Robert Clarke MFT

Working from home can be great... but it comes with its own challenges, especially in this time of the virus.

Be concerned, but don’t get into a rut hitting your head against a brick wall – that will only give you a soft head.

You can try using emoticons, but more than anything else, your mood when you read a text changes how you interpret it.

Is a mask blocking your smile? Why not try a wave, or a cheery greeting?

The problem with calling something normal, is that the implication of forever makes us feel trapped.

This is a good time to have some conversations about external pressures that are affecting you and your partner.

Are you finding yourself engaging more often than you would like in some self-soothing or self-medicating behaviors?

Normally with our busy lives, we’re looking for a break. Now with this forced break, you might be looking for something to do...

When you find yourself afraid of the future, the best thing you can do is to stop the FOF reaction and get back to your wise brain.

When we’re calm, we might misunderstand something we hear but instead of reacting, we will ask a question, or just dismiss it.

Reading the news can feel like you’re helpless and powerless. Please know that you’re not. Despair is about your thinking...

Have you ever found yourself reacting in a situation that required responding and then wondering why you said what you said?

Have you ever thought about doing therapy over Skype or FaceTime? These days, you don’t always to visit a therapist in person to get help.

I believe that just as we’ve learned these stories, we can also unlearn them, change them, or replace them with more useful stories.

Regardless of what sexual experience you have, if you're in a sexual relationship it’s time to talk about sex with your partner...

Social media platforms are designed to scramble the pages with a mix of old and new information making them different every time you look.

How about taking a moment to think about what you already have? I’d encourage you to take stock and practice being thankful every day.

Those important things like “putting on your oxygen mask” always seem to fall down the list to somewhere after “assisting others.”

Summarizing what you’re hearing can be very powerful in its ability to diffuse an argument, and it only takes a moment.

The Ten Commandments of Self-Esteem.