Living with chronic pain is a daily challenge that affects not only the individual experiencing it but also their family and friends. It’s so hard to watch someone you love suffer. This guide will help you know some of the best ways to support your friends, partner, or loved ones who have chronic pain. To get started with Houston chronic pain therapy online or in-person, contact us today at 713-565-0922.
Are you living with chronic pain? Did you know that stress can increase your physical pain? Our Houston psychotherapists can help you learn coping skills and use powerful therapeutic techniques to decrease and manage chronic pain. Contact us to learn more at https://www.wilsoncounseling.org/contact-a-therapist
EMDR can help you manage your chronic pain and even lessen pain. Our Chronic pain therapists if you are ready to get your life back. You can also learn coping skills that will help you manage day to day pain and relationships. Call us today at 713-565-0922.
It is natural for people to drift apart with time. When we do drift apart, we might even forget what we liked about the other person in the first place. Whether it's a romantic partner, a family member, or a close friend, nurturing your relationship can bring immense joy and satisfaction.
It's okay to feel scared, apprehensive, or even downright terrified. But it's also important to recognize that you're not alone in these feelings. In fact, they're more common than you might think. I can’t tell you how many of my clients feel scared during their first session. When I have been in my own personal therapy, I also feel the same jitters. I think it can be even tougher for couples counseling.
If someone you love has an eating disorder, you may feel helpless. It’s painful to watch someone you know struggling. Know that you are not helpless and you are not alone. We have eating disorder treatment therapists in Houston who can support your loved one and who can help you learn to be supportive of them as well. In this post, we discuss things you can do to be supportive, and things you want to avoid doing that may trigger eating disorder behaviors.
IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD, FOOD IS A RELIABLE COPING MECHANISM
When you use food to deal with stressors in your life, it can be really easy to overeat. Most of us use food to deal with both the good times and bad. You had a great day at work, so you want to celebrate with food. You had a bad day at work, so you want to comfort yourself with food.
This post is not meant to shame anyone or their habits. I understand the temptation to eat in the bedroom. It can feel cozy and safe. I have had clients for whom eating dinner with their family was a chaotic time, and, in some cases, a time when they were emotionally abused or shamed. So I never want to make a rule for everyone that says you should NEVER do something like eat in your room.
Believe it or not, there is such a thing as too much healthy eating. As a culture, we are obsessed with food, weight, physical appearance, and thinness. I am all for being healthy, but sometimes it can become a preoccupation that becomes obsessive and compulsive. When the desire for healthy and nutritional eating becomes obsessive, it can turn into an eating disorder called orthorexia nervosa. Call our Houston eating disorder therapists today if you are struggling with your eating. 713-565-0922
We have all used food to deal with our emotions. If I have a bad day at work, I might come home and eat some ice cream or chocolate. I have clients who stop at the drive-thru on the way home from work and get large meals and binge eat them in their car before heading home. They do this in hopes of push down some of the pain or anxiety they are feeling.
Some of you will be spending time with family this holiday. You know what they say; you don't get to choose your family. Family can sometimes feel all too free to talk about your body, your eating habits and your weight without any invitation to do so. It's annoying and even hurtful. Here are 9 polite comebacks for your family members during the holidays.
How do you go from hating your body to not only accepting it but feeling more alive in it? Is that even a realistic or worthwhile goal? Can you imagine looking at the loose skin on your stomach, stretched from carrying children, or the cellulite on the back of your thighs, or the dark circles under your eyes made worse by nights of worry and thinking that your body is acceptable, even sometimes beautiful and miraculous? Are you just wasting your time even trying?
Being bombarded with media images of the "ideal" (read thin) body shape, it is hard not to start believing there is only one type of beauty. One of the obvious problems with that is that most of us don't have bodies like the women who grace the covers of magazines. The natural comparisons, however, cause us to feel dissatisfied and down about our bodies and to pursue biologically impossible ideals we can never reach.
