Johanna Courtleigh

Seven Strategies for Managing Everyday Stressors by Johanna Courtleigh, MA, LPC, CHT

Life is challenging. We all know that. What we don’t often know is how to manage our reactions to everyday stressors. And, in general, it is those reactions that tend to make things feel bigger and harder, or smaller and more manageable. Here are a fe... Read >

Managing Emotion Helping Yourself in Times of Stress by Johanna Courtleigh, MA, LPC

If your upbringing was anything like mine, you probably grew up in a family where strong feelings weren’t too well-tolerated. I was told to ‘rise above’ when I was unhappy, and to ‘simmer down’ when I was having too much fun. I came to learn that in the... Read >

Narrating the Present—Being in the Now

Sometimes we get lost.  In the swirl and whirl of our thoughts.  In the energy of our emotions.  So lost, we can find ourselves angry, hurt, terrified, bewildered, or worried and out of time, in a memory we React to as if it were real in this very moment,... Read >

Bringing In Baby— Using HypnoFertility to Help You to Get and Stay Pregnant!

Your relationship with your child begins even before conception. Yet getting pregnant is not always as easy as we might hope. Thus, it is often difficult to sustain a state of hope and positive expectancy when you are ‘trying’. There are many delicat... Read >

Being In Love Now

Most of us have been taught that love is a commodity. Something someone either has for us or not. Something that can either be given or taken away, won or lost. Thus, we become dependent on an ‘other' to make us feel happy and secure. But any depe... Read >