by Dr Aletta | May 13, 2025 | Happiness, Inspiration, Self-Care, Uncategorized, Well-Being
rock/hard place. 5”X5”, watercolor & ink. painted by LVG Aletta When it’s hard to write I don’t write anything which is wrong. I’m learning through developing my visual art, painting, sketching, that the way to be creative is to practice my art... 
by Dr Aletta | Oct 31, 2024 | Good Therapy, Inspiration, Positive Psych, Self-Care
Fifteen years ago I had had enough. I couldn’t take it any more. My life circumstances had changed almost overnight and I had to take matters into my own hands. It was time to get off the insurance panels. The decision to get off insurance panels was not an easy... 
by Dr Aletta | Apr 13, 2024 | Good Therapy, Happiness, Inspiration, Life Matters, Positive Psych, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Well-Being
I’ve recently embraced being an artist. Overall it’s been a mind-blowing journey but, me being me, it doesn’t take long for the path to be filled with rocks covered in anti-affirmation messages like: ‘You failed!’ Or, ‘You call yourself an artist?! Haha!’ Which brings... 
by Dr Aletta | Mar 24, 2024 | Anxiety, Depression, Happiness, Life Matters, Relationships, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Stress, Well-Being
There’s a place where resiliency is stretched so far that we break. Most of us are familiar with the frog in the pot story. The frog in the slowly heating up pot of water adapts to the temperature, making it work. Going from chilly cold to comfy warmth, the frog... 
by Kendal Vaarwerk | Aug 4, 2023 | Anxiety, Depression, Good Therapy, Grief, Mental Health, Self-Care, Stress
Think about the veteran returning from war, the horrific and overwhelming experiences they had. Experiences where their autonomic nervous system (fight-or-flight) was propelling them to escape, but they could not. This often causes a dissociation from reality, the... 
by Dr Aletta | Jul 22, 2023 | Adulting, Life Matters, Self-Care, Stress
How To Handle Things When Everything Is Hard On the edge of Bryant Park on 42nd Street, behind the Fifth Avenue New York City Library with the resting lions in front, there’s a restaurant. An assistant editor from Glamour and I walked over from her office in the...
