Do You Ever Feel Stuck In Your Life?

Do You Ever Feel Stuck In Your Life?

Do You Ever Feel Stuck in Your Life? By Joree Rose, LMFT There’s a particular kind of discomfort that’s hard to name and harder to explain to people who aren’t feeling it. It’s not crisis. Nothing is dramatically wrong. You’re functioning...
Send Love To Everyone This Valentine’s Day

Send Love To Everyone This Valentine’s Day

Send Love to Everyone This Valentine’s Day — Including Yourself By Joree Rose, LMFT Valentine’s Day has a way of making people feel things they didn’t expect. For some it’s warmth and connection — a reason to express love that might not get...

How Do I Let My Sh*t Go??

How Do I Let My Sh*t Go? By Joree Rose, LMFT If you’ve ever said those words — or at least thought them — you’re not alone. Letting go is one of the most universally wanted and universally difficult things we ask of ourselves. We know we should let go of...

Gratitude is More Than Just A Feel-Good Sort of Thing

Gratitude is More Than Just a Feel-Good Sort of Thing By Joree Rose, LMFT Gratitude has gotten a bit of a reputation as soft self-help advice — the kind of thing well-meaning people suggest when they don’t know what else to say. Count your blessings. Look on the...

Be Your Own Best Friend: The Art of Self-Compassion

Be Your Own Best Friend: The Practice of Self-Compassion By Joree Rose, LMFT Think about how you talk to your best friend when she’s struggling. When she makes a mistake, falls short of a goal, or is going through something hard — what do you say to her? How do...

You Need An Attitude…An Attitude of Gratitude!

You Need an Attitude of Gratitude — Here’s How to Actually Build One By Joree Rose, LMFT Gratitude gets a lot of airtime. Gratitude journals, gratitude lists, gratitude apps — it’s everywhere. And yet for something so widely recommended, it’s...

How To Build a Meditation Practice That Sticks

How to Build a Meditation Practice That Actually Sticks By Joree Rose, LMFT I’ve been teaching mindfulness and meditation for years, and the question I hear most often isn’t about technique. It’s some version of: I know I should meditate, but I can...

The Light in the Dark

The Light in the Dark: Finding Your Way Through Difficult Seasons By Joree Rose, LMFT There are seasons in life that are simply dark. Not metaphorically dark — genuinely, persistently, disorienting dark. Seasons where the familiar markers of how you usually navigate...

Just Be There…It’s Almost Enough

Just Be There…it’s almost enough!  Wouldn’t it be so much easier if there was a direct go-to manual for how to handle every kind of parenting situation?? I mean, I suppose you can do a Google search, and you’ll instantly reveal lots of solutions to your present issue,...

The Most Constant Thing is…Change!

The Most Constant Thing is Change — and How to Make Peace With It By Joree Rose, LMFT We know, intellectually, that change is constant. The seasons change, children grow, relationships evolve, careers shift, the body ages. Nothing stays the same — not for long, and...
How Mindfulness Helps You Manage Difficult Emotions

How Mindfulness Helps You Manage Difficult Emotions

How Mindfulness Helps You Manage Difficult Emotions By Joree Rose, LMFT Difficult emotions are not the problem. The way we relate to them usually is. Most of us learned early on that certain emotions weren’t welcome — that anger was dangerous, sadness was...

Don’t Change That Radio Station!

Don’t Change That Radio Station: Working With Your Inner Emotional Landscape By Joree Rose, LMFT Imagine your emotional life as a radio. Dozens of stations are available at any given moment — anxiety, contentment, irritability, warmth, grief, joy, restlessness,...

Parenting Doesn’t Come With a Rule Book

Raise Your Hand if You Wish Parenting Came With a Rule Book By Joree Rose, LMFT If parenting came with a rule book, I’m pretty sure every parent I’ve ever worked with — and I include myself in this — would have read the entire thing cover to cover before...

How Can I Manage My Stress?

How Can I Manage My Stress? Practical Tools That Actually Work By Joree Rose, LMFT Stress is one of those things almost everyone is experiencing and almost no one feels like they’re managing well. We know it’s affecting our health, our relationships, our...

Your Presence Is Your Present

Give Your Presence as Your Present: The Most Meaningful Gift You Can Offer By Joree Rose, LMFT In a season that tends to center on giving and receiving, I want to make a case for the gift that costs nothing and means more than almost anything else you could offer the...

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