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When Mother’s Day is Hard, There is Hope

May 4, 2024Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Social Media, Therapy Tips, Traumachildren, cluff counseling, counseling, counselor, daughter, death, family, father, friends, grief, grieving, happiness, holiday, husband, infant, Infertility, joy, life, loss, love, mama, melissa cluff, MIL, mom, mother, mother-in-law, Mother’s Day, mothers, potential, progress, relationships, strained relationship, therapist, therapy, trial, wife, year

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” ~ Cheryl Lacey Donovan The other day, I got an email from a major corporation saying that Mother’s Day is upon us and they recognize it may be triggering for some so they included an option to mute their […]

5 Ways You’re Not Facing Your Grief

Oct 27, 2023Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Therapy Tips, Traumacluff counseling, communication, counseling, counselor, emotional health, family, friends, grief, grieving, healing, health, heart, hurt, loss, love, melissa cluff, pain, relationship, relationships, sadness, self-care, self-love, self-work, sorrow, stigma, therapist, therapy, therapy work

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” ~ E.A. Bucchianeri One day life is great, things are normal, the sun is shining and your laughter comes freely. Then, not a split second later, you are faced with a loss so deep you […]

MENtal Health: How are the Men in Your Life Doing?

Oct 13, 2023Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Therapy Tipsaddiction, awareness, behavior, boyfriend, breaking the cycle, breaking the stigma, communication, community, counseling, counselor, cycle, family, friend, help, honesty, husband, love, melissa cluff, men, Men’s mental health, mental health, recovery, relationship, relationships, self-harm, stigma, suicide, support, therapist, therapy

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “Men suffer a lot behind the mask of manliness.” —Vineet Aggarwal Last week I went out for TexMex with my closest friends. While we enjoyed our chips and salsa, everyone went around the table giving little updates about themselves and their families. When we got to my newlywed friend she told us […]

We All Need People; Who Are Yours?

Sep 22, 2023Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Therapy TipsBrene Brown, counseling, counselor, Cristina Yang, family, friends, friendship, Grey’s Anatomy, happy, love, melissa cluff, Meredith Grey, my person, person, post it, power of vulnerability, relationships, respect, therapist, therapy, trust, vulnerability

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.” ~~Anton Chekhov There is a scene that has been immortalized from “Grey’s Anatomy”–do you know which one I am referring to? Two friends are seated at a bar when Cristina matter-of-factly tells Meredith that she put her name down as an […]

Self-Harm: More than Just Cutting

Feb 24, 2023Addiction, Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Therapy Tips, Traumaacceptance, attention, awareness, cluff counseling, coping skills, counseling, counselor, crisis, cutting, education, family, friends, harm, help, hotline, hurting, love, melissa cluff, mental health, mental illness, notice, pain, poor coping skills, prevention, self-harm, self-loathing, stay, suicide, therapist, therapy, you matter

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “People say things / meant to rip you in half / but you hold the power to not / turn their words into a knife / and cut yourself.” ― Rupi Kaur Trigger Warning: This post contains explicit descriptions of self-harming behavior and may be triggering to some. Educating my clients has […]

5 Ways You’re Not Facing Your Grief

MENtal Health: How are the Men in Your Life Doing?

We All Need People; Who Are Yours?

Self-Harm: More than Just Cutting

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