by Jessica Schmoll, LPC, CPCS | Jul 19, 2024 | Mental Health
Is your inner voice really even…you? We’re not born hating ourselves. We don’t start out as kids feeling unworthy, or incapable. In fact, as kids, we feel pretty certain that while wearing our superhero capes from last October’s Halloween party, we can jump off of...
by Jessica Schmoll, LPC, CPCS | Apr 8, 2024 | Mental Health
You meet someone new…what is the first question you tend to ask? Is it -- “What do you do?” Me, too. For many of us, work has been a defining part of our identity for as long as well, we’ve been working. It’s been a quick way to build ourselves up or sadly,...
by Jessica Schmoll, LPC, CPCS | Oct 10, 2023 | Mental Health
What IS Imposter Syndrome? “Imposter syndrome” can be described as a painful, subjective, psychological experience of viewing oneself as a fraud --- full of self-doubt. This experience usually occurs despite clear successes and accomplishments – usually in the world...
by Jessica Schmoll, LPC, CPCS | May 22, 2023 | Mental Health
Yeah, that’s right. Give me a break! No, not YOU per se, but as a community – a society, we try so hard to hold it all together. Sometimes we call it “keeping the balls up in the air.” That’s hard, especially when we are simultaneously comparing ourselves to younger,...
