Who Do Too Much: Finding Freedom from Burnout and People-Pleasing

When Chronic Illness Uncovers Deeper Issues: What Therapy Can Help You See

When Chronic Illness Uncovers Deeper Issues: What Therapy Can Help You See

Why You Keep Ending Up in the Same Exhausting Situations

Why You Keep Ending Up in the Same Exhausting Situations

The Double-Edged Sword of Validation: When Feeling Seen Turns into Self-Doubt

The Double-Edged Sword of Validation: When Feeling Seen Turns into Self-Doubt

How to Get Out of “Rock and a Hard Place” Situations: The Secret to Empowered Decision-Making

How to Get Out of “Rock and a Hard Place” Situations: The Secret to Empowered Decision-Making

Why it's Hard to Ask for Help

Why it's Hard to Ask for Help

The Magic of Ditching Your Morning Routine

The Magic of Ditching Your Morning Routine

Overdoing, Burnout & Boundaries

Bainbridge Island Counseling Blog | Women’s Therapy & Chronic Illness Support

Exploring Your Sexuality and Coming Out - At Any Age

Exploring Your Sexuality and Coming Out - At Any Age

How Therapy Can Help You Build Healthier, More Fulfilling Relationships

How Therapy Can Help You Build Healthier, More Fulfilling Relationships

When Something Feels Off: Recognizing Unhealthy Relationship Patterns

When Something Feels Off: Recognizing Unhealthy Relationship Patterns

What a Healthy Relationship Actually Feels Like (and Why So Many of Us Miss It)

What a Healthy Relationship Actually Feels Like (and Why So Many of Us Miss It)

Why Therapy Isn’t Just for You: Healing Trauma to Protect Your Relationships

Why Therapy Isn’t Just for You: Healing Trauma to Protect Your Relationships

Understanding Entitlement: Why It Happens and How to Protect Yourself

Understanding Entitlement: Why It Happens and How to Protect Yourself

When to Invest in and When to Let Go of Friendships

When to Invest in and When to Let Go of Friendships

How to Ask For What You Need Without Making People Defensive

How to Ask For What You Need Without Making People Defensive

How to Stay Grounded Around Difficult People (Without Losing Yourself)

How to Stay Grounded Around Difficult People (Without Losing Yourself)

Relationships and Connection

Inside Therapy

Bainbridge Island Counseling Blog | Women’s Therapy & Chronic Illness Support

Why You Might Not Be Healing in Therapy (And What Needs to Change)

Why You Might Not Be Healing in Therapy (And What Needs to Change)

Not Getting Much Out of Therapy? How to Tell If It’s Time to Stay, Switch, or Stop

Not Getting Much Out of Therapy? How to Tell If It’s Time to Stay, Switch, or Stop

The Power of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

The Power of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

Being in Therapy Doesn't Mean You're Doing Inner Healing Work

Being in Therapy Doesn't Mean You're Doing Inner Healing Work

7 Ways to Get More Out of Therapy

7 Ways to Get More Out of Therapy

Bainbridge Island Counseling Blog | Women’s Therapy & Chronic Illness Support

The One Thing That Kept Me From Getting Depressed During the Hardest Times

The One Thing That Kept Me From Getting Depressed During the Hardest Times

5 Counterintuitive Mental Health Tips That Actually Work

5 Counterintuitive Mental Health Tips That Actually Work

How Unpleasant Emotions Can Actually Make Your Life Better

How Unpleasant Emotions Can Actually Make Your Life Better

How to Make Friends With Uncertainty

How to Make Friends With Uncertainty

Rumination: Why it Happens and How to Respond to It

Rumination: Why it Happens and How to Respond to It

Everything You Know About Self-Esteem is Bullshit

Everything You Know About Self-Esteem is Bullshit

How I Always Get Good Sleep (and How You Can Too)

How I Always Get Good Sleep (and How You Can Too)

When Life (and Everyone in It) Gets on Your Nerves: Learning the Real Meaning of Acceptance

When Life (and Everyone in It) Gets on Your Nerves: Learning the Real Meaning of Acceptance

How to Work With Anger Without Letting It Take Over

How to Work With Anger Without Letting It Take Over

Stop Trying to “Choose Joy”: Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Hard Feelings

Stop Trying to “Choose Joy”: Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Hard Feelings

How Your Mind Can Make You Sicker (and What to Do About It)

How Your Mind Can Make You Sicker (and What to Do About It)

Why You Don’t Need to Be Happy All the Time

Why You Don’t Need to Be Happy All the Time

Staying Motivated When You're Sick, Tired, or Depressed

Staying Motivated When You're Sick, Tired, or Depressed

Emotional Health & Personal Growth

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Why You Can’t Just “Set Better Boundaries” (and What to Do Instead)

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Why You Can’t Just “Set Better Boundaries” (and What to Do Instead)

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When You’ve Reached the End of Your Rope: The Power of Surrender in Burnout

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When You’ve Reached the End of Your Rope: The Power of Surrender in Burnout

On the hardest days of chronic illness, when symptoms feel unbearable, learn how surrender and…

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Therapy for Women Who Do Too Much: Finding Freedom from Burnout and People-Pleasing

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Therapy for Women Who Do Too Much: Finding Freedom from Burnout and People-Pleasing

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When Chronic Illness Uncovers Deeper Issues: What Therapy Can Help You See

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When Chronic Illness Uncovers Deeper Issues: What Therapy Can Help You See

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Why You Keep Ending Up in the Same Exhausting Situations

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Why You Keep Ending Up in the Same Exhausting Situations

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The Double-Edged Sword of Validation: When Feeling Seen Turns into Self-Doubt

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The Double-Edged Sword of Validation: When Feeling Seen Turns into Self-Doubt

Growing up, I had parents who were quick to tell their friends and colleagues how proud they were of me. They would recount my achievements with glowing admiration, but…

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5 Counterintuitive Mental Health Tips That Actually Work

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5 Counterintuitive Mental Health Tips That Actually Work

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How to Get Out of “Rock and a Hard Place” Situations: The Secret to Empowered Decision-Making

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How to Get Out of “Rock and a Hard Place” Situations: The Secret to Empowered Decision-Making

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How to Stay Grounded Around Difficult People (Without Losing Yourself)

High Five Design Co 5/25/23 High Five Design Co 5/25/23

How to Stay Grounded Around Difficult People (Without Losing Yourself)

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How to Make Friends With Uncertainty

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How to Make Friends With Uncertainty

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Why it's Hard to Ask for Help

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Why it's Hard to Ask for Help

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Stop Trying to “Choose Joy”: Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Hard Feelings

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Stop Trying to “Choose Joy”: Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Hard Feelings

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