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Compassion, Moving Forward, and Rebuilding Your Life After a Traumatic Relationship
Understanding the Impact of Traumatic Relationships Let’s talk about that relationship, that completely changed how you are in...
Melissa Moore
Feb 15, 20243 min read
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How to Heal and “Move Forward”: What Recovering from Emotional Trauma Looks Like
When you have experienced an emotional experience, that absolutely changed your whole perspective, and made you beyond scared to...
Melissa Moore
Oct 28, 20233 min read
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Is "Seasonal depression" real?
Shedding Some Light on "Seasonal Depression" and Its Impact Winter is coming, and fall is knocking on the door. So it’s probably a good...
Melissa Moore
Sep 22, 20233 min read
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Understanding “High Functioning” Anxiety: Signs, Symptoms, and Coping Strategies
High functioning anxiety ………… yeah that is a “thing” lol. So what is “high functioning” anxiety, and what does it mean? Let’s get into...
Melissa Moore
Aug 19, 20233 min read
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Healing the Wounds: Addressing Minority Mental Health & Racism, PTSD, and Racial Disparities
Mental health awareness within minority communities
Melissa Moore
Jul 24, 20233 min read
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How to Cope with the Symptoms of PTSD and Regain Emotional Connection
When PTSD has you feeling like you are operating in a bubble, feeling numb, and unable to express your emotions ................. June is...
Melissa Moore
Jun 29, 20233 min read
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Trauma’s Impact on Our Ability to Trust and Build Intimate Connections
I want to speak on how trauma impacts our ability to trust, and form meaningful relationships. Traumatic experiences can have a huge...
Melissa Moore
May 26, 20233 min read
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What is Social Anxiety and How Does it Differ from Social Awkwardness
Let’s talk about this widely used phrase ……. “I have social anxiety”. I’m sure you have heard folks use it, or you may have even said it...
Melissa Moore
Apr 23, 20233 min read
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Understanding the Impact Trauma Has on Self-Worth
Hey Folks!!! So I want to talk about how we view ourselves, after we have experienced a trauma. This has been a trend with my clients,...
Melissa Moore
Mar 22, 20233 min read
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When You are Coping with Relationship Loss, Depression, and Grief
Hey folks ……..I wanted to talk a bit about loss of relationships……..you know………….. with all this love going around. Experiencing the pain...
Melissa Moore
Feb 19, 20233 min read
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Closing the Scrapbook on Past Hurts
Welcome to the new year ………the last year is over and we’re all supposed to be thinking about doing something differently, or learning...
Melissa Moore
Jan 21, 20232 min read
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What to do About Gaslighting??
Gaslighting. This is such a “buzz word” these days right? We read about it, see it in movies, hear it in our conversations. “Don’t...
Melissa Moore
Dec 24, 20223 min read
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Bad Relationships Have Made Me HATE the Holidays
The holidays are approaching …….families and friends are gathering, gifts being given, food shared, and general “good tidings and cheer”....
Melissa Moore
Nov 25, 20223 min read
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Why You Should Get Active when Depressed
How getting active can help with your depressed state.
Melissa Moore
Oct 15, 20223 min read
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Your Emotions Are Your "Check Engine" Light
How your emotions tell you about what is "off" in your life.
Melissa Moore
Sep 24, 20223 min read
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Discover the powerful link between your body and your emotions
We really do take our bodies for granted. While they help us move and interact with this world, our bodies also try and tell us what we...
Melissa Moore
Aug 29, 20223 min read
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My family just doesn't understand !!!
“No one believes what I’m going through - they think I should just ‘get over it’.” I have heard this from so many of my clients. They ask...
Melissa Moore
Jun 8, 20222 min read
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Why You Have Anxiety - For NO "Reason" at all
A long time ago, our brains decided that we needed help determining what was dangerous and what wasn’t. True story, lol, there was...
Melissa Moore
Apr 9, 20223 min read
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Thoughts are like spiders ???
How we handle our thoughts can be very much like how we handle spiders in our home. This analogy is meant to prompt insight into how you...
Melissa Moore
Jan 19, 20222 min read
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