Being a Mindful Parent

Being a mindful parent takes time and commitment. How can you provide a framework for your children to help them develop into confident, solid individuals who can build meaningful lives? By exploring your own attachment patterns, you can learn to model a whole new life for your kids - the kind of lif you always wanted.

Emotional Neglect, Love and Relationships, Mindfulness, ParentingEsther GoldsteinOctober 10, 2017parenting nassau county, five towns parenting skills, attachment and relationships, trauma expert five towns, best psychologist and counseling for anxiety long island, best psychologist long island, skills to cope with anxiety

Heal You Inner Critic | IFS Therapy in New York

What is an inner critic, essentially?

It's a voice that is telling you to pause, and stop from whatever it is that you are attempting to do, think, feel or explore. The inner critic often has a worry that you won't be ok; "What if things go terribly horribly wrong?"

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How-To Stop Ruminating - Skills for Relief

Do you ever feel like your mind is taking you down a slippery path of old, upsetting memories? Tough stuff you just can't seem to "get over" and keep ruminating? Your brain does this because of how the memory of the experience was stored. Some memories, feelings, thought patterns and sensations are arranged in a specific way in your brain, making it so incredibly challenging to end the ruminating.

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What does EMDR therapy look like?

Seeking EMDR therapy in Five Towns, Nassau or in Long Island, NY? Book your session with trauma and anxiety expert Esther Goldstein LCSW today!

When you go through a tough experience and feel overwhelmed, your brain cannot process information as it ordinarily does. Because the memory isn't properly "digested" in your memory network, when you're reminded of the event, you might feel as if it's happening, because the sounds, smells, images and feelings were frozen in time and haven't been sorted.

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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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15 Steps To Personal Success

I'm frequently asked how I define success. Anyone who has met me knows that I'm all about movement and progress but not at the price of your sanity. I lean into the definition in a gentle yet curious fashion. Your success is a completely different reality and has such different flavor than the person right in front, behind or beside you on the train of life.

Anxiety, Emotional Neglect, Boundaries, Coping Skills, Love and RelationshipsEsther GoldsteinSeptember 11, 2017self esteem counseling nassau, success and goals five towns, identity and values counseling, self esteem and self confidence therapy long island, psychotherapy for relationships in five towns nassau county

Hope when you are looking for answers.

A Mental Health Blog in Long Island

What is an inner critic, essentially?