Guided Mental Grounding Exercise
Over the next few weeks I'll be guiding you in some grounding exercise. Grounding is a set of exercises designed to distance you from...
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Aug 11, 20211 min read
Creating Your Calm Place
Creating and strengthening a calm place is one of my favorite EMDR exercises. Think of it this way...you have a memory network or a...
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Aug 11, 20211 min read
Creating and Using a 'Container'
Today is all about learning a handy EMDR Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) technique. How to create and use a container. Do...
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Aug 11, 20211 min read
Should You See a Therapist for Your Anxiety?
Let's talk about anxiety! Did you know that anxiety affects 40 million adults in the United States. That's just a little over 18% of the...
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Aug 11, 20212 min read
10 Key Strategies for Working/School from Home
Working and going to school from home can be challenging. It is so easy to feel overwhelmed by anxiety or sink into a depression that...
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Aug 11, 20211 min read
What is Teletherapy?
This is easily the most challenging time anyone of us have ever experienced. It's okay to be anxious, scared, irritable, angry, sad,...
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Aug 11, 20211 min read
Isolation and Depression
We are social animals. Even the most introverted of us need connection. This can be challenging at any time but especially now in the age...
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Aug 11, 20211 min read
Anxiety and the Body
Feeling anxious, stressed and anger can be really uncomfortable. Sometimes the physical sensations are the most disturbing part of the...
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Aug 10, 20211 min read
Challenging Negative Thoughts
So many of us have that 'tape' running in the back of our head. It's exhausting always having that voice that's telling you all the bad...
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rrava2
Aug 7, 20211 min read
Soothing Grounding
Soothing grounding is a way to talk kindly to yourself by focusing on things that make you happy. Great for depression and anxiety. When...
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Aug 7, 20211 min read
Physical Grounding
Physical Grounding is great for stress, anger, anxiety and dissociation.
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Aug 7, 20211 min read
Mental Grounding to Help with Anxiety
Mental grounding is an excellent way to help manage anxiety, dissociation and other strong negative emotions. It helps anchor you into...
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Aug 7, 20211 min read
Grounding- An overview
I continue exploring the changes in our community here in Champaign/Urbana and all of Illinois, that occurred virtually overnight. I also...
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Aug 7, 20211 min read
4/7/8 Breathing
I continue processing the pandemic and what sheltering place is like. Although I reject the concept of 'social distancing' I fully...
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Aug 7, 20211 min read
Getting through the Pandemic Successfully
This is day two of our collective awareness of just how much Covid-19 would change our lives. Anxiety, depression, anger, stress,...
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Aug 7, 20211 min read
Caring for your Mental Health During Covid-19
This is a weird, stressful, difficult time. I felt called to start a series of videos speaking to this crisis and how best to navigate it...
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Aug 6, 20214 min read
Anxiety and Automatic Negative Thoughts
Over 18% of our population struggles with anxiety. And yet, only 1/3 of those who struggle with anxiety seek treatment. You can recover...
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Aug 6, 20215 min read
A Day In The Life Of 'Sally'
This week, I am going to tell the story of Sally. Sally will manage to be passive, passive-aggressive & aggressive all in one very long...
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Aug 6, 20214 min read
Seasonal Affective Disorder
It's that time of year in the mid-west. The days are getting shorter and the nights are getting cooler. The leaves will be changing soon,...
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Aug 6, 20213 min read
Awesome Apps That Help Reduce Anxiety and Depression
Anyone that knows me knows I love technology. These days we’re all pretty connected to our phones so why not put them to use helping us...
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