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When setting out to write about depression, I find myself apprehensive. This is not due to writer’s block, or to a lack of clinical information or personal experience in treating my clients that suffer from the disorder. I hesitate out of concern that I will not do those who have been diagnosed enough justice. I […]
What is self-esteem? How do we get it? And most importantly, how do we maintain it? These questions lie at the heart of so many young people’s concerns as they look ahead and attempt not only to know who they are, but to like who they are. In my personal journey toward self-esteem, years of […]
We sat down with Lauren Maltsch to get to know more about her work as a therapist as well as her insights on self-esteem and sometimes, the struggles to get it and maintain it. What’s your definition of self-esteem? Self-esteem is our positive sense of self, and more specifically, it is the high appraisal of […]
In graduate school, I had the privilege of sitting across a holistic healing psychotherapist. Her philosophy was rooted in a body-centric and meditative modality, with guidance from ancient healing systems and contemporary neuroscience. I remember speaking to her about a difficult experience of mine—she urged me to rock back and forth. She wanted me to […]