How to Process Your Feelings: Mindful Healing Step-by-Step
Moving through difficult emotions with curiosity, compassion, and meditation leads to profound healing. Here I share step-by-step how to process your feelings.
Multiracial Mental Health (Part I): The Mixed Experience
Multiracial, Mixed, or biracial, others want to know “what” we are before learning who we are. There are more multiracial or Mixed-race people in the U.S. today than ever before, yet we can easily feel the experience of othering in the communities we grow up around.
Multiracial Mental Health (Part II): Healing in the Mixed Community
Multiracial folks, in particular, often face conflicts while growing up around embracing identity versus fitting in. For some, not fully identifying with one racial or cultural group can leave us wondering where we belong, if not with one of those monoracial groups.
Suffering is Optional: Softening resistance and honoring your pain
As a Licensed Psychologist and therapist, I know all too well that life involves pain and still believe that suffering is optional. Whether a breakup, hurtful conversation with a family member, heartbreak, loneliness, or a rug burn, life happens. Therapy can help us better respond to our pain.
Resolutions: Push for what you believe in. Make meaning. Dream big.
I challenge my readers to think about New Year’s resolutions in a different way this year. What if you were to launch into 2021 striving for more meaning in your life?
How to Be an Anti Racist Therapist: 5 Impactful Action Steps
It’s due time that inclusivity and racial justice for Black folks be on all of our minds. Here are some valuable resources on offer from activist educators, counselors, and community leaders on how to be an anti racist therapist.
How to Be the Best Friend You Need Right Now
At some point during our work, my clients often let me in to how they judge themselves, criticize themselves, or otherwise see themselves as not enough. Here I discuss the whys and hows of self-compassion, or how to be your best friend.
Therapy on Zoom: 5 Life Lessons Covid-19 Used to Completely Rock Our World
When concerns over the covid pandemic spread to my therapy practice in Austin TX in March 2020, I made the transition to doing all of my sessions over video. Here I share the life lessons I squeezed out of the lemons that are 2020, based on how my clients have coped with the catastrophe.
50 Things I Can Do (At Home) to Survive the Pandemic: Miranda’s menu of coping ideas
As concerns over the coronavirus pandemic intensified and Austin, Texas moved to staying at home, I realized that I needed a set of easy ways to help myself. I spent a Saturday morning writing the below list of 50 ideas.
