Introducing an Online Teen and Family Services Healing Workshop You love your family, but is something just off? For some families, “my teen won’t talk to me” seems to be the main concern. For others, it’s the subtly different “my teen won’t listen to me.” Or perhaps you or your teen feels empowered by their […]
If you often feel overwhelmed by stress, or find yourself online searching, “stress management therapist near me,” mindfulness can be a tool to help decrease your stress levels in the meantime before you find a therapist, or practiced in combination with therapy. Over the last few years, with the stress of COVID, online school, working
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Stress is an inevitable reality of being a person. We all face stressors of varying degrees or find ourselves in particularly stressful seasons of life at one time or another. Perhaps you’re heading into finals week or only have a few more rehearsals until opening night. Maybe the expectations of the holidays are starting to
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Welcome to part four of our series on the PLEASE Stress Management Skills of DBT. We’ve already covered P-L-E and A in part one, two and three. We are now focusing on the last two stress management skills associated with PLEASE. These are possibly the most straightforward and obvious of the suggestions, and yet show
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Welcome to part four of our series on the PLEASE Stress Management Skills of DBT. We’ve already covered the first three letters in the acronym, P, L, and E in part one, two. We are now focusing on the A in PLEASE. Often, our stress results from the demands and expectations placed upon us by the
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By: David White, LPC Recently my 17-year-old son has taken up the guitar, and over the last two years, he’s become pretty good. As a result, he gets asked to play for random family gatherings: backyard BBQs, impromptu jam sessions, even the occasional 50th wedding anniversary. He plays and sings, and I back him
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Recently my 17 year old son has taken up the guitar and over the last two years he’s gotten to be pretty good. As a result he gets asked to play for random family gatherings; backyard BBQ’s, impromptu jam sessions, even the occasional 50th year wedding anniversary. He plays and sings and I back him
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I recently participated in the St. George, Utah Ironman 70.3 triathlon. It was such a cool experience in such a beautiful location. The desert red rock that Utah is so famous for surrounds the entire event with distant mountains framing every view and vista from the starting line to the finish line. The “70.3” is
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According to popular sentiment, 2021 was supposed to come along and make us all feel way better…sunshine, roses, unicorns, gatherings of 10 or more, you know a good life. Well 2021, we’re waiting…anytime now…wait for it…wait for it…almost there…almost there…stay on target…stay on target…well there’s always next year. So it turns out that reality doesn’t
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Life has always been full of expectations, difficulties, and disappointments; however, the challenges of the last 12 months have been an unprecedented source of stress for nearly everyone. Now more than ever, stress management is an essential skill for creating and maintaining a well-ordered life. Since we can’t always predict the stressors that will present
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We’ve been using the acronym CALM as a guide for how to help kids with anxiety. The C reminds us to catch the anxiety and anxious thoughts early. The A stands as a guide for acknowledging our kids and taking their experience seriously. The L prompts us to then listen in such a way that
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We have been talking about what we can do as parents to help our kids develop anxiety and stress management skills. Using the acronym C.A.L.M. as a guide, we will continue to discuss how we as parents can be the non-anxious presence our kids need as they struggle with their own experiences of fear about
As someone whose undergraduate degrees include both Psychology and Religious studies, I am always looking for different ways human beings can utilize both to promote emotional healing. With that being said, I don’t want to water down religious practices or philosophy; or enhance psychology to the level of religion. In fact, we won’t begin with
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Pandemic; most divisive election in recent history; on-line school; environmental crisis; social media; face coverings; protests; 24-hour news cycle; lock-down drills; SATs; economic downturn; wildfires; and if you aren’t freaking out yet don’t forget about spiders, snakes, and low flying birds. Weren’t the normal teenage stresses of dating, making the team, getting good grades, and
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You may be asking: what is spiritual health? What is emotionally healthy spirituality? Are there spiritual awakening stages? Can spirituality help me feel less lost in life? As it turns out, spiritual health, the spiritual journey, can be considered to be the same as the journey from immaturity to maturity; the same as the journey
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