Tell me about your counseling style? I have a down to earth, relaxed style and am respectful of the personal nature of an individual’s journey. I believe in the importance of a professional, safe, non-judgmental relationship where a client can feel heard, empowered and free to seek answers and/or guidance toward their identified goals. Can […]
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I had some pain in my shoulder last summer that I just couldn’t seem to get rid of. Nothing too terrible, but it kept me from doing some things I wanted to do – like swimming or picking up my kids. My schedule (and false hope that it would get better on its own) kept
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What is mental health anyway? We hear the term mental health often but what does it mean? According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services “Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to
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Feel like you are drowning? Can’t quite get ahead in your day? Week? Month? That feeling can come, of course, from the very real fact that we have too many critical or important things going on that we feel we need to attend to. There are a few things to try to keep in mind.
Half Empty -or- Why We Focus On What Doesn’t Work Everything keeps on breaking! Nothing works likes it’s supposed to. I spoke with one angry and exasperated soul who was having trouble controlling his temper. I observed that our attention is drawn to that which does not work. We never notice when we get in our
I was brought to thinking about expectations after I was on a flight back home from a quick trip to California for a funeral. End of life always brings a certain amount of self-reflection about one’s place in life and what may (or may not) lie ahead. In the plane on the way home, one
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“I’m going to help you paint that barn,” my dad said. I was living on a turn of the century farm house with a sizeable barn that was in desperate need of a paint job. “I don’t want to paint that barn,” was my honest reply. I had enough on my plate with work and
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