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Seasonal Affective Disorder and Winter in Minnesota
Minnesota is a hard place to live, and maybe even harder to love, between the months of October and March (or April or May). It’s cold, it’s snowy, the sunlight…
Read MoreTapping into Sleep
Sleep issues tend to be one of the most common symptoms that accompanies issues with anxiety. When a person’s nervous system stays in a prolonged state of fear, the sympathetic nervous system related to fight, flight, and freeze, it can be hard for the nervous system to enter into the parasympathetic nervous system, rest and relaxation, long enough for deep sleep to occur.
Read MoreBefriending Our Bodies
Our bodies are the tellers, the holders, the sharers, and the teachers. Throughout this past week in session, many clients have named that they are experiencing sensations in their body…
Read MoreMindfulness Through the Holidays
The holidays are a busy time at best, for a lot of us they can be really stressful. There are plans to be made, family visits, purchases, organizing, and maybe parenting or political discussions sprinkled in there as well. Through busy-to-stressful times, it can be hard to be present, connected, and at peace.
Read MoreNew Year, New Goal – Shifting the Perspective & Setting Intentions
Even if we have a larger goal in mind, let’s start small so we are internally reinforced by our own success. We can start to shift the unattainability to a more realistic mindset by setting daily intentions.
Read MoreBuilding Shame Resilience
Shame resiliency is being able to recognize shame when we are experiencing it and then move through it in a constructive way that allows us to maintain our authenticity and grow from our experiences.
Read MoreLove, Not Just a Gimmick for a Holiday
Love, when two hearts meet and…(insert whatever the rest of the card says here). Love is not just a four letter word for those opposed to the commercialization of our…
Read MoreBenefits of Experiencing your Emotions
As a therapist I focus a lot on emotions and feel emotions are very important to our experience of being a human which includes acknowledging, experiencing, and validating our emotions.…
Read MoreWhat is Energy Psychology? Part II
In Part II of this blog post series you will learn about the human energy field and its relationship to energy psychology. Read Part I of this blog here. Few…
Read MoreWhen Ingratitude Comes ‘a’ Knockin’
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a…
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