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Nurturing Mental Health: A Counselor’s Guide to Self-Care || By Deanna Edwards, ACP Intern at People House
As a counselor, I have the privilege of supporting individuals through their personal journeys toward better mental health. Today, I want to emphasize the importance of self-care—an essential practice not only for my clients but for everyone seeking emotional well-being. Let’s delve into what self-care means, why it’s crucial, and practical strategies you can start…
Read MoreBelief Inventory || By Chardin Bersto MA
In the last blog I asked you to do a “Belief inventory”. This is the foundation of how things were communicated to you in those early vulnerable days of your life. In the words of Jon Anderson of Yes “All senses open to discovery”. So, not just the words but the tone used, the intention…
Read MoreFortunate Times || By Beth Hinnen, Certified Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher
“May you live in fortunate times.” As I went through Yoga teacher training, I heard lots of different aphorisms and sayings, attributed to this and that culture, or this or that spiritual teaching. With the world on fire this year, what with multiple wars, economic chaos, political strife, assassination attempts, this saying keeps coming back…
Read MoreReservations for Three? Some Quick Thoughts on Expanding Your Horizons || By Rick Garcia, Certified Sex/Cannabis Coach, LMT
Have you ever found your mind wandering to what it would be like to be part of a threesome? Have you ever been asked to participate in one? If so, you know that adding a third person into your sexual (or romantic) relationship can bring up a lot of emotions and questions. Whether you’ve been…
Read MoreSummer: The Silent Cry of the Overadulting Parent || By Annabelle Denmark LPCC
As the school year winds down and summer stretches ahead, many parents feel a mix of excitement and trepidation. While summer promises family vacations, long days at the pool, and a break from the rigid school schedule, it also brings a host of challenges that can lead to parental burnout. For working parents, balancing jobs,…
Read MoreMen’s Mental Health Month: How to better understand and support the men in our lives || By Kevin Culver LPCC
June is Men’s Mental Health Month, which seeks to bring awareness to the issues men experience and reduce stigma around men seeking help. As a therapist that works primarily with men, I acknowledge the importance of advocating for men’s mental health. As such, I want to utilize this blog post to broadly summarize the issues…
Read MoreExcavating Shame || By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA
Shame. Common to the human experience, we’ve all experienced it, at times so excruciatingly painful that we desperately seek a hole to fall into, the proverbial wish for the ground to open up beneath our feet so that we can hide. Shame resilience depends on being able to move through shame experiences with self-compassion (after…
Read MoreOrient Your Being in the Direction of YES || By Catherine Dockery MA, Conscious Aging Facilitator
Whatever hard thing we’re facing, we have a choice to give up or not. But even if we give up, all is not lost because we can say YES in the darkness, even as it envelops us and pulls us down. Do not fear the darknessThe darkness is your friendIt has always been with youAnd…
Read MoreSo, Now What: Further Intimations on the Polyvagal System || By Chardin Bersto MA
Having sketched out the belief relationship to the polyvagal system we can begin to parse out how our body is responding to what we perceive our environment is presenting to us. A simple map is presented through ancient systems of the East, Chi Kung and Yoga. The Vagus Nerve wanders down through the center of…
Read MoreOn Growing Up || By Beth Hinnen, Certified Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher
How many times have you heard, “oh, just grow up?” Maybe it was a long time ago, and maybe it was yesterday. On the outside, we might rebel and resent the idea of growing up which is often equated with growing old. However, inside, it’s a different story. I project wildly that no one wants…
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