The Woodswalk Blog: 
Counseling, Psychotherapy, and Psychology.

You are the best person for your child when they are sick or hurt. You are your child’s best advocate. But YOU need to take care of you.

When most of us write we have goals and objectives: We are sharing something on Facebook, we are e-mailing for work, we are trying to finish a report. Free writing is the polar opposite of all of this. It is directionless, goalless, and entirely for you. It allows your mind to unwind onto the page and provides an excellent window into your inner thoughts as they exist at this moment. In a therapeutic context, it is an excellent way to de-stress and take a look at what is actu

Most of us spend a lot of time avoiding sadness with the general idea that if we move fast enough it won’t catch us. It’s understandable––being sad feels lousy after all. Why would we want to feel that way? Culture reinforces this idea. Sadness gets labeled a negative emotion and is seen as a symptom to be controlled or eliminated. If you tell someone you’re feeling sad the question “what’s wrong?” will likely be the first thing out of their mouth. So to borrow that question