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Which is More Likely to Help You Live a Longer Life—A Social Relationship or A Gym Membership? 

Believe it or not research shows that having healthy social relationships will impact the length of your life more significantly than a gym membership.  In fact compared to other risk factors, having too few social connections is pretty costly to our health.   Compared to some of the other risk factors the negative impact of social […]

The Triple F-Word: Forced Family Fun 

Yes, most of us are thinking it and I just said it. I can even say it with a great deal of confidence because the number of people that have been sitting on my couch in the last week dreading holiday togetherness is astounding. As you’re reading this, some of you might be deeming me […]

A Simple Solution to an Anxiety Problem 

Let’s face it…every time we turn around it seems like there is something else for us to be anxious about. School shootings, Ebola panic, natural disasters, neighborhood crime, abductions and more. It probably comes as no surprise that recent research shows that as a population, we are the most anxious that we have ever been. […]

Do we treat our significant others differently than we treat the rest of the world? 

Ask anyone that is in an intimate relationship and they‘ll tell you that on more than one occasion, they’ve had a regrettable incident with their partner. Snarky comments, guilt trips that would’ve even made our grandmothers cringe, come backs with a punch and more…we’ve all been there and almost always we feel worse than we […]

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Carol Ann Hamilton Isbell
LMFT, LCSW [she/her]
A Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and one of the founders of Northstar Counseling Center who specializes in:

EMDR, Relationships, Anxiety, Perfectionism
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