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5/24/2022

Cues of Safety: To Deal with stress, send a message to your body that you are safe (enough) in this moment

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Last week I brought home two 9 months old kittens I adopted.  They are daughters of a feral mother.  While they have been in foster care most of their lives, they were quite scared to come home with me. 


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2/28/2021

Hack Your Habits

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Do you know what you need to do to help yourself feel better in your body and enjoy life more, but struggle to get yourself to do it?  It's not you that's the problem - it's the way you're going about it.
Let's get real about behavior change.


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2/6/2021

Yoga Works:  How Yoga Improves Mental Health

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For information on Yoga with Jen go to

https://www.pathwaysuniversitymn.com/tctsy

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Yoga has been shown to have many benefits on all levels of our being - physical, physiological, biochemical, psychological, and spiritual (West, p. 33).  The research over the past decade or two has demonstrated what yogis have known for millennia - that yoga works.  But how it works is something we have only begun to clarify somewhat recently.  So, I’d love to share some of the ways that yoga helps us as well as what we know about how it does that.


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1/17/2021

When Positivity is Toxic:  Why we need to feel our feelings and how to do it

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As a therapist, I live in the world of feelings.  Talking about feelings, thinking about feelings, and most importantly feeling feelings, helping others to do the same.  In my work over the past 20 plus years as well as through observations within my personal experiences it is clear that knowing what to do with feelings is the exception not the norm.  And we come by it honestly.


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12/17/2020

MST Survivors:  unpacking the supreme court's recent ruling from a mental health perspective

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TRIGGER WARNING: This article and pages it links to contain information about sexual assault and related violence which may be triggering to survivors.  You may consider creating a safe-enough space for yourself if/when you choose to engage with this material, perhaps reading it in smaller increments as needed.


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12/7/2020

GUEST Writer: Stages of Grieving: Take the Steps to a Resourceful Life

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Check out this article on grief by Jeremy Sycks, a NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Master Practitioner, NLP Trainer, and a Certified Life Coach specializing in Grief Coaching:
https://inlpcenter.org/stages-of-grieving-take-the-steps-to-a-resourceful-life/

In this article, Sycks walks us through how to manage and grow through the pain of our grief.  He writes:
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Resourceful stages of grieving is a way to be present in your current situation while creating resourceful states, communications, and behaviors to manage yourself throughout your grief."​

He shares three helpful tips for working through grief as well.  Check it out!

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10/22/2020

Protect Your energy

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Tips from a Highly Sensitive Person


There is SO much energy whirling around us right now, and a lot of it is negative.  That doesn’t mean the positive isn’t out there, but given the state of things right now, it may be harder to find.  You may find yourself feeling drained or exhausted from all of the bad news or upset energy.  This may be new for you or if you are highly sensitive, it may be more intense than usual but perhaps feels like business as usual.


As a highly sensitive person living in a world that is not, I have picked up some skills over the years to protect my energy and be selective around what I let in.  I am noticing so many more people struggling with this than usual, so here are things to try that help me.

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10/22/2020

Got that Gut punch, Heart Wrenching feeling of "Unh"?  This may be why.

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You know that gut-punching, heart-sinking “unh” sensation you have been feeling?  It may be 
Ambiguous Loss.  Pauline Boss coined the term for this loss without the promise of anything that looks like resolution, loss without certainty.  After listening to a podcast interview of Dr. Boss by Krista Tippett, I knew that was the “unh” I had been feeling.


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10/21/2020

Coping with the tough stuff of life

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“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional”  ~Haruki Murakami


When we resist or fight with the reality of a situation, we suffer.  If instead we can accept the truth of reality, we can then do something about what is happening.  This doesn’t mean that we can always easily accept every situation - it can take time and practice to do that.  But until we are able to accept the reality of a situation we will continue to suffer in some way.


Radical acceptance is a practice of acknowledging the reality of a situation, letting go of denial or fighting with reality.  It means that we accept life as it is showing up in this moment.

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8/13/2020

HOW DO WE CREATE THE LIFE WE WANT?

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For me, creating the life we want, our ideal life, comes down to living from a place of calm and with mindful attention in the present moment so we can live with intention.  That’s a pretty packed up statement, so I’d like to break it down.

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