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Want to learn better coping skills? More about the ACoA experience or living with family dysfunction? How to become a healthier and happier person and live a fuller life? Explore Heather’s writings and videos on various topics of mental health.
What is a healthy relationship?: Observing red, white (& pink) flags
Heather Coleman, LCSW discusses healthy relationships and red, white (& pink) flags found in friend and romantic dynamics
3 Reflective Questions to Ask Your Partner (or Potential Partner) Today To Get the Love You Want
Heather Coleman, LCSW discusses three questions to ask your partner around love and how to get your needs met more easily in your relationship
Why do Adult Children of Alcoholics Have Low Self-esteem?
Heather Coleman, LCSW discusses how ACoAs usually have low self-esteem and how it is workable in changing one’s relationship to one’s self
You, Your Anxiety & the Pandemic
Heather Coleman, LCSW shares tips and methods for working with and understanding anxiety in this semi-post pandemic period of Covid 19
Podcast: Ethan Nichtern & Heather Coleman Discuss Grief, Heartbreak & The Pandemic on the Road Home
Ethan Nichtern & Heather Coleman discuss Grief, Heartbreak & The Pandemic on Ethan’s podcast “The Road Home”
3 Simple Ways to Cope with Postpartum Anxiety
Heather Coleman, LCSW talks about 3 simple ways to deal with post-partum anxiety
Ambivalent Relationships & Relationship Repair — I’d Like to Get Close But Not *Too* Close
Heather Coleman, LCSW discusses the quest for intimacy in ambivalent relationships
Working with the Emotions: Hold Me Please
Heather Coleman, LCSW talks about how to be gentle with one’s emotions and how to cope with the inevitable waves of feeling
Becoming Friends with the Blues
Heather Coleman, LCSW outlines how to gently work with depressed, down or sad feelings
4 Steps to Reclaiming Our Emotions with MBCT
Heather Coleman, LCSW highlights 4 easy MBCT (mindfulness-based cognitive therapy) techniques that you can use to work with thoughts and feelings
4 Ways to Practice Mindfulness in Relationship
Heather Coleman, LCSW discusses some ways to practice mindfulness in relationship with others
What is Complex Trauma? Ways to Heal & Find Safety Again
Heather Coleman, LCSW discusses complex trauma, effects and ways to work with it
Holistic Ways of Dealing with Postpartum Anxiety (PPA) and Postpartum Depression (PPD)
Heather Coleman, LCSW speaks about how to deal with the multitude of symptoms that can arise after having a baby
Video: Understanding Resentment in Relationships
Heather Coleman, LCSW offers a video on understanding resentment in relationship
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