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Narcissism and Caregiving: Dancing around the Truth

November 9, 2020

This post explores narcissism and caregiving and how at the core of both is a difficulty with vulnerability and either creating boundaries with caregiving and respecting boundaries with narcissism. Post explores the giving-taking spectrum and how to go about growth from either end of the spectrum.
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Narrative, Relationships

Sexuality: The Messages We Hold Close

October 12, 2020

This post describes the benefits of exploring sexual messages by utilizing a sexual experiences time-line. Additionally, this post offers guidance for exploring sexual experiences and messages and the impact that messages can have on individuals.
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Relationships

Validation and the Walls Before Us

September 29, 2020

This post explores the impact of not receiving validation from those close to us. This post also includes steps to take to increase likeliness of receiving and giving validation.
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Relationships

Heeding Warnings

September 10, 2020

This post explores an individual’s tendency to not heed warnings in relationships and offers tips for seeking healthy and mutual connection.
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Personality States, Relationships

Needing in a Time of Uncertainty

September 3, 2020

This post explores the challenges of coping with COVID or other situations which have a high level of uncertainty. Post encourages individuals to explore their feelings and needs and practice naming them. Additionally, this post questions the American value of self-sufficiency and whether that is helping individuals to ask for help or get their needs…
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Relationships, Schema Concepts

Enmeshment and Boundaries

September 1, 2020

This post explores the Psychological concepts of Enmeshment and Boundaries and how they impact relationships. Post encourages self-reflection and offers tips for overcoming behaviors that reinforce enmeshment.
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Relationships, Schema Concepts

Cognitive Consistency and Schema

August 31, 2020

This post explores the Psychological principles of Cognitive Consistency and Schema and the impact they have on relationships and Mental Health.
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Epijennetics Counseling & Consulting offers a variety of counseling options for adolescents and adults, including individual, couple, and family counseling, as well as consulting services for non-clinical work. It is our belief that mental health counseling should be a holistic approach that doesn’t simply treat mental health symptoms, but assists clients in better understanding their values and priorities, finding meaning, and building a healthy and hopeful future. Counseling sessions are multi-faceted, including an in-depth and strategic approach to understanding the personality, needs, values, and background of each client. Counseling work is focused on repairing harmful beliefs, challenging unhealthy ways of thinking, and improving overall relationship and life satisfaction. Evidenced based treatments such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Schema Therapy are used to address anxiety, depression, ADHD, and a variety of other troubling mental health disorders. See our Services Page for more details about services.

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About the Website

Epijennetics.com was inspired by the science of Epigenetics. Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work, without altering actual DNA itself. This is thought to be the process that is behind transgenerational trauma, or the effects of trauma that are passed down through families. Not only is the impact of traumatic events passed down, but often harmful relationship patterns and belief systems are as well.

Epijennetics, the website, is intended to provide content that is easy to digest but powerfully transformative if applied to ones life. Each blog included is intended to present Psychological concepts that I hope will inspire you to explore the various ways that thought life impacts behavior and feelings. Thoughts are often automatic and unconscious, having been the result of messages received from others or experiences with others. These thoughts not only come from experiences in ones life directly, but also through transgenerational patterns and beliefs. Concepts in blog articles are pulled from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Schema Therapy, Narrative Therapy, as well as other counseling theories.

It is my honest belief that inside of each of us is the capacity to transform our lives through renewed thinking, intentional behavioral change, and new relational experiences. It is my hope that through reading the content presented you can gain new insight into the ways that your thoughts and beliefs have led you down futile roads. I hope that the road ahead presents opportunities for growth and change, and that you can see them as such. I hope that when your thoughts are hindering you, not helping you, that you can back up and think again, hence preventing falling into self-defeating patterns and reactivity.

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Narcissism and Caregiving: Dancing around the Truth

Sexuality: The Messages We Hold Close

Validation and the Walls Before Us

Heeding Warnings

Needing in a Time of Uncertainty

Enmeshment and Boundaries

Cognitive Consistency and Schema