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Compassion, Moving Forward, and Rebuilding Your Life After a Traumatic Relationship

Melissa Moore

Feb 143 min read

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...

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How to Heal and “Move Forward”: What Recovering from Emotional Trauma Looks Like

Melissa Moore

Oct 28, 20233 min read

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, 20233 min read

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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Understanding “High Functioning” Anxiety: Signs, Symptoms, and Coping Strategies

Melissa Moore

Aug 19, 20233 min read

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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Healing the Wounds: Addressing Minority Mental Health & Racism, PTSD, and Racial Disparities

Melissa Moore

Jul 24, 20233 min read

Healing the Wounds: Addressing Minority Mental Health & Racism, PTSD, and Racial Disparities

Mental health awareness within minority communities

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How to Cope with the Symptoms of PTSD and Regain Emotional Connection

Melissa Moore

Jun 29, 20233 min read

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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Trauma’s Impact on Our Ability to Trust and Build Intimate Connections

Melissa Moore

May 26, 20233 min read

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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What is Social Anxiety and How Does it Differ from Social Awkwardness

Melissa Moore

Apr 23, 20233 min read

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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Understanding the Impact Trauma Has on Self-Worth

Melissa Moore

Mar 22, 20233 min read

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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When You are Coping with Relationship Loss, Depression, and Grief

Melissa Moore

Feb 19, 20233 min read

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, 20232 min read

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, 20223 min read

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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Bad Relationships Have Made Me HATE the Holidays

Melissa Moore

Nov 25, 20223 min read

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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Why You Should Get Active when Depressed

Melissa Moore

Oct 15, 20223 min read

Why You Should Get Active when Depressed

How getting active can help with your depressed state.

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Your Emotions Are Your "Check Engine" Light

Melissa Moore

Sep 24, 20223 min read

Your Emotions Are Your "Check Engine" Light

How your emotions tell you about what is "off" in your life.

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Discover the powerful link between your body and your emotions

Melissa Moore

Aug 29, 20223 min read

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, 20222 min read

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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Why You Have Anxiety - For NO "Reason" at all

Melissa Moore

Apr 8, 20223 min read

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, 20222 min read

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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