By Joree Rose, LMFT & Dr. John Schinnerer Have you ever found yourself constantly putting everyone else’s needs ahead of your own? Saying yes when you want to say no? Avoiding conflict to keep the peace—even if that peace comes at your own expense? If so, you’re...
My guess is that something in your life just isn’t flowing the way you’d like it to be. Maybe you’re feeling stuck, unfulfilled, unhappy, or maybe you’re just not where you want to be in your life. You just don’t know how to get out of a cycle...
We are emotional beings; despite the degree to which you acknowledge your emotions, you still feel them, and they impact you. Some of us are more skilled in being able to name them, feel them without fear of feeling, and even know what to do to help us through the...
One of my taglines about mindfulness is that “it’s easier said than done.” I think it applies to almost all aspects of cultivating and maintaining a mindfulness practice. Well it also applies to almost all things in life period. But here’s the thing about...
Parenting is always hard, but parenting during Covid has brought some new challenges. Covid, sheltering-in-place, and kids being out of school has hit us all in different ways. For some it’s brought great suffering, both physical, mental and emotional. For others,...
May is Mental Health Awareness month, and what better time to bring awareness, and compassion, to our collective mental health. Typically, it can easy for someone to make lots of assumptions about another person’s experience of depression or anxiety. Let’s consider...
Relationships are hard Let me say that again. Relationships are so damn hard. And they are even harder during a pandemic! Everything that was under a flashlight of awareness is now under a floodlight of awareness. There is no hiding from what’s been seeping under the...
Regardless of your family history, or your predisposition to depression, feeling depressed is something that I think we can all related to right now going through this pandemic. Depression is not just being in a bad mood or being sad or unmotivated. At the root of...
***I’m sharing this post to be authentic…life is not always the perfect posed pictures on FB*** (Originally posted on FB on June 24, 2019) I’ve just started week 3, of a 4-week European journey…Though I felt fine in Zurich and Rome, a cough I’d had for a...
The first I did a heart-opener, I burst into tears. I was at Esalen, which is a spiritual retreat center in Big Sur, and it literally is, hands-down, my most favorite place on earth. Nestled into an expansive property overlooking picturesque cliffs of the Pacific...
Parent with Greater Awareness and CompassionFriday November 9th, 2018 1:00 PM-5:00 PMOak Hill Park Community Center – 3005 Stone Valley Road, DanvillePlease RSVP by Mar. 16th Questions? Contact me at: [email protected] Cost: $149/couple; $99/individual –...
I’ve always known I’d be a good mom. But I also used to have a lot of fears about parenting, like all the unknowns that I couldn’t control. In the beginning I felt unsure of what to do to be most effective and how to always stay calm. There were definitely some...
So, I’m guess we all share the same problem – that is the loud voice inside your head that tells you mean things, has a harsh tone of voice, criticizes you and treats you worse than your own worst enemy. Can you relate? Do you know what I’m talking about? Yup -it’s...
My guess is that there have been times (or are currently) when you felt completely overwhelmed by what is going on in your life, and it feels almost too big to even begin to take action on how to get out of it and move forward. I’ve been there too, and I can relate to...
My Everyday Mindfulness I took my first mindfulness class a few years ago. Truth be told, I knew nothing about mindfulness when I signed up. Though serendipity led me to attend a 6-week introduction class, I was unaware that I was being cosmically led down a path that...
Our lives are so busy and we attempt to do it all! We are constantly in a juggling act between school, homework, jobs, family, friends, relationships, exercise, and personal time. Sometimes we are successful in getting through many items on our to-do list, however,...
What are you holding on to, that is no longer serving you, but you aren’t able to let go of? It is so easy to get stuck in habits and patterns that keep you held to the past, mistakes, shame, old relationships, or stories that no longer apply. There are many reasons...
Have you ever been so excited to give someone a gift, that you just couldn’t wait for the occasion to arrive? Isn’t it sometimes even a better feeling than when you receive something? I know this happens to me. When I find that perfect something for a person I love, I...
There are numerous benefits to beginning and maintaining a gratitude practice. Even though it can feel like gratitude is just “feel-good” sort of thing, it actually has many proven benefits that can have lasting effects on not only your mood, but your overall health!...
Let me ask you this…Have you ever had a time where you were struggling about something, and you kept playing the situation over and over in your head? Ask yourself: what is the tone of voice of your inner-self? Is it kind? Caring? Comforting? Encouraging? Generally,...
How To Use Attachment Theory to Create Safety and Open the Door to Healing You Want to Feel Closer. He Just Wants to Avoid Feeling Attacked. If you’ve brought up couples therapy and were met with silence, defensiveness, or a quick stonewalling, you’re not alone....
To The Other Half Of My Soul, I’ve written and rewritten this more times than I can count. Every attempt comes with a deep panic—a fear of being too much, too emotional, too needy, for that is etched in my DNA. Yet staying on the surface isn’t enough either. And...
A Love Letter from an Avoidantly Attached Man: Breaking Through the Barriers of Insecure Attachment By Dr. John Schinnerer | LoveIsntEnough.net — My Dearest Love, There are things I should have said long ago—words that remained unspoken, buried in the quiet...
Ever feel utterly fried, like your whole system just slammed into “out of order”? That’s burnout—and it’s way more than “I’m tired.” It’s a full‑on shutdown: brain, body, and spirit all screaming “Enough!” after relentless, chronic stress (looking at you, crushing...
Top 10 Podcasts for Mastering Love & Relationship in 2025 (Without Losing Your Cool!) Let’s be honest: love is one of the most beautiful and rewarding parts of being human—and also one of the most challenging. It can be joyful, deeply fulfilling, confusing,...
Joree Rose, LMFT & Dr. John Schinnerer LoveIsntEnough.net | JoreeRose.com | GuideToSelf.com | MindfulnessAndTherapyCenter.com | TheEvolvedCaveman.com Have you ever been in a relationship where the connection felt magnetic, even electric—but also incredibly...
By Joree Rose, LMFT & Dr. John Schinnerer In this three-part series, we’ve been peeling back the layers of people pleasing—a pattern that so many of us learned as a survival strategy, especially in relationships where love felt conditional. If you’ve been...
By Joree Rose, LMFT and Dr. John Schinnerer In Part 1 of this series, we explored the first two pillars of people pleasing: boundary struggles and excessive guilt. (If you missed it, [catch up here]). Today, we’re diving into two more core challenges that keep people...
Have you ever made a new year’s resolution that you were really excited about? If you have, then you are one of millions of people who have done the same…but be honest with yourself – did you stick to it? Well, no shame or judgement because an enormous amount of...
Remember getting ready for the first day of school? Shopping for new clothes, getting the backpack all ready, picking out a new lunch bag, and of course have fun buying and organizing new school supplies. (New school supplies are the best, aren’t they??) Every...
With the right mindset you can look for the benefits that can come from the coronavirus. Just as a rainbow can only be seen after the storm, there can be silver linings to our challenges right now…if you look for them! So at this time, we have an opportunity to...
After the 2016 election, in addition to having an increase of clients coming in reporting “election anxiety” or “political anxiety”, I also remember seeing a lot of articles pop up in my social media addressing the question of, “How am I going...
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