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High Functioning Anxiety

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High Functioning Anxiety

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High Functioning Anxiety

MICHELLE CANTRELL COUNSELING

Serving individuals and couples in California, Virginia and D.C.

California

595 E. Colorado Blvd., Ste 205

Pasadena, CA 91101

I can’t tell you how many times I hit the snooze button in my life. I just wasn’t ready to deal … until I had no other choice. That’s often how it happens. We don’t confront our pain until the costs of ignoring it beco

As an adult you may recognize this as true even though you believed these things WERE your responsibility when you were a child. However, you may still be doing some or all of these behaviors, perhaps to keep the peace. It wasn’t your job as a

This remains one of my all time favorite poems. There was a time when I could never have imagined experiencing this for myself. I didn’t believe it was possible to truly love myself. After all, I’d never be “thin enough”, &ldq

I took this picture in the waiting room of a former therapist’s office (yes, therapists can — and should — go to therapy). I spent years silencing pain I didn’t even know was there. I had all the usual well worn methods to avo

Pain gets passed down by those who can’t or won’t allow themselves to feel it. Families avoid their pain through cycles of addiction, patterns of minimization and denial, and various forms of abuse and neglect. Can you take the first step

When we don’t have a better way to cope with difficult emotions, we might turn to numbing behaviors. But there is no “local anesthesia” for emotional pain like there is for physical pain. When you numb your emotions you numb ALL of

One of my favorite quotes. I personally had this experience when confronting my trauma. I felt like a complete wreck — which was a stark contrast to the view of myself as someone who had it all together. But the coming undone was the only way t

Yes. Owning our story can be hard, especially when we’ve spent our whole lives avoiding it. We can get really good at telling ourselves it want that bad. And that’s a great way to cope in the short term. But denying our story, and the pai

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Virginia & D.C.

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