Finding and choosing a therapist can be an exciting proposition. Therapy is also a great place to learn about our boundaries, our needs, and requests. Remember, your therapist is working for and with you, not you for them. If you have particular goals, needs, desires, or anything important to you you’d like for a therapist to know, the consultation is a great place to share.
If you feel like people in your life are excessively involved in your life, this is enmeshment. Whether this is your romantic partner or a family member, enmeshment is when people are involved in your activities and personal things to an excessive degree. If you do not know if your partner is being excessive, it helps to know what the behavior patterns entail.
Here are the five telltale signs of enmeshment.
Relationship anxiety is when you experience more times of excessive worrying about the relationship than actually enjoying it. You could be really scared that the relationship will end as soon as it starts. Out of fear, you may even go so far as to end the relationship. To avoid doing something you will regret, here is how anxiety can affect your relationship.
When you’re struggling with long-haul COVID anxiety and fear, it’s understandable that you might get wrapped up in thoughts about how and when you’ll recover fully. You may wonder if a return to your old life and healthy state is possible. You don't have to navigate these fears alone. Your body and mind work in concert. While constant tension, unease, and worry can wear you down, there are steps you can take to ease your anxiety.
If you are a person of color, you may be coping with racial realities in ways many minority communities have for ages; family, spiritual practice, activism and outreach often help. Yet, weathering waves of anxiety, mistreatment, and the daily effort of relational and systemic challenges requires specific and support you can trust.
Persistent tension and pain feel as though they are always in your path. Until you finally dig deep emotionally and find ways to understand the roots of your pain. From there, you can use your insight and self-knowledge to find the calm that will inspire a new future and better relationships with yourself and others. Anxiety Psychotherapy can help.
Anxiety disorder coping is best achieved by managing and responding to stressors with immediate, intentional strategies that will keep you inside your “window of tolerance. “ Let’s define our terms and explore how staying in the window of tolerance can bring you more comfort and peace of mind. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver...
