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Unwind the Mind and Revolutionize Your Stress Response With This Guide

Stress often finds its way into our daily existence without us truly knowing it, subtly impacting both our mental and physical health. This ever-present challenge, if left unchecked, can destroy our well-being. This helpful article, courtesy of Path to Hope Counseling, serves as a guiding light of sorts, illuminating different ways to identify and manage […]

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Dealing with Uncertainty

The up coming election has brought forth many different emotions in myself and my clients. Anxiety, worry, doubt, depression and of course, uncertainty. As the results continue to trickle in anxiety may be heightened as we don’t know what to expect and what will happen. In times of uncertainty, worry and anxiety tend to flourish

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How to Start and Stick with an at Home Meditation Practice Part 2

Getting started can be the hardest part but once you do, how do you keep it consistent? Our brains resist change and its so easy to f all into old habits and a litany of excuses. “I’m too tired,” “I don’t’ feel like it” or “I don’t have time for meditation.” These all can derail

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How to Start and Stick with an at Home Meditation Practice Part 1

The therapeutic benefits of a regular meditation practice is well researched. A regular practice can help you be less reactive to stress, help you calm your nervous system, decrease blood pressure, reduce cortisol, enhances self-awareness and helps with focus. These benefits are out of reach if you take a band aid approach and only use

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Inner Harmony: Exploring Alternative Mental Health Solutions

By Guest Writer Julia Mitchell As life’s stressors increases, safeguarding mental wellness becomes increasingly complex, yet this challenge also presents the opportunity for inventive strategies for mental health care. Venturing beyond traditional avenues opens up a treasure trove of creative methods that nurture inner peace and enhance life’s richness. This guide encourages the embrace of

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When to try a Holistic Counseling Approach

When I started as a Therapist I only used traditional talk therapy. Its foundation is in building a therapeutic relationship, creating a safe space, problem solving techniques and using a cognitive approach. This involves identifying irrational or unhelpful beliefs, challenging and disputing those thoughts or beliefs and creating new more helpful thoughts. This approach to

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What to expect in therapy if you’ve never been

Contacting a Therapist the first time is intimidating! I know the first time I reached out when I first moved to this area and was experiencing a lot of anxiety, it was so hard to take the first step to contact someone for help. The first time you call you feel uncertain and you don’t

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