Houston is also a major hub for the healthcare and biomedical industries. It’s home to the Texas Medical Center, which is the largest of its kind, and where more heart surgeries are performed than anywhere else on the planet. The city seems to have fantastic resources to cater to the physical health of its population. […]
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6 Reasons to Start Therapy in the New Year
New year, new you, right? The new year often comes with a lot of social pressure to improve ourselves through making resolutions and setting goals for the upcoming 12 months. One great way to take advantage of the impulse toward self-improvement is to start therapy in the new year. It might never seem like the […]
Why Knowing Your Partner’s Love Language Matters
Have you ever felt like you and your partner were speaking different languages when you don’t see eye to eye? Sometimes, it can feel like you don’t know how to communicate what’s going on, or that they aren’t able to understand the way you are getting your message across. This idea led to the development […]
5 Ways to Cope With Toxic Positivity
Do you feel positive all of the time? Probably not, because you’re human and you experience a range of emotions. We’re not designed to feel just one thing all of the time. We feel waves of emotions, and these emotions range from negative to positive to neutral and everything in between. In the last few […]
A Guide To Overcoming Loneliness In A Relationship
Have you ever felt loneliness in a relationship? Loneliness isn’t just for single people. Anyone can feel loneliness in a relationship, no matter how many connections they have. No matter how many or what kind of relationships we have, sometimes we all feel lonely. Feeling lonely / loneliness can be an uncomfortable feeling, and it […]
How To Deal With a Depressed Partner: 5 Tips To Help
Watching your partner struggle with depression can be extremely difficult. No one likes to see someone they care about suffer, and depression can feel senseless and even hopeless at times. Take heart knowing that there are ways you can support your depressed partner. There are also some important things to keep in mind to make […]
What Causes Inner Child Grief?
When was the last time you paid attention to your inner child? Picture yourself like a Russian nesting doll. Your present self, at the age you are now, is the largest outer toy. Since we can only see the outside, we assume each of us are showing up in the world only as our present […]
How To Deal With Regret: 5 Tips For Moving On
Have you ever done something you regret? We all have regrets in life. Sometimes regrets are about things we did, and sometimes they’re focused on things we didn’t do. Regret can feel intense, so it’s an emotion that people sometimes fear. Regret is common, and it is possible to move forward from things that you […]
7 GRC Blogs to Help You Manage Grief
Grief is extremely hard to navigate. There’s so much we’re never taught about grief–especially how frequent it can be in our life, how it can come from sources other than death, and how the stages of our grief aren’t necessarily easy little steps. And often, until we experience it, we aren’t given any tools or […]
Allowing Yourself to Grieve Your Unlived Life
There are many different kinds of grief. We can grieve a lost loved one, an end of a chapter, lost time, and more. It doesn’t have to shatter your world to be worthy of grieving. Because there are so many different types of grief, it can be helpful to see grief and the grieving process, […]