The Value of Acceptance
Discover the true meaning of acceptance and how it empowers us to live and love fully, even in the face of loss, darkness, destruction, and despair. This article explores the difference between resignation and courageous acceptance, showing how light, creativity, hope, and connection help us move forward.
What is Therapy?
Therapy is a powerful tool to recover your inner world, build emotional and relational capacities, and create lasting personal growth that continues long after sessions end.
The Real Reason You’re Burned Out (And What To Do About It)
Wear out, often mistaken for burnout, happens when prolonged stress and unmet emotional needs erode your inner world, and healing begins with reconnecting to yourself and your humanity.
What Makes Marital Therapy Effective?
Effective marital therapy helps couples heal, communicate honestly, and deepen emotional and spiritual connection by addressing core feelings and unmet needs.
What is EMDR and How Does It Work?
EMDR therapy helps you heal from trauma and emotional wounds by reprocessing stuck memories with compassion and care. Through guided eye movements, you can face the past, release pain, and reclaim hope for your present and future.
What Can I Expect in Counseling?
Counseling is a courageous journey toward emotional healing and self-awareness. By naming your true feelings, anger, lonely, shame, guilt, hurt, fear, sadness, or gladness, you begin to uncover what’s been hidden and open the door to genuine connection and growth. Discover how counseling helps you show up fully and live more truthfully.
Caring Enough to Confront
Learn how to confront with love and courage by using “I feel… when you…” statements that express truth without blame. This article by Dr. Chip Dodd explains how healthy confrontation differs from conflict, helping you communicate with honesty, vulnerability, and care to strengthen your relationships.
The Need of Accomplishment
Discover the deeper meaning of accomplishment beyond achievement. Learn how recognizing limitations, celebrating progress, and practicing true rest can bring lasting fulfillment. Shift from chasing success to embracing a healthier, more purposeful life.
Early Emotional Trauma
A simple email from a fertility clinic unlocked memories I thought were long healed, reminding me that our bodies never forget. This article explores how unprocessed trauma lives in both mind and body—and how compassionate, multi-layered healing can restore hope and wholeness.
Boundaries: Where Self-Respect Begins and Resentment Ends
Boundaries are gentle acts of self-respect that protect your time, energy, and emotional well-being. They create space for honest connection by honoring your needs and staying true to who you are. Healthy boundaries begin with self-worth and are essential for authentic, sustainable relationships.
Parenting | Tools for Parents
Discover how reflecting on your own childhood can deepen your connection with your kids through every stage of their development. This parenting tool embraces "good enough" parenting, helping you grow alongside your child with empathy, memory, and heart.
Illusion of Control
Discover how the concept of scaffolding can illuminate our struggles with control and emotional health. This article explores the importance of building strong foundations for mental wellness, emphasizing the need for surrender, resilience, and the power of storytelling in personal growth.
Healthy Pride Gives Competence Pleasure
Discover how healthy pride fosters competence and pleasure by embracing our limits and humility. Acknowledging our imperfections can transform shame into personal growth, leading to authentic satisfaction and deeper relationships.
Embracing Fear: A Path to Courage
Fear is often viewed as something to overcome, but it can guide us toward clarity, courage, and connection. This article explores how acknowledging fear leads to growth and healing. Through stories like The Lion King and tools like EMDR therapy, we discover that facing fear may be the truest path to freedom.
The Power of Powerlessness
Our powerlessness invites us to grow through honest connection with ourselves, others, and God. Embracing this need sets us free to live with strength through vulnerability.
Breaking Free from Codependency: Rediscovering Your Heart
Breaking free from codependency involves setting healthy boundaries and rediscovering your true self, allowing for genuine emotional connection and freedom. By learning to honor your needs and embrace healthy dependency, you can move beyond control and experience true intimacy and joy in relationships.
Learning From Clive
“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all…our memory is coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing…” (Luis Bunuel)
Emotional Amnesia
“It takes great courage to stay connected to our hearts as we live in a tragic world. Yet, the restoration of personal freedom is well worth the pain.” Blog written by Dr. Colton Shannon
A Good Reason to Remember
Reflecting on past experiences and acknowledging emotions is essential not as an end goal, but as a necessary step towards healing, growth, and living fully.
“Fear of Children” by Dr. Chip Dodd
“Fear of Children” by Dr. Chip Dodd
https://www.chipdodd.com/