June is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. This month’s awareness impacts me not just as a mental health professional, but personally. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia. It is a progressive disease beginning with mild...

May is Mental Health month and it is important to understand that millions of Americans live daily with the struggles of mental illness. As a marriage and family therapist I have witnessed the affects mental illness can have on loved ones. It is...

Endometriosis is a physical experience that has life and relational impact. Endometriosis is an often-painful disorder in which tissue similar to the tissue that normally lines the inside of a women’s uterus, the endometrium, grows outside your...

National “Wear Red” Day for women’s heart health (Feb. 7) “Be a key factor in your own equation of life!” Toddism 2020 © It is a Matter of the Heart!   An Important Message for Women:  Heart Disease is...

  During my training, I was taught "everyone owns their own orgasm!" This concept is true not just sexually but relationally as well. When it comes to the success of a relationship and intimacy, we each have the responsibility of...

In this time and season, societal rules and protocols are ever-changing. What's right, and what's wrong varies by day. Who are they/them of the world that tells us what the right structure is for our lives? Why should we even listen to them?...

To fight or not to fight? That should not be the question. The real question should be "how do we fight fair in our relationships?" Often I share with clients just because couples fight and argue with one another doesn't mean that they...