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Check-in #1 | Full-Time Availability | Dr. Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
Check-in #2 | Check-in & Chill: The Couples Guide to Stop Arguing and Improve Healthy Communication | Dr. Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
Check-in #3 | Reacting or Responding? | Dr. Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
Check-in #4 | Daily Gratitude | Dr. Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
Check-in #5 | My Favorite Tools | Dr. Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
Check-in #6 | Musical Date Ideas | Dr. Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
Check-in #7 | How We Do The Small Things Is How We Do All Things | Dr. Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
Check-in #8 | Shared Joy = Double Joy | Dr. Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
Check-in #9 | Vulnerability Thru Music | Dr. Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
Check-in #10 | Relationship Conversation Starters | Dr. Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
Check-in #11 | Take Mindful Time Away | Dr. Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
Check-in #12 | New eBook Launch!!! Dr. Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
Check-in #13 | Feel Connected While You Sleep | Dr. Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
Check-in #14 | Rebuild from Rain | Dr Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
Check-in #15 | Practice Makes Progress | Dr Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
🤘🏼Check-in #16 | Healthy Action Resolves Anxiety| Dr Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
🤘🏼 Check-in #17 | Curiosity is Curative | Dr Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
🤘🏼 Check-in #18 | Daylight is Good | Dr Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
🤘🏼 Check-in #19 | Drink More Water | Dr Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
🤘🏼Check-in #20 | Relationships are a Team Sport | Dr Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
🤘🏼Check-in #21 | The Theory of Love | Dr Dan at Growth & Gratitude Online Therapy
Infinity Loop: Understanding Negative Cycles in Your Relationship
This resource draws from the work of Dr. Sue Johnson and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). EFT is a highly regarded, researched, and effective framework to help couples improve their relationships. The slides above are meant to inform work done as part of therapy to better identify, understand, and transform patterns / cycles of conflict…
3 Mindful Prompts to Self-Reflect & Improve Your Relationships
Building mindfulness and self-reflection skills takes time and practice. It is just like establishing any other habit or exercising muscles in your body. With consistent practice and attention to your inner self you will start to observe yourself, your attitudes, patterns, and relationships differently. One way to cultivate these skills is through journaling or active self-reflection around a particular topic or prompt. When we journal, draw, dance, run, sing, or express ourselves creatively different parts of our brain are able to process thoughts and feelings that allow access to memories, connections, and associations.
Do you feel ‘stuck’ in a pattern or want to bring awareness to your anxieties, love, trust, anger or frustration? Use the prompts below as a jumping off point for reflection that will spark mindfulness and attention to these parts of yourself…
All is (Not) Fair in Love and (There is No) War
The saying goes, ‘all is fair in love and war’, but there are many things that are not ‘fair’ when it comes to love, especially arguments that feel like war.
Have you been in fights, disagreements, yelling matches, or flat out warfare with a partner who supposedly loves you? It doesn’t feel good when it happens and it is not how love really works.
It is not possible to truly love someone and also scream horrible insults at them, throw things, and demean them publicly. Sorry, not sorry. If that describes you or your partner then this is important for you to read. The kind of love that allows these behaviors to occur repeatedly might be better described as possessive love, immature love, insecure love, or abusive love. If that is not the kind of love you or your partner want, and you are ready and willing to work to make things better, then I encourage you to consider Couples Counseling…
GROWTH through Meditation: Solve Your Mindfulness Funk
Have you been asked lately if you meditate? Do any of your friends or people you follow mention mindfulness and its impact on wellbeing?
Mindfulness is everywhere these days. New apps are popping up right and left to take advantage of collective cultural anxiety while health and wellness experts share how meditation can alleviate any and all symptoms in just a few minutes a day. It is strange to see ancient spiritual practices next to corporate logos. Consumers (aka human beings) are craving peace of mind like never before as they (we) are bombarded by endless notifications from our phones alongside violent and catastrophic events.
If you have tried meditation or are interested in growing your practice to deepen the experience and get more out of it, you are not alone. There are a number of simple ways to improve your meditation practice so that it is more enjoyable and you see better results over the long term…
Relationships are their own living entities that need attention and love to grow and thrive. When the relationship is neglected it will stagnate. Just like your body needs care and attention to feel good and perform in the form of sleep, food, and exercise your relationship needs time set aside to focus on keeping it strong. This goes beyond date nights, text messages about grocery shopping, and being in the same room with the tv on in the background. To truly build your relationship over time you need to set aside dedicated time each week to ‘check-in’ with your partner about how the relationship feels, what you need to feel more connected, and how you can support each other. With just a little bit of time and effort, these weekly ‘check-ins’ will more than pay for themselves as you feel more emotionally connected, understand each other better, and enjoy spending time together.
For many couples, especially busy professionals or young parents, the relationship can be taken for granted or neglected because both people are individually spreading themselves too thin. You are on auto-pilot much of the time instead of being present in the moment. Checking out in this way becomes a vicious cycle. The more each individual retreats to their corner and bottles their emotions, tries to solve all their problems independently, the more they will feel isolated, and the more doubtful they will feel about the health and strength of the relationship…
Guided Practice to Feel More Grounded in Your Body & Relationships
Scripted videos with calming nature backgrounds that will take you through mindfulness practices. Using principles from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Meditation, and Positive Psychology these videos will help you to de-stress and connect with others better.