by Maureen O'Connell | Dec 27, 2023 | Anxiety, Psychotherapy
What is Anxiety? Anxiety is a natural response to stress or danger, often referred to as the body’s “fight or flight” mechanism. While occasional anxiety is a normal part of life, persistent and overwhelming feelings of anxiety can develop into an...
by Maureen O'Connell | Dec 19, 2023 | Anxiety
The thing with anxiety is that oftentimes it is very much in the body and people experience it in different parts of their body, and they can locate it and say that it’s, you know, focused in their stomach or it’s focused up in their back and shoulders or...
by Maureen O'Connell | Dec 12, 2023 | Anxiety
The first thing I want to say is that in my almost 18 years of being a counselor in different settings and being a therapist in private practice, pretty much everybody deals with anxiety. Good Anxiety vs Bad Anxiety It’s just a question of the degree of it and...
by Maureen O'Connell | Dec 4, 2023 | Wellness
Today I am in the gym talking about wellness and ways that I rejuvenate myself, and the gym is one of those ways. It’s one of my happy places. And so in my earlier video, I talked about the beach and how much joy it brings me and how much it rejuvenates me, and...
