Blog | Mental Health | Eric Kruse, LMFT

This is How the Fight or Flight Response Impacts Your Relationships

The fight or flight response is a physiological response that occurs when danger is present. It was essential to our survival in the...

How to Fight Back Against Negative Thoughts

As I sit at my computer listening to Chopin’s famous “Nocturne Op. 9, Nº. 2” to inspire my writing, I think to myself, “No one wants to...

How to Manage Your Anger

Anger is Poison “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” -...

How to Pick a Career

Picking your career path can be an overwhelming. Many people have no idea what they want to do or how to start figuring it out....

How to Treat Your Thoughts as Guesses

It has been estimated that humans have anywhere from 30,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day and that up to 80% of these thoughts can be...

Are You Engaging In Mental Filtering?

What is Mental Filtering? Mental Filtering is when you magnify negative details of your life and filter out the positive details. For...

The Dopamine Deficit Theory of Addiction

There are different types of addicts: (1) Those who are going through a difficult phase in their life who abuse substances as a coping...

Is Mind Reading Negatively Impacting your Relationship?

What it is… Mind Reading is when you assume you know what your partner is thinking or feeling before they express it to you. It’s when...