This is a question a lot of my clients struggle with. Introversion, anxiety, and dread are all three very different things that often get placed under the anxiety umbrella. Introversion is simply the state of feeling that you expend energy in social settings. This can happen at the one on one or group level. Feeling…

Being your own best friend is rooted in having compassion for yourself and truly liking who you are. Most of us have a time in our lives when we enjoyed our own thought process and doing things on our own. When was that for you? The next question is to ask ourselves, do we want…

Everyone at one time or another in their life will feel shame, guilt, and disappointment. It’s when these feelings are allowed to fester or sit in your mind too long without a solution that self-loathing creeps in. Negative emotions, when left unchecked and unexpressed, turn inward and toward the self. Once that begins to happen,…