Dr. Margie Gayle’s Blog
Welcome! I created this blog to be a positive place to share insight and helpful solutions for common issues. In some blogs, I create a fictional character to help humanize these experiences. These characters are drawn from a combination of the many different psychological dynamics I observe in my work. Any similarity to actual persons is purely coincidental.
How to Deal with Anxiety During a Pandemic: Long Haul Mental Health Strategies
Millennials, or Gen Y, the generation born between 1977 to 1994 and currently 26 to 43 years of age, maybe one of the hardest-hit generations in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. My clients in this age range face myriad challenges: financial uncertainty, aging, and...
Experience Deep Joy: How to Find Lasting Happiness and Joy
Understand Your Emotional Blueprint After a lifetime of conflict with his father, 45-year-old Cal came into therapy to understand and hopefully resolve their relationship. Even though he wanted to change, Cal found himself reacting like a young child as soon as...
How To Help Someone With Depression
Sandra noticed her close friend Abby was not returning text messages or calls. Abby recently canceled a plan with Sandra at the last minute. She’d also stopped playing racquetball at the gym. The one time Sandra and Abby did meet for coffee in the past month, Abby...
Dan’s Search for Energetic Wholeness and Love
Like all the characters I write about, Dan is fictional. I created him to illustrate a common dilemma many high functioning men and women I see in my private Integrative Body Psychotherapy practice have: finding energetic wholeness. Any similarities to a real person...
How to Set Boundaries: For Breathing Room and Space
In my first Boundaries blog “How to Set Boundaries: Connect Inside First”, I ended with Lisa feeling an odd pressure inside to sometimes push her partner, Sean, away. These feelings came as a surprise. Lisa originally came in for therapy longing for more connection...
How to Set Boundaries: Connect Inside First
You have a boundary. We all do. Unlike a fence between neighbors that visually defines a boundary, your boundary is energetic. You feel it when someone stands too close to you and you feel a desire to step away. You can also feel it when someone is too far away and...