🌿 Welcome Back to The Reset Room If you’re new here—WELCOME.Each week, this is your space to pause, reflect, and reset patterns that may be quietly impacting your life and relationships more than you realize. Last week, we talked about how indirect communication and “hint dropping” creates disappointment and distance. This week… we’re going to explore defensiveness. You may be saying, Tina... but when I speak up it backfires on me because the other person seems to always get offended or...
10 days ago • 3 min read
🌿 Welcome Back to The Reset Room If you’re new here — welcome.Each week in The Reset Room, we pause together for a small shift in thinking that can help reset patterns in our lives and relationships. Over the past few weeks we’ve been exploring something many of you said resonated deeply — communication in relationships. First, we talked about the importance of saying what we need clearly instead of hinting. Then we explored how our brains build neural pathways that shape how we interpret...
17 days ago • 3 min read
🌿 Welcome Back to The Reset Room If you’re new here — welcome.Each week in The Reset Room, we pause together for a small shift in thinking that can reset patterns in our lives and relationships. Over the past couple weeks we’ve been exploring a theme many of you responded strongly to. First, we talked about direct communication — learning to say what we need instead of hinting and hoping people read our minds. Last week we explored how our brains build neural pathways that shape how we...
24 days ago • 4 min read
🌿 Welcome to The Reset Room If you are new here — welcome.Each week in The Reset Room, we pause together for a small mindset shift that helps us reset patterns in our lives, relationships, and thinking. Last week we talked about the importance of direct communication — using clear I-statements instead of hinting and hoping people read our minds. After that issue went out, I received a surprising number of responses from readers who said: “This is one of the hardest things for me in my...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
🌿 Welcome Back to The Reset Room If you’re new here — welcome.Each week we gently reset something that may be quietly shaping your relationships, your stress level, or your peace. 🤔 Let’s Start Here… Most people would never describe themselves as passive-aggressive. But most people have done passive-aggressive things. Here’s the twist: When we do it →We think we’re being patient. Kind. Avoiding drama. When others do it →We call it manipulation. That gap?That’s where growth lives. 😂 Be honest....
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Welcome to the latest edition of The Reset Room, where you will receive tips, strategies and insights about all things mental health with a focus on ways to do a reset on some of the things in your life that may be leading to distress. ✅Last week we talked about the danger of holding others to our internal standards. How easy it is to think: “If I would handle it this way… they should too.” And when they don’t — we feel disappointed. That conversation was about unrealistic expectations. This...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
🌿 Welcome to The Reset Room If you’re new here — welcome.Each week we do a small reset that quietly strengthens how we show up in our lives and relationships with a little add-in for coparents. Last week we talked about blame and taking responsibility. This week is the next layer: What happens when we stop blaming… but then we keep expecting? 🌟 A Story From the Therapy Room I have worked with clients who have extremely high standards for themselves. One in particular is coming to mind: If she...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
🌿 Welcome back to The Reset Room If you are new here, you will receive tips, strategies and insights about all things mental health with a focus on ways to do a reset on some of the things in your life that may be leading to distress. ✨ This Week’s Reset: Your Window, Your Work “He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey;He who blames himself is halfway there;He who blames no one has already arrived.” At first glance, this proverb can feel uncomfortable. Because many of us...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to the latest edition of The Reset Room, where you will receive tips, strategies and insights about all things mental health with a focus on ways to do a reset on some of the things in your life that may be leading to distress. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been building something — whether you realized it or not. First, you were invited to notice negativity.Not to judge it. Not to fix it.Just to become aware of your repeated thoughts. Then last week, we talked about how...
2 months ago • 4 min read