Quick question: When was the last time you hugged an old friend you happened to bump into at the grocery store? More than likely, you answered – “Well, certainly before last March.” That’s just one of the side effects of the pandemic. While millions of people are now...

There have been obvious ramifications of the pandemic we’ve all been enduring since March of this year. Job losses. Cancelled vacations. New exercise routines. The list goes on. Parents have one more concern as the school year begins: a negative impact on social...

Pain can be seen as the Body’s Messenger Telling Us That Things Are Not Right – And Let’s See How to Make Them Better Estimates based on research indicate that from ten to thirty percent of the American population suffers from chronic or recurrent physical pain. Pain...

Individual counseling insights brought to you California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Loss Can Be Painful – But It Can Open the Door to New, and Even Better, Life Experiences Loss is embedded in the process of living. It happens to everyone and it is inevitable....

Individual counseling insights brought to you California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.” – Joseph Campbell We live in a world of extroverts. Our social norms are geared to people who are “out there”...

Individual counseling insights brought to you California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Most of us build our lives around the belief that we will be relatively safe. Granted, normal daily life involves many stressors, especially in these hectic times, but we expect...

Individual counseling insights brought to you California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Timely information about mental health during the pandemic. Everyone feels sad from time to time. It’s only natural. Most people go through blue days or just periods of feeling...

The Bleakest Times of Our Lives Can Give Rise to Remarkably Positive Life Transformations A life crisis is one of the inevitable features of our lives. Learning how to survive a crisis is a crucial skill, and one that we will probably need more than once throughout...

An Eating Disorder Is a Very Serious Problem That Demands Immediate Attention The Chinese used to bind the feet of women to make them smaller. So tiny and fragile were their feet, in fact, that some women were left essentially crippled, barely able to walk. To the...

The incidence of depression in our society seems to be on the rise. Recent estimates suggest that as many as one in three of us will experience some form of depression within our lifetimes. Others claim that depression may even represent a symptom of our times which...