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Jessica Guobis, MA, CAADC-DP

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The Difference Between Coping and Healing – and Why it Matters

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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 explore the crucial difference between coping and healing, why it matters for your emotional growth, and how therapy can help you move beyond survival toward genuine, lasting well-being. What Is Coping? Coping strategies are the things we do to manage distress in the moment. They don’t necessarily change the root cause of our pain, but they make it more bearable and keep us afloat when…

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Are you stressed out? Here are 10 Signs that you might be.

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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, irritability, restless nights, and constant tension. Other times they come in convinced that their “problem” is laziness, relationship conflict, or a lack of motivation when, in reality, stress is quietly pulling the strings in the background. Stress is sneaky like that. We expect it to look like long nights at work, panic attacks, or obvious overwhelm. But often, it disguises itself in subtle everyday ways…

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