Originally posted on Jamieschmidtlpc.com/blog February 19, 2019. Ah, I don’t know how I missed this one on my V-day series this year!!! So here it is a week late. Still totally valid 😊 As an empath and emotionally sensitive individual, I thought I would share some reflections on love 💗 and romantic relationships in honorContinue reading “A Highly Sensitive Person’s Guide to Love & Dating”
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When Love Doesn’t Fit the Facts: Part II Opposite Action
Originally posted February 7, 2019 jamieschmidtlpc.com/blog So what do you do when love does not fit the facts? When you realize the love you feel towards a person or relationship is not actually in your best interest? Of course DBT has a skill for that as well! Opposite action is rooted in the awareness that thereContinue reading “When Love Doesn’t Fit the Facts: Part II Opposite Action”
When Love Doesn’t Fit the Facts: Part I
Originally posted February 5, 2019 on http://www.jamieschmidtlpc.com/blogI started doing some website maintenance today & realized I wrote this exactly a year ago. Whoo life sure is cyclical! February is upon us. With Valentine’s Day just a little more than a week a way, I thought I would do a short series of posts about loveContinue reading “When Love Doesn’t Fit the Facts: Part I”
Letting Go of Toxic Love Schemas
A common byproduct of growing up in a toxic environment, is that you approach life with all these assumptions about people and relationships that are just flat out wrong. As children we are constantly taking in data from our lives and using it to build schemas. These schemas are basically blueprints – step by step instructionsContinue reading “Letting Go of Toxic Love Schemas”
DBT with Jamie 