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Regan Hovey, M.S., AMFT, APCC, Newport Beach, CA (2026)

05/18/2021

Much has been written about the importance of telling your story. To say the words would give credence to the parts of a story you may have worked hard to ignore and not process. Consequently you have carried around these exiled parts. To narrate your story might affirm your beautifully particular place in the fabric of all there is, HOWEVER, it might also reveal a place you’ve never been because you’ve dedicated a lifetime of time and energy to fit your square peg into a round hole.

The weight of truth can lend itself to a sense of burden and expectancy that constrains us or a powerful force that propels us through acknowledgement and acceptance. Depending on how it’s wielded, the truth can be YOUR LOCK OR YOUR KEY.

05/18/2021

Much has been written about the importance of telling your story. To say the words would give credence to the parts of a story you may have worked hard to ignore and not process. Consequently you have carried around these exiled parts. To narrate your story might affirm your beautifully particular place in the fabric of all there is, HOWEVER, it might also reveal a place you’ve never been because you’ve dedicated a lifetime of time and energy to fit your square peg into a round hole.

The weight of truth can lend itself to a sense of burden and expectancy that constrains us or a powerful force that propels us through acknowledgement and acceptance. Depending on how it’s wielded, the truth can be YOUR LOCK OR YOUR KEY.

04/23/2021

We all want to feel effective—no matter if it relates to work, school, relationships, parenting etc. However, when what we do undermines a sense of effectiveness it can lead to a feeling of exhaustion, which can compound to result in the experience of burnout. When the value or rationale for doing what you are doing becomes murky, the tendency can be to just do what feels like hard work, without much thought or consideration of the utility.

The resulting curiosity for me becomes about leaning into both your EXPERIENCE and EXPECTATIONS. Asking how am I experiencing this? How is this impacting me? What do I expect from myself? What do I know others expect of me? (Ex. showing up to work or taking your kids to school) What do I *think* others expect from me? (Ex. Perfection, 24/7 availability, constant positivity).

02/10/2021

Chaos can be understood as the lack of affect regulation where things feel unstable or out of control. Rigidity conversely can be understood as an inability to be changed and seeking to assert control over ALL the things.

Life is a paradox that requires us to hold the tension of things that on the surface don't always seem to make sense and find the balance. In Buddhism it’s often referred to as the middle path/way, Jung called it Anima/Animus, DBT says wisemind, Dan Siegel calls it the river of integration. Whatever you want to call it, is often found in the middle of comfort and pain, self-acceptance and change/self-improvement, rigidity and chaos, life and death.

How can you meet yourself in the middle today?

11/01/2020

Come and hang out with Regan Hovey and Renee Lorch of S.A.G.E. Holistic Health and Wellness Center tomorrow afternoon (Sunday, Nov 1st) at 12:30pm (PST) as we chat about EMPATHY. We will go LIVE in our Facebook S.A.G.E. Holistic Group (link in bio).

Stop by if you are curious to learn more about what it means to be an empath, or if you already identify as an HSP. Join us as we discuss the gift of empathy and how we both work with this population to navigate an emotional world and tips on how to avoid burnout.

Regan Hovey, M.S., AMFT, APCC

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