By Katie Leikam, LCSW, LISW-CP, BC-TMH It’s later in the evening and your partner is working late.  You are bored and your mind starts to wonder.  Suddenly, you have worked yourself up that there’s something wrong in your relationship and you reach out to text them.  Fighting happens, either over text, or over the phone […]

By Gabrielle Thorpe In A Mirror Is Where We Find A Reflection or Our Appearances, Not on A Heart Is Where We Find Reflection of Our Soul. -Unknown It’s that time of the year again. Where everyone is looking forward to the start of a new year. People are making goals to better themselves and […]

By Gabrielle Thorpe When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. – Jean Shinoda Bolen       In our daily lives we tend to find ourselves so busy with school, work, family, and other responsibilities that we […]

By Gabrielle Thorpe “Knowing Yourself is the Begging of All Wisdom” – Socrates During the course of our lives we spend a tremendous amount of time getting to know one another. We know our family members, friends, coworkers, significant others and so many others that are a part of our daily lives. But have you […]

By Gabrielle Thorpe Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. —Confucius Everyday is not going to be a great day. Every now and then we have our bad days, weeks, months or even years. But it won’t always be this way. It may seem as though everything […]

By Gabrielle Thorpe Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together. […]

By Zoe Dale, LPC Once in a while we might have the odd sleepless night, it is when not sleeping becomes common place, that we end up feeling the impact.  Not sleeping is not only miserable, it is also a recipe for poor health.  Without remedy, over time not sleeping can become a habit that could […]

By Chris Van Dyck, LCSW As humans, we are imperfect. We make mistakes—a lot of mistakes—and we make them frequently. Sometimes these mistakes lead to our unintentionally harming others as well as ourselves. To some extent, this is unavoidable. Despite our best intentions and most earnest efforts, we inevitably say or do things that lead […]

Did you know success can make you anxious? Did you know success can be just as hard to handle for some folx as failures? When you are successful, it can lead to a whole new set of worries and anxieties. You may be worrying if you can continue at the level that you have reached. […]

As I am flying back from WPATH advanced mental health training, I am thinking about how we each identify and the act of making assumptions. People can make a lot of assumptions about you when you are part of the LGBTQ community. For instance, most people assume I am a straight woman. As a queer […]