When You Can’t “Snap Out of It”: How Depression Counseling Brings Relief
It’s been hard and you’ve tried everything you can think of. Depression is akin to a dark cloud hanging over you, fogging up your mind and heart. Distracting yourself, exercising, trying to get enough sleep, even digging deep to find the motivation all prove...
Boost Your Connection – How Can EFT Help
Posted by Counseling Wise on September 23, 2019 Lately, you've noticed that the emotional gap between yourself and your partner has widened. Whenever you try to bring up an important point, your partner pulls away. They feel like you are criticizing them. The...
Belonging: Our Very Important Tribal Need
Oprah’s new series “The Me You Don’t See” is an enormously well-crafted and deeply moving series. In that series, Oprah focuses her most amazing gifts on our mental health needs as humans. And the shining truth that emerged for me in her beautiful work is that we...
Regulation of the Central Nervous System: Why Is It Important?
Have you ever driven a sport’s car? If you have then you know the exhilaration of pushing the car beyond normal speed limits, feeling it respond. Also, you have noted how supple that car is when needing to break. However, in that experiment have you paid attention...
What is EMDR and Why is It So Effective?
It’s exhausting to deal with grief, trauma, anxiety, or any ongoing emotional upset. In fact, the burdens of these experiences can test coping mechanisms and keep one stuck in pain. Each day may feel like having to run faster and faster to avoid or bury...
Held Back by a Phobia? How to Cope with an Irrational Fear
Fear feels so real, yet we know that it isn’t based on fact A phobia causes very strong, intense experiences at the most inconvenient of times. It’s a block to a well lived fulfilled life we want to create as human beings. Yet, when triggered, the whole body and mind...
Trauma & Tummy Trouble: 6 Ways It Disrupts Your Gut
It is common knowledge that experiencing trauma can have significant repercussions on one’s health. However, these repercussions are also associated with mental health, such as anxiety and depression. So, which comes first? Trauma or tummy trouble? The answer is...
Overwrought and Overwhelmed? “Keep Calm and Carry On”
What??? What do you mean??? This is not WAR; it is just the holidays! Life is just so busy, and it seemingly never slows down! So many of us feel pulled in a dozen directions at once during this season. Maybe work, school, and family obligations pile on layers of...
How to Overcome Perfectionism and Find Balance: 3 Practical Steps
Perfectionism is such a sneaky trait. On the one hand, striving to be one’s best is a natural desire. On the other hand, if such striving tips over into perfectionism, then it carries impediments. And it sure can be a challenging line to walk. People with problems of...
Assert Yourself: 5 Ways to Clarify Your Boundaries & Intentions
Assertiveness is a skill, and as such, it can be learned. A common misconception is that you need to act like an extrovert to assert yourself. Yet, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Being assertive means being direct about what you need, want, feel or believe...