As a practicum student a wise supervisor of mine shared the following story with me, a story that she regularly shared with her own clients to illustrate the internal battles we all struggle with. Not only does it normalize the internal battle we all struggle with but it also gives us the empowerment to chooseContinue reading “Two Wolves”
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The Purpose of Depression
I’ve always loved the idea of looking for the function of our emotions, a common skill taught in Dialectal Behavioral Therapy (DBT). If we can better understand our emotions and their motivators the more insight and management we can exercise within ourselves. I came across an article which declares that some researchers now believe depression serves a higherContinue reading “The Purpose of Depression”