melanie cooke M.A., Ed.M., LMHC

Why is it so hard to be still? Why we struggle with stillness and mindfulness -- and how to actually practice it!

How to build a holistic relationship with food and your body using the hunger-fullness scale

How to be intentional about the most important moments of your day

What's Your Body Budget?

This week, 'Therapy Begins with T(ea)' steeps on regret and offers a full body check-in to practice accessing our Self energy's curiosity...

Our body's way of physically digesting can teach us a lot about emotional digestion & processing

The importance of cultivating experiences of warmth -- physiologically and psychologically.

The antidote to an anxious & 'busy' mind

The key to regulating your nervous system is balance

This week, 'Therapy Begins with Tea' steeps on the difference between rest & recharge and offers a body based check-in to help you...

Boundaries are key characteristics of secure attachment and they help make vulnerability feel safer

This week, 'Therapy Begins with Tea' steeps on the 'how' of boundaries -- setting, communicating, and enforcing them -- and gives you...

This week, 'Therapy Begins with Tea' steeps on boundaries -- what they are and what they're not -- and offers an exercise to help you...

This week, 'Therapy Begins with Tea' steeps on what anger communicates to us and offers a way to cope with anger using a RAIN exercise....

This week, 'Therapy Begins with Tea' steeps on cognitive defusion, the mindful practice of detaching from our negative thoughts, and...