Tag: therapy
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Managing Holiday Overwhelm: A Christmas Reflection on Mindfulness and Mental Health
Managing Holiday Overwhelm: A Christmas Reflection on Mindfulness and Mental Health
The holidays can bring both beauty and chaos, and many people experience stress, grief, or emotional overwhelm this time of year. In this reflective holiday story, therapist Leslie Tourish, LPC, describes an unexpected moment in Chicago that reminded her how easily we lose sight of meaning in the busyness of the season. She offers practical…
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10 Effective Stress-Management Strategies
10 Effective Stress-Management Strategies
Stress: Why do we have it? Stress is the taproot of our survival system. Without it we wouldn’t have the motivation to get out of bed, nor the sense of preservation to look both ways when crossing the street. Therefore, stress in and of itself is as natural and part of the landscape as a…
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The Myth of the “Perfect Therapist”
The Myth of the “Perfect Therapist”
Struggling with low self-esteem leaves you feeling powerless, fearful, and stuck in self-sabotage. Break free with these 12 empowering steps to rebuild confidence—one manageable action at a time. Start with just one today, and watch your mindset—and your world—transform. You deserve strength, joy, and success. Begin now.
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The Myth of the “Perfect Therapist”
The Myth of the “Perfect Therapist”
Depression is often anger in disguise. Many bury their rage, fearing confrontation or rejection. Signs like chronic lateness, sarcasm, stiff muscles, or over-politeness can point to suppressed emotions. The cost? A diminished sense of self, helplessness, and lost authenticity. True healing begins when we dare to acknowledge our anger—not to blame, but to reclaim our…
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Hidden Anger Resurfaces in Many Ways
Hidden Anger Resurfaces in Many Ways
Depression is often anger in disguise. Many bury their rage, fearing confrontation or rejection. Signs like chronic lateness, sarcasm, stiff muscles, or over-politeness can point to suppressed emotions. The cost? A diminished sense of self, helplessness, and lost authenticity. True healing begins when we dare to acknowledge our anger—not to blame, but to reclaim our…
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Four Rules of a Successful Marriage
Four Rules of a Successful Marriage
All marriages take work. In this article I outline the Four Rules of a Successful Marriage and how any couple can begin re-filling their emotional bank accounts with Care, Protection, Honesty, and Time.
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10 Tips to Manage Grieving After the Holidays
10 Tips to Manage Grieving After the Holidays
Managing grief after the holidays can be difficult. These 10 tips can help you be more in control over how your grief impacts your life as “The Grieving Person’s Bill of Rights.”
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Addicted to Love and Recovering with Self-Esteem
Addicted to Love and Recovering with Self-Esteem
Addiction to love is more common amongst women, and typically rooted in growing up in a home environment with less nurturing and warmth than the child needed. This leads into a pattern of recreating the chaos or “lack of” by trying to control situations, the love, or how one is treated by their mate. Low…
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The Art of Hastening Slowly
The Art of Hastening Slowly
Are you finding yourself stressed around every turn and finding impatience with people and tasks in daily life? You don’t have to give up multi-tasking to observe patience in short increments to feel relief.
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Does Attitude Determine Altitude?
Does Attitude Determine Altitude?
Self-esteem and the investment in oneself to acknowledge that is a powerful component to helping people accomplish the altitude they want in life.
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As a trauma survivor, what can I expect in therapy with Leslie Tourish?
As a trauma survivor, what can I expect in therapy with Leslie Tourish?
Trauma can be paralyzing, lead to reckless behaviors, and even throw you into a depressive state. In therapy, we’ll spend some time getting to know each other and then put our focus into achieving your goals towards a happier, more fulfilled, and less traumatized life. Be prepared, hard work will be involved, but the payoff…
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Demystifying Major Depressive Disorder – You’re Not Alone
Demystifying Major Depressive Disorder – You’re Not Alone
“Sorrow makes us all children again,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. Anyone who has ever experienced the ravages of sever depression understands exactly what that statement means. when a person is in the throes of a clinical major depression, few words can adequately explain the turbulent darkness in which the person travels…alone.
Leslie Tourish LPC 