Dec 6, 2019 | Cedar Tree Blog, Matthew Hanlon
They’re here again……The holidays. Depending on your past experience, that can inspire in you warm and nostalgic feelings of family traditions and close connection, or conversely feelings of dread, and anxiety; reminders of losses and past pain one would rather...
Aug 1, 2019 | Cedar Tree Blog, Matthew Hanlon, Men's Issues
I want to talk briefly about the experience of many men that I see in therapy. Namely, that they often feel that they are only able to access one of two states of being: they can be okay, or they’re angry. Some men will go so far as to say, those are the two emotional...
Aug 1, 2019 | Cedar Tree Blog, Matthew Hanlon
Grief wants to move. Did you know that? Grief has this course that can’t really be anticipated or predicted, except that it desires to take you on a journey; to move you. So many of the clients we see in counseling are suffering from what we call unresolved grief, and...
Dec 13, 2018 | Matthew Hanlon, Men's Issues, Women's Issues
In the last couple decades, with the new normal of in-home computers, the internet, and smartphones in the hands of most of the population, we have come to experience speed and instantaneousness in ways that were previously unfathomable. Our lives have changed so...
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Dec 7, 2018 | Cedar Tree Blog, Matthew Hanlon
Emotions can be dominant at times. So dominant, that they drive us to react in ways we later wish we hadn’t. Today I’d like to talk to you about regulating the intensity of your own emotions. Our emotions are fundamental in helping us understand our experience of the...
Jul 23, 2018 | Cedar Tree Blog, Marriage, Matthew Hanlon
Marriage would be so much easier without conflict, wouldn’t it? Unfortunately, the reality is that whenever we live in close proximity to another person, the opportunity for conflict will eventually come our way. Today I’d like to introduce you to a tool that can help...