Working Through Shame

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Why Therapists Can Be Great Business Owners

Hannah Rose LCPC on November 12, 2025

Therapists are often told they are too empathetic to run a business. Here’s how empathy, integrity, and humanity can become your greatest strengths in leadership.

Therapists are often told they are too empathetic to run a business. Here’s how empathy, integrity, and humanity can become your greatest strengths in leadership.

Fear
Why You Haven't Started Your Private Practice

Hannah Rose LCPC on November 6, 2025

Many therapists dream of private practice but feel stuck. Explore the fears, myths, and quiet barriers that keep so many from taking the leap.

Many therapists dream of private practice but feel stuck. Explore the fears, myths, and quiet barriers that keep so many from taking the leap.

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When We Feel Lonely Even When We Are Not Alone

Hannah Rose LCPC on November 3, 2025

You can be surrounded by people and still feel invisible. Emotional loneliness takes root when we hide the truth of who we are. Connection begins when we let ourselves be seen.

You can be surrounded by people and still feel invisible. Emotional loneliness takes root when we hide the truth of who we are. Connection begins when we let ourselves be seen.

Loneliness
5 Things to Remember When You Feel Lonely

Hannah Rose LCPC on October 26, 2025

Feeling lonely is part of being human. Here are five simple ways to understand loneliness as a signal for connection and to take small steps toward feeling seen again.

Feeling lonely is part of being human. Here are five simple ways to understand loneliness as a signal for connection and to take small steps toward feeling seen again.

Shame
6 Things to Know About Shame (and What to Do About It)

Hannah Rose LCPC on October 25, 2025

Shame is a universal human emotion that can quietly shape how we see ourselves. This is where it comes from and what you can do to begin healing.

Shame is a universal human emotion that can quietly shape how we see ourselves. This is where it comes from and what you can do to begin healing.

Anxiety
Walking Through Anxiety

Hannah Rose LCPC on October 23, 2025

Personal Perspective: I thought I understood anxiety—until I lived it in front of millions on the TV show "Survivor." Here's what I learned about navigating anxiety when life feels overwhelming.

Personal Perspective: I thought I understood anxiety—until I lived it in front of millions on the TV show "Survivor." Here's what I learned about navigating anxiety when life feels overwhelming.

Relationships
How to Start Loving Yourself Now

Hannah Rose LCPC on September 27, 2019

What is blocking you from self-love? If you don't take a sledgehammer to those blocks, you will never be able to accept love from others, let alone yourself. The work starts now.

What is blocking you from self-love? If you don't take a sledgehammer to those blocks, you will never be able to accept love from others, let alone yourself. The work starts now.

Fear
Dealing with Fear and Pain

Hannah Rose LCPC on September 22, 2019

I have lived so much of my life wearing different masks: people pleasing, not setting boundaries, and internalizing everyone else’s truth as my own.

I have lived so much of my life wearing different masks: people pleasing, not setting boundaries, and internalizing everyone else’s truth as my own.

Empathy
Empathy Versus Sympathy

Hannah Rose LCPC on September 20, 2019

If someone shares something incredibly painful to you, the urge to "silver line" their experience may be visceral. But is this always helpful?

If someone shares something incredibly painful to you, the urge to "silver line" their experience may be visceral. But is this always helpful?

Codependency
How to Stop Being So Codependent

Hannah Rose LCPC on August 20, 2019

Why don’t we talk about how many of us would rather settle for mediocre relationships because that beats the potential of being alone?

Why don’t we talk about how many of us would rather settle for mediocre relationships because that beats the potential of being alone?

Forgiveness
How to Forgive Yourself

Hannah Rose LCPC on August 15, 2019

Self-forgiveness begins and ends internally. Even if we may never be fully forgiven by others, that does not mean that we cannot find inner peace by forgiving ourselves.

Self-forgiveness begins and ends internally. Even if we may never be fully forgiven by others, that does not mean that we cannot find inner peace by forgiving ourselves.

Friends
Why Do We Minimize Our Emotions?

Hannah Rose LCPC on August 10, 2019

Whether or not someone is going through something we deem to be objectively "worse" than we are, pain is pain. We need to stop minimizing our emotional experience.

Whether or not someone is going through something we deem to be objectively "worse" than we are, pain is pain. We need to stop minimizing our emotional experience.

Grief
Time Does Not Heal All Wounds

Hannah Rose LCPC on July 31, 2019

Unless we are truly willing to process our deeply rooted core irrational beliefs, our emotional pain, and our grief, time doesn't do a thing.

Unless we are truly willing to process our deeply rooted core irrational beliefs, our emotional pain, and our grief, time doesn't do a thing.

Fear
Walking Through Fear and Discomfort

Hannah Rose LCPC on July 29, 2019

We need to walk through the discomfort of uncertainty and vulnerability, into the world of authenticity and wholeness.

We need to walk through the discomfort of uncertainty and vulnerability, into the world of authenticity and wholeness.

Relationships
10 Steps to Self-Love

Hannah Rose LCPC on July 17, 2019

Self-love begins and ends internally—it cannot be contingent on how others feel about us, what they think about us, or what they say about us.

Self-love begins and ends internally—it cannot be contingent on how others feel about us, what they think about us, or what they say about us.

Grief
How to Show Up for Grief

Hannah Rose LCPC on July 16, 2019

Part 2: We can’t minimize our grief because someone “has it worse.” Someone may always have it worse.

Part 2: We can’t minimize our grief because someone “has it worse.” Someone may always have it worse.

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