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Melissa Moore
- Oct 28, 2023
- 3 min
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...
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Melissa Moore
- Sep 22, 2023
- 3 min
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...
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Melissa Moore
- Aug 19, 2023
- 3 min
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...
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Melissa Moore
- Jul 24, 2023
- 3 min
Healing the Wounds: Addressing Minority Mental Health & Racism, PTSD, and Racial Disparities
Mental health awareness within minority communities
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Melissa Moore
- Jun 29, 2023
- 3 min
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...
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Melissa Moore
- May 26, 2023
- 3 min
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...
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Melissa Moore
- Apr 23, 2023
- 3 min
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...
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Melissa Moore
- Mar 22, 2023
- 3 min
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,...
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Melissa Moore
- Feb 19, 2023
- 3 min
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...
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Melissa Moore
- Jan 21, 2023
- 2 min
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...
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Melissa Moore
- Dec 24, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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Melissa Moore
- Nov 25, 2022
- 3 min
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”....
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Melissa Moore
- Oct 15, 2022
- 3 min
Why You Should Get Active when Depressed
How getting active can help with your depressed state.
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Melissa Moore
- Sep 24, 2022
- 3 min
Your Emotions Are Your "Check Engine" Light
How your emotions tell you about what is "off" in your life.
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Melissa Moore
- Aug 29, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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Melissa Moore
- Jun 8, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Melissa Moore
- Apr 9, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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Melissa Moore
- Jan 19, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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