Many people come to therapy believing that if they can just cope better, they’ll feel better. But coping and healing are not the same. Coping helps you survive, but healing helps you change. Coping manages the symptoms of pain, while healing transforms the source of it. Both are valuable, but they function differently. In this post, we’ll […]
Written by Jessica Guobis, MA, CAADA-DP As a therapist, one of the things I hear most often is some version of this sentence: “I didn’t realize how stressed I was until I finally slowed down.” Sometimes people don’t notice until they’re sitting in my office, describing their week, and suddenly connecting the dots between headaches, […]