In recent months, I had been chatting with a good friend of mine and we talked about crying and what the tears actually mean. I recently had a very intelligent mature aged client come to see me after losing her only son overseas. She was mixed with anger - frustration - fear - loneliness - grief. During our session, almost on cue, the tears would flow and they were based on each emotion. I explained to my client that tears were a way our body released the emotion many ways in

A very good peer of mine wrote this blog and I want to share it with you all........ "Depression isn’t always about feeling bad, it can be emotional numbness or alexithymia (a difficulty in experiencing, expressing and describing emotional responses in words). It keeps overt depression away. Have you heard of reactive depression before? I hadn’t until recently. It’s in relation to external events or circumstances, a response to major stress such as a break up, death of love