Pitts Davis Counseling Services

Sheryl Boyle, LPC, BSp Consultant, and Pitts Davis, LMFT, Cert. BSp, will host a support group on Wednesday, March 13th at noon (CDT). The purpose of this group is to help support therapists who work with clients who demonstrate dissociative features share their experiences and learn from one another to better work with this population. Sheryl is known for her work with DID clients and recommended by Lisa Larson regularly to help therapists who need to know more about helping this population. Pitts has worked with clients with DID for over 35 years.

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One of the Gottman's favorite rom-coms, When Harry Met Sally, demonstrates the importance of friendship in love. Having been friends for years, Harry and Sally already developed that important foundation of mutual affection, friendship, and trust that is essential for a successful romantic relationship.

A quick lesson about autoimmune diseases. It takes an average of 3 years and 5 doctors for a person to get a proper diagnosis of an autoimmune disease. I just wish more people understood what an autoimmune disease is. It is not a cold or the flu, you will never get better, and even a nap will not help. Just eating a salad and hitting the gym won’t slim your face or get the pounds off. Sleeping 10 hours doesn’t leave you well rested, ever. Last minute changes in plans because that “just got ran over” feeling never makes appointments, just walks in whenever you aren’t ready. Achy joints and bones, dry skin, breaking hair, mood swings, and depression are just the tip of the iceberg. You are also prone to having multiple autoimmune diseases.
The “put together on the outside”, rarely matches the raging battle on the inside.
I am watching the ones who will take the time to read this entire post and react.
Please, in honor of someone who is fighting POTS, MCAD, Sjogren's, Scleroderma, Hashimoto Disease, Hypothyroidism, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Fibromyalgia, Lupus, Sarcoidosis, CVID, RSDS, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hepatitis, Raynauld's Syndrome, Diabetes, Mold Illness, Celiac, Crohn’s, CRPS/RSD, Ulcerative Colitis, Pemphigus, Neuropathy, SPS, MS, PBC, Psoriatic Arthritis, CIDP, Behcet's, Alopecia, MMN And GPA .Copy and paste to your page and reply "DONE" on mine.
Unfortunately, most of us know someone fighting against one or more Autoimmune Diseases. ❤️💙💚🧡💛🩵🤍🩷

Best way of saying this I’ve seen: connect, hold space and just be.

Quote of the Day

Relationship conflict can cause one or both partners to feel overwhelmed, or “flooded.” This physiological arousal sometimes leads to stonewalling, one of Dr. John Gottman’s 4 predictors of relationship instability.
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Certified Gottman Therapist Laura Silverstein, LCSW shares strategies for how to minimize flooding and stonewalling in your relationship: http://bit.ly/3E1C759

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