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Insights and Guidance for Healing
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Adult Children of Alcoholics
Heather Coleman, LCSW, a psychotherapist practicing in NY, NJ and CT, describes the way to start working with the inner critical parent voice (or inner critic) and to develop an internal loving parental voice. The ACoA can begin the journey of reparenting themselves with care, love and support.
Adult children of alcoholics often lie when it would be easier to tell the truth. How does this happen? Parents model behavior to their own children; if you consider that alcoholism often includes deception, secrecy and twisted truths, then you can see the straight line from kids observing their parents behavior and then mimicking that behavior themselves. Moreover, in alcoholic homes, it may have been unsafe for children to tell the truth.
Heather Coleman, LCSW discusses the challenges and skills necessary to parent from love and kindness
Heather Coleman, LCSW discusses how to set boundaries when this wasn’t necessarily a skills taught in dysfunctional family systems
Heather Coleman, LCSW discusses why it can be hard for ACoAs to feel feelings and regulate their emotional lives
Heather Coleman, LCSW explains techniques and methods for beginning the process of reparenting one’s self.
Anxiety
Heather Coleman, LCSW talks about how to be gentle with one’s emotions and how to cope with the inevitable waves of feeling
Heather Coleman, LCSW highlights 4 easy MBCT (mindfulness-based cognitive therapy) techniques that you can use to work with thoughts and feelings
Heather Coleman, LCSW speaks about how to deal with the multitude of symptoms that can arise after having a baby
Depression
Heather Coleman, LCSW talks about how to be gentle with one’s emotions and how to cope with the inevitable waves of feeling
Heather Coleman, LCSW highlights 4 easy MBCT (mindfulness-based cognitive therapy) techniques that you can use to work with thoughts and feelings
Mindfulness
Heather Coleman, LCSW discusses some ways to practice mindfulness in relationship with others
Heather Coleman, LCSW explains techniques and methods for beginning the process of reparenting one’s self.
Parenting
Heather Coleman, LCSW speaks about how to deal with the multitude of symptoms that can arise after having a baby
Heather Coleman, LCSW discusses the challenges and skills necessary to parent from love and kindness
Post-Partum
Heather Coleman, LCSW speaks about how to deal with the multitude of symptoms that can arise after having a baby
Relationships
Heather Coleman, LCSW, a psychotherapist practicing in NY, NJ and CT, describes the way to start working with the inner critical parent voice (or inner critic) and to develop an internal loving parental voice. The ACoA can begin the journey of reparenting themselves with care, love and support.
Adult children of alcoholics often lie when it would be easier to tell the truth. How does this happen? Parents model behavior to their own children; if you consider that alcoholism often includes deception, secrecy and twisted truths, then you can see the straight line from kids observing their parents behavior and then mimicking that behavior themselves. Moreover, in alcoholic homes, it may have been unsafe for children to tell the truth.
Heather Coleman, LCSW discusses how to set boundaries when this wasn’t necessarily a skills taught in dysfunctional family systems
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Stress
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Working with Emotions
Heather Coleman, LCSW talks about how to be gentle with one’s emotions and how to cope with the inevitable waves of feeling
Heather Coleman, LCSW highlights 4 easy MBCT (mindfulness-based cognitive therapy) techniques that you can use to work with thoughts and feelings
Heather Coleman, LCSW discusses why it can be hard for ACoAs to feel feelings and regulate their emotional lives
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