Harper Therapy, Lutz, FL.

08/28/2026

Friday Funny!

08/26/2026

Shamon and I recently had the opportunity to attend a Kintsugi workshop. Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese art of putting broken pieces of pottery back together with gold. Surprisingly, the put-back-together piece ends up being stronger than the original piece. This is a metaphor that I use often with couples who come in for affair recovery, so I was eager to actually EXPERIENCE it.

Let’s just say that it’s not what I thought it would be.

Granted, the true process of Kintsugi is not smashing a ceramic bowl with a hammer and then using super glue and gold paint to put it back together again that we used in the workshop. As other workshop participants gently tapped their bowls multiple times in an attempt to break it, I only needed one solid WHACK before I saw the towel that my bowl was wrapped in deflate as the pieces crumbled. I quickly started to wonder how in the world I would fit the pieces back together again....

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08/25/2026

Hello, Friends!
Time for Toby+Hobbes Tuesday, a chance for us to check in for ourselves on our self-care and play practices. These boys are a good reminder for me to rest when I need to, and of the importance of playfulness in my life (in fact, having them around makes me more playful)!
What is your favorite self care or play practice for the week??

08/25/2026

Couples Therapy that Gets to the Heart of Your Relationship

We help you to get out of your you-me stances of dysfunctional relationship patterns, and reconnect to the “us” of being on the same team and fighting FOR your relationship instead of with each other.

08/19/2026

Sometimes, the impact of the trauma that we’ve survived shows up in some strange places. Like Burnout. On a scale from 0-10, “I can handle it” to “I can’t handle it”, the toll that the past two years had taken on you is maybe a 5 or 6. As in “There’s nothing I can’t handle.”

Sure, you’ve been through hard things in your life. But you got through them. You learned to put your head down and push through. Grit your teeth and work harder at it. When the going gets hard, you go into beast mode.

Until recently. And now it’s getting harder and harder to kick into overdrive. To say that you’re tired is the understatement of the century. Not that you’d admit it out loud. You just drink more coffee, work out harder, try yet another sleep aid. Surely the solution is right around the corner....

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https://www.harpertherapy.com/blog/the-burnout-of-trauma

08/12/2026

You’ve felt anxious for as long as you can remember. Ready to crawl out of your skin. Irritable. Your mind running on an endless hamster wheel has led to way too many sleepless nights and difficulty functioning the next day. Your muscles are so tense all of the time that you tend to be exhausted pretty much always. And it’s hard for you to focus because of the racing thoughts and the way you have to pay attention to everything around you. Is it any wonder that you sometimes “self medicate” with an extra glass of wine, or sleeping pill, or whatever it may be so that you can turn things off in your mind and body for a while?

You haven’t always called these feelings “anxiety”, but when you finally heard that word, you grabbed onto it because it helped you to at least make a little sense of what was happening to you. Only when you talk to friends about their anxiety, it’s like comparing apples to oranges. Both are fruits, but not much else is the same. If your friends have anxiety, then theirs must be the “light” version and yours is anxiety on steroids....

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