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Coping With Holiday Stress: 5 Real Ways to Find Peace
The holiday season is often painted as a time of pure joy, but for many, it brings a heavy load of expectations, financial pressure, and complicated family dynamics. If you find yourself dreading the festivities rather than enjoying them, you are not alone. Coping with holiday stress is a skill that many of us need…
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Family Conflict Therapist in St. Louis: Setting Healthy Boundaries This Holiday Season
Dreading the holidays because of recurring family arguments? You’re not alone. For many, this season is marked by a unique kind of stress. If you’re searching for a family conflict therapist in St. Louis, it’s often because the pressure to please everyone feels immense, making the art of saying “no” seem impossible. But learning to…
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Attachment Therapy St. Louis: A Path to Healing for Unstable Relationships and BPD Traits
Viewing BPD through attachment theory reveals how early unstable bonds shape emotional patterns. Lotus Rising LLC offers trauma-informed, personalized therapy like DBT and EFT for lasting healing.
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BPD Therapy in St. Louis: Finding Calm with EFT & IFS
Living with the traits of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can feel like navigating a constant, internal storm. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) describes BPD as an illness that can cause intense, unstable moods and relationships. It’s exhausting and isolating. Finding the right BPD therapy in St. Louis can feel just as overwhelming. If…
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Halloween Costume Horoscope
Halloween is a fun time of year. A time to eat candy, carve pumpkins, get spooky, and, best of all be a different person for a day. Like last year, I will be providing you with your Halloween Costume Horoscope. Please know that this is for fun; however, if you feel like I’ve hit the…
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How To Improve Your Self Esteem
Improving your self esteem can feel impossible. It’s a process that takes time and will feel clunky. There is a saying that says ‘get comfortable with being uncomfortable,’ and it fits well when working on improving your self esteem. You are going to feel uncomfortable and it’s okay. Remember in the uncomfortable is where you…
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Self-Care is a Daily Practice
Self-care should be done daily. It’s not something you wait until you’re out of gas to do. Let’s face it, when we’re at the end of our rope we can’t do much of anything or care about anything, much less take care of ourselves. You need to be doing little things that give you a…
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About Me
Hi, my name is Salina Schmidgall and I am a mental health therapist and consultant. I grew up in a small town near Springfield, Illinois and currently reside in St Louis Missouri. While in high school, I attended a vocational program that allowed me to work towards getting a cosmetology license. Two weeks after high…