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What My Cat Has Taught Me About Being in Relationship
My cat is an orange tabby named Toby (pictured above). My husband, Jonathan, and I adopted him during the height of the pandemic, in the summer of 2020. Growing up, my family always had a dog, and I was reluctant to get a cat at first. Jonathan had been wanting one...
Adult ADHD Tips and Tricks
As a person who has lived with an ADHD diagnosis for over half their life, and as someone who has spent a lot of time studying this disorder, I know how complicated living with ADHD can be. School and work life feel impossible, relationships suffer, and as a result,...
The Enneagram, Therapy, and You: Enneagram Two
Hello! I am Shelby, a professional mental health counselor at The Works Counseling Center in Nashville, TN. Welcome back to part two of a nine-part series on the enneagram and how it can be used in therapy. If you missed part one and want to catch up, click here....
Stonewalling
In my work with couples, I often lean on the work of Dr. John Gottman, a clinician and researcher with 40 years of experience studying what makes marriages successful…and what makes them fall apart. Gottman and colleagues cite the practices of curiosity, mutual...
Transitions
In the New Year of 2021, I began my graduate program of Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Mental Health Counseling was something I was fairly new to but also not new in small ways. By this point I had books on my bookshelf to make one believe I was a therapist (book...
Are You a Great Friend?
This topic stemmed from a conversation I had with a dear friend of mine. We were discussing what it means to truly be a great friend. We examined the people in our lives and what position we would consider them to be in. It was immediately apparent that many of these...