If there’s one things I’ve learned in the past few years it’s the importance of simple, consistent practices and how far they can bring us. For example, I am not an athletic person, or at least that’s what I always thought. Nevertheless, a few years ago I started walking on a consistent basis, and found that combining this walking with simple portion control of my food led to weight loss – imagine that!

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Jeanne Robertson, Ph. D., LMFT, LPC Director, Center for Counseling and EducationSt Paul’s Episcopal Church, New Orleans LA 70124

Is it your middle name? Your first name? Your last name? All three?

Anxiety is real. It is painful and a growing percent of Americans suffer with anxiety from mild to severe. Many require medication. However, medication alone does not conquer anxiety. Sometimes small changes in thinking, repeated over and over make an immense difference.

How we…

How to Stay Afloat

Jeanne Robertson, Ph. D., LPC, LMFTDirector, St. Paul’s Center for Counseling and Education New Orleans, LA

What is the water that surrounds us? How does it get in? I’m going to risk “rocking the boat” by mixing metaphors. Please stay with me.

Two Kinds of Water:

Two kinds of water make up our external world, rather than our internal, emotional environment. We can compare these two types of water to two types of food. We can broadly divide it into…

Jeanne Robertson, Ph.D, LPC, LMFT
Center for Counseling & Education
St Paul’s Episcopal Church
New Orleans, LA 70124

What’s the difference? Identity. Self-identity and identifying what is happening to you. Are you a cancer patient? Or are you a person, an individual who has cancer? What word comes first in your mind; first in how you think about yourself? Why does it matter?

Research indicates that stress is an important factor in how well the immune system functions which in…

Malignancies of the central nervous systems (brain and spinal cord) occur at every age level of
human life; no age group is spared the possibility of developing a primary or secondary central
nervous system (CNS) malignancy (1).

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