Posts in Boundaries
Anxiety and Parenting & 6 Tips for Today

Struggling with parenting in a calm fashion? Need support + tips to help you access calm? Schedule your session with Esther Goldstein LCSW, Anxiety, Parenting and Trauma Expert. You can parent your family from a calmer place.
Learn more by clicking on 6 tips for today and booking your first counseling session in Long Island, NY

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10 Steps for Abandonment Healing in Long Island & New York

As an adult, do you notice you get easily triggered, frustrated, and feel insecure? It may be due to emotional neglect and abandonment wounds.

Read on to try these 10 steps to healing your abandonment wounds + start living life as it’s meant to be lived.

Anxiety, Trauma and Abandonment Therapy in Five Towns, Nassau and Long Island, NY

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Trauma Therapy in Long Island? A 10 step Self Questionnaire

Do you need trauma therapy?

I’ve provided a 10 step self questionnaire that let you know if you’re ready for trauma therapy. Now, healing from any kind of trauma takes time and is dependent on your unique pace. However, if you’ve had some symptoms that you were hoping would go away and they just aren’t letting up, it may be time to reach out to an expert to help you heal.

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The "Safe Filter"

Relationship Counseling for Healthy Boundaries and Healing Co-dependent Patterns in Long Island,NY. Schedule a session with Anxiety and Relationship expert Esther Goldstein LCSW today.

What does it mean to feel safe? You feel safe when you know you're cared for, that you're protected from danger and you have someone who has their eye out for you. When you're choosing who to bring into your life, it's important to know how to assess the healthy people from the potentially dangerous people. 

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Forgiveness. Can I?

Carl Rogers wisely says, “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

Forgiveness is one of the hardest lessons to learn and even more difficult to implement. At the same time, forgiveness is one of the first steps necessary in order to create a shift, a change, steering towards a new direction for yourself.  How is it then, that we forgive ourselves for bad choices, habits, broken relationships, or having been stuck in the muck of "just getting-through-ness" for a while? 

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Satiating the need for Emotional Connection

In the past blog I discussed the concept of emotional hunger.

If you’re in relationships that feel disconnected or where you're left thirsty for real, steady connections, read on. What are emotional needs? And what does it meant to feel emotionally satiated?

Click here for relationship counseling in New York, and reach out for counseling today.

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