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BOOK REVIEW: How To Do The Work by Dr. Nicole LePera ll By Michelle LaBorde, MA, LPCC
Spoiler alert! If you haven’t read this book yet, but want to, you might want to skip this post for now. If you’re a fan of @the.holistic.psychologist on social media then you are going to LOVE her new book How To Do The Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past and Create Yourself. I…
Equinox: Meditating on Balance ll By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA.
The March Equinox recently drifted over us, known as the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. The sun hovered over that imaginary line we call the equator, and for a brief time, brought nearly 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night all over the Earth. Our body’s encircling low-level energy—an aura?…
What do you do in Counseling? ll By Lauren Black
About a year ago on a hike with my sister, she asked me, “What do you do in counseling?” As someone who has benefited immensely from twenty years of off and on personal therapy, I have always wanted to be able to explain how it works to my friends and family. Here was an opportunity!…
Presence in Humanness: Connection with Ourselves and Connection with Others ll By Colleen Ladd
I’ve been contemplating the way we run from presence, in all of the ways we have been taught and have so finely crafted for ourselves. Whether it be with work, substances or social media, our dominant Western and white supremacist culture has us valuing and investing energy and time into independence, yet the culture doesn’t…
Love Messages to Our Soul ll By Michele Bailey
This post is for anyone who struggles to feel like they are enough. It is for anyone who has a critical voice inside them that can be harsh, doubting, and sometimes even downright mean. We tell ourselves lies every day, right inside our very own heads. We have grown up telling ourselves lies, and because…
Sleep: Laying the Groundwork for Self & Community Care ll By Marielle Grenade-Willis
Sleep has always been elusive for me, especially since I left home for college in 2010. I always envied those who seemed to be able to sleep easily without any adjustments in their environment. Over the years, I came to understand some of my triggers for not sleeping well: drinking caffeine past 12PM, having difficult…
The Practice of Self-Compassion ll By Stephanie Boulton, MA, LPCC
In my practice I work from a neurobiological perspective. In a nutshell, this means I focus on how a person’s nervous system has learned to regulate and how it has adapted to past events. Neurobiology’s main premise (based on lots of research) is that we are biologically wired in certain ways and being mammals, we…
For the Amicably Uncoupling Couple ll By Sonya Som, MA, MFTC, LPCC
This post is for the amicably uncoupling couple, the partners that, either consciously or not, are in the process of dissolving a once cherished and valuable partnership. At one point, you both experienced and expressed love for each other, and felt, on some level, satisfaction with your romance and relationship. Something about it worked. Maybe…
Ritual 101: Basic Ingredients for Creating Rituals Daily ll By Michelle LaBorde, MA, LPCC
As a collective, as a nation, we’ve very recently experienced an ending and a beginning. This is how we honor the transition of power in our country… we say farewell to one leader as we welcome and prepare for another. This is our way. We mark this process with ritual… as we did with the…
Why Meditate? ll By Faye Maguire, MA, LACC
Over the years, and especially in recent months, I have been encouraging my clients to try meditation, and have suggested it as a major change agent in their lives. As meditation has grown in popularity over the years, and as more information about it as a practice has been written about, many people have given…
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The opinions expressed by the guest bloggers are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of People House. The content provided through the People House website and blogs are for informational purposes only. Should you decide to take action in real life based on this information that is your own responsibility and choice.
