Expert mental health care with compassion
One of the greatest gifts parents can give our children is a secure attachment. But many of us may not be certain what that actually means or how to create it. About half of us grew up without secure attachments with our own caregivers. So we may not have healthy modeling to go from. Dr. Dan Siegel has done extensive research on attachment that can help us understand the benefits[…]
About this time every year, moms roll into therapy sessions with a mix of exhaustion and panic on their faces. “Summer is halfway through, and we haven’t done half the things we wanted to!” While they describe feeling very busy and overwhelmed with summer parenting tasks, they also feel guilty for not creating all those magical moments. This…is an impossible expectation that contributes to feeling like a parenting failure. And[…]
We live in a culture that promotes striving, grinding, and achieving. We often measure our worth based on how hard we push ourselves to grow and accomplish in a day, season, or year. When faced with a choice of whether to take on a new challenge, we feel pressured to dive in. The consequence of choosing an alternative is guilt, shame, or feelings of being a failure. While we know[…]
Lakefront Psychology, LLC is celebrating five years providing expert care with compassion. It’s an honor to serve the mental health needs of our community and be a trusted resource during difficult times. I want to take this opportunity to share a personal message of gratitude to all the individuals I’ve had the opportunity to work with these past few years. As a psychotherapist, I don’t often talk about how this[…]
A client recently shared that listening to podcasts always results in more anxiety for her because she feels there’s so much to learn and so much to do “right.” The burden to cultivate humans who survive their adolescence, care about themselves, others, their planet, nutrition, exercise, science, the arts, and the dog’s bathroom needs at the same time I’m cooking dinner after soccer practice and before piano lessons is…heavy. Parenting[…]
We all have moments when we lose our cool. It’s the end of a long, tiring day, and when your kids won’t cooperate with the bedtime routine, you find yourself yelling and slamming doors. Or maybe you’re keyed up watching your favorite sports team, and when they get a bad call by the ref, you throw your phone to the ground and shatter the screen. This is what we call[…]
So many of us feel like we simply have no time and no energy left for ourselves. Our days feel full of endless responsibilities and chores. We grind through the to do list each day, often multitasking to maximize efficiency. Then we crash in the evening from sheer exhaustion only to wake up and begin the process all over again the next day. This endless cycle inevitably leads to burnout. […]
This is a message to current and potential future patients. Congress recently enacted a “No Surprises Act” set to go into effect 1/1/2022. The act is intended to protect consumers from inadvertently receiving care from out of network providers they did not choose and thereby incurring unexpected medical bills. More information on the implementation of this federal act is available through the link below. https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/no-surprises-act-implementation-what-to-expect-in-2022/ There is great discussion and[…]
“I love my kids, but I just need a break.” This is the refrain I hear from dedicated, loving parents over and over again this past year. It’s often said with a hint of shame for feeling so frustrated and fed up with the constant demands of parenting. We live in a society that says we should love our kids unconditionally, and if we’re frustrated or annoyed by them, then[…]
You’re not imagining it. Parental burnout is worse than ever these days. It’s that feeling like you just can’t keep it all together, let alone get one step ahead of the chaos. It’s that sense that you’re juggling a set of plates while walking a tightrope as someone keeps lobbing water balloons at you. And it may explain why you utterly exhausted and you find yourself snapping at the slightest[…]