Having a healthy, loving and connected relationship is one of the most rewarding experiences. Couples often start out in a good place and can’t imagine things going awry. The biologically necessary attachment...
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Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Happy 2024, I Have a Few Things for You
2023 was quite a year. There were definitely some challenges but my hope for you is that you are finding some inspiration and optimism for the New Year. LoveAndlLifeToolbox.com was about experimentation and change in...
I’m a Therapist: What Happened When I Met an Arab and a Jew
(The following piece is by Dr. Carl R. Nassar, Ph.D., LPC, CIIPTS) It’s a Tuesday morning. A world away, more than two hundred hostages are held captive in the underground caverns of Gaza. I’m in my office—an upstairs...
10 Reasons You Need Therapy Now
The stigma around seeing a therapist is not nearly what it once was. In fact, many understand that going to therapy doesn’t mean there is “something wrong with you” but rather there are things you may...
Why Your Therapist Will Not Likely Give You Advice
Therapy is not about your therapist “fixing” you. I sometimes joke with clients that if I had a magic wand, I could wave it and their challenges would disappear! This certainly would make therapy go...
Be Your Own Therapist: 3 Questions to Ask Yourself
Something is off. Happiness and peace are eluding you. Perhaps your relationships continue to self destruct or you simply feel stuck. Most of us can relate to the experience of being off track. It could be an...
If I Was Your Therapist
If I was your therapist I’d want you to know… You’re not broken…It’s your experiences that have led to faulty beliefs that might be telling you that. I care about what happens to...
How to Get Your Fear to Back Off
Amy Eden Jollymore, an adult child of alcoholics, dives into ways to get unstuck from fear. She believes if you start with the small stuff, you will develop the courage to tackle bigger and scarier things…one...
Amy Eden