Open Arms Transition Center

Boundaries are difficult for some people due to the lack of appropriate boundaries in their childhood and youth. If you haven’t seen and experienced healthy boundaries it can be difficult to enforce them as an adult, especially if your parents do not have healthy bound...

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By now we are all so used to hearing “Have a good day” when we are leaving a store, or a friend, wherever...but rarely do we put that to good use.

What does it mean to have a good day? For each of us, that looks different, some of my best days have been bad days. Usuall...

Time for checking up on your goals you've set at the beginning of the year. 

How have you been doing? Are your goals still realistic? Have you been able to knock anything off the list? 

It is important when you set your goals, that you do check-ins. 

1. To measure progres...

Let me start this by saying that therapists are human beings too. We get it wrong, just like anybody else. However, we have a responsibility to our clients to attempt to do good towards them, and not harm them. 

Therapists, no matter the flavor, have boards and ethical...

It is the most wonderful time of the year! 

Yes, this is the time of the year when we blow the dust off those handweights that are stuffed under the couch and determine that THIS IS THE YEAR we get in shape. We tromp off to the gym, struggle to find parking and motivati...

Therapists are not dentists. That means, we don't pull teeth. If you're engaged in therapy, chances are, you are there by choice, that is, you sought out a therapist and you intend to make changes to your life or find some explanation for something in your life.

So why...

One of the most frustrating things for a therapist and I would imagine the client is the roadblocks that interfere with life. 

Getting someone ...this... close and then losing all of that progress is incredibly disappointing in the field, and can sometimes cause a clien...

Personally, the most frustrating part of life (look, conflict!) is the fact that conflict exists. In my dreams, I would love a world where everyone gets along and looks out for everyone else, but that isn't reality, despite my every attempt to make it so. 

We live and f...

Here we go again! Another year of stress brought on by the holiday season! If you're anything like me, you're probably sandwiched between planning menus, deciding where people are going to sleep, and figuring out what to get that one person that you don't know well eno...