🌿 Welcome Back to The Reset Room If you’re new here — welcome.Each week in The Reset Room, we pause together for a small shift in thinking that can reset patterns in our lives and relationships. Over the past couple weeks we’ve been exploring a theme many of you responded strongly to. First, we talked about direct communication — learning to say what we need instead of hinting and hoping people read our minds. Last week we explored how our brains build neural pathways that shape how we...
9 days ago • 4 min read
🌿 Welcome to The Reset Room If you are new here — welcome.Each week in The Reset Room, we pause together for a small mindset shift that helps us reset patterns in our lives, relationships, and thinking. Last week we talked about the importance of direct communication — using clear I-statements instead of hinting and hoping people read our minds. After that issue went out, I received a surprising number of responses from readers who said: “This is one of the hardest things for me in my...
18 days ago • 3 min read
🌿 Welcome Back to The Reset Room If you’re new here — welcome.Each week we gently reset something that may be quietly shaping your relationships, your stress level, or your peace. 🤔 Let’s Start Here… Most people would never describe themselves as passive-aggressive. But most people have done passive-aggressive things. Here’s the twist: When we do it →We think we’re being patient. Kind. Avoiding drama. When others do it →We call it manipulation. That gap?That’s where growth lives. 😂 Be honest....
23 days ago • 2 min read
Welcome to the latest edition of The Reset Room, where you will receive tips, strategies and insights about all things mental health with a focus on ways to do a reset on some of the things in your life that may be leading to distress. ✅Last week we talked about the danger of holding others to our internal standards. How easy it is to think: “If I would handle it this way… they should too.” And when they don’t — we feel disappointed. That conversation was about unrealistic expectations. This...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
🌿 Welcome to The Reset Room If you’re new here — welcome.Each week we do a small reset that quietly strengthens how we show up in our lives and relationships with a little add-in for coparents. Last week we talked about blame and taking responsibility. This week is the next layer: What happens when we stop blaming… but then we keep expecting? 🌟 A Story From the Therapy Room I have worked with clients who have extremely high standards for themselves. One in particular is coming to mind: If she...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
🌿 Welcome back to The Reset Room If you are new here, you will receive tips, strategies and insights about all things mental health with a focus on ways to do a reset on some of the things in your life that may be leading to distress. ✨ This Week’s Reset: Your Window, Your Work “He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey;He who blames himself is halfway there;He who blames no one has already arrived.” At first glance, this proverb can feel uncomfortable. Because many of us...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Welcome to the latest edition of The Reset Room, where you will receive tips, strategies and insights about all things mental health with a focus on ways to do a reset on some of the things in your life that may be leading to distress. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been building something — whether you realized it or not. First, you were invited to notice negativity.Not to judge it. Not to fix it.Just to become aware of your repeated thoughts. Then last week, we talked about how...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
🌿 Welcome Back to The Reset Room Last week, many of you took on the one-week No Negativity Challenge — noticing thoughts you’d normally miss and realizing just how quickly your mind fills in the blanks. This week, we’re building on that awareness. Because here’s the truth:Thoughts don’t just pass through us.They repeat.And repetition quietly becomes pattern. 🧠 A Story From the Therapy Room I once worked with a client who kept saying, “I don’t know why my relationships always end up the same.”...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
🌿 Welcome Back to The Reset Room If you’re new here — welcome.This space is for small mindset shifts, honest reflection, and weekly resets that fit real life. This week’s reset came straight out of my own home… and it turned out to be much harder — and more meaningful — than I expected. 🎥 The One-Week Negativity Reset Challenge Last year, my husband and I came across a TikTok challenge that sounded simple on the surface: Go one full week without negative thoughts about yourself or others. No...
2 months ago • 2 min read