Anxiety and Depression
The Joys Are There and You Feel None of Them
You stay busy pursuing the things you love, and every one of them is still worth loving.
The happiness you expected to find inside them… keeps missing you by a little.
Underneath it sits a sadness you’ve decided not to hand to anybody.
Meanwhile You’re Being Told You’re Doing Great
A new stage of life, a new role, new people, and self-doubt show up on time for all of it.
What the people around you say is warm, and it’s true, and it lands somewhere just outside where the doubt lives.
You push a positive thought into place and hold it there.
Then this afternoon’s conversation gets replayed, and a future that hasn’t happened gets built out in detail, and you’re further inside your own head than you thought a person could go.
Bed Is Your Only Comfort or Your Biggest Stressor
Some nights are the one place that gives you anything back.
By the end of a bad one, it’s where the whole day catches up with you, and you’re tired of trying so much.
Why Kind Words Never Reach Your Doubt
Sadness is real, and it’s been real, longer than this stage of your life has.
Reassurance is aimed at the version of you that everyone else gets to see.
The doubt lives with the version they’ve never met, and it moved in early, especially if you came from parents who were hard on you.
That sadness is the part of you that’s been keeping everything you never said.
Bring Me the Version Nobody Else Gets
This work asks something of you on the first day, and what it asks for is the part you keep quiet.
The first appointment goes easier than you’re expecting, and nothing about you gets judged.
Your insecurities are seen and accepted.
Your Sadness Has a Job, and We’ll Find Out What It Is
The approach is Internal Family Systems.
We find out what the sad part has been protecting, and what the anxious part keeps watching for.
Neither one gets argued with. Both get asked what they need.
Direction or Levity, Whichever You Need That Day
Some sessions want the hard material. Some want something lighter, and we find out which one you walked in with.
Trust in yourself, and then in other people, starts growing in that room first.
Your Energy Comes Back Through What You Do
Clarity is more in reach than it’s been in a long time.
Something you’ve been rehearsing for months gets said, and it goes better than the rehearsal did.
Your actions are what make you feel confident, and the energy arrives with them.
Bed goes back to being a bed.
You’re Sensing Something New in Yourself
Fifteen free minutes, and you pick whether we talk by phone or by video.
Say the part you haven’t said to anyone, and we’ll work out together where it goes from there.
You’ll get me at (208) 768-1454.
Take the Next Step
Chances are you’ve been waiting a while to make this move.
The consultation is free, 15 minutes, by phone or video. We’ll get clear on what you want for this incredible life of yours and what it would take to have it, and you’ll come off that call with a straight answer about whether I’m the right person for the job.