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Like the vast majority of Earth’s population, I dread the commercialization of the holiday season. Everywhere you look there are ads for this year’s gizmo, gadget, and whatchamacallit. The ads have a way of guilt tripping you into spending hundreds of dollars and making you believe that your loved one cannot live without the unnecessary
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“Your ability to hold space, practice compassion, empathy, vulnerability, and self-awareness creates exponentially more value than your ability to solve problems, crunch numbers, or strategize. In everything. Leadership, entrepreneurship, and relationships. Heart over head. Capacity is the new commodity. EQ is the new IQ. No one cares what you know. It’s now all about how
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“Ass burgers. It’s a burger for your ass.” It’s not the most mature way to approach this topic but I think about that quote all the time. Mostly because it’s hilarious. Ass burgers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nRzh4CJTZs The scene from the TV show Community is actually referencing Danny Pudi’s character, Abed, who is a very unique character, not
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Caring for one’s self is the most important thing you can do, but can also be the most difficult. There needs to be a balance that cannot always be easy to see. It can be scary at times, as well as feeling impossible. I’m here to tell you to keep going. It is possible to
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I am a mental health counselor with a mental illness. I know, hard to believe, right? I have my own mental health issues that span the better part of the last fifteen years. I suffer from debilitating depression, feelings of anxiety, and panic attacks. I take an antidepressant daily to keep my symptoms in check.
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At my own counseling session the other day, I presented an interesting conundrum to my therapist. I informed my her that I finally tapped into parts of my personality that were hidden since my high school and early college days. I expressed a strong sense of pride at first. For instance, I thrived on being
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I was eating dinner with a few friends. Suddenly, my phone rang, and I ignored it. It rang again. I figured it was important if the person was calling me again. I pulled my phone out of my pocket to see that my mom was calling. I let out a sigh, figuring it was something
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As the owner and operator of a nonprofit for sexual assault and domestic violence warriors, Within Your Reach, it becomes part of my day-to-day life to be contacted or confronted with a warrior, telling me their story or asking me questions. Not that this bothers me, I absolutely love that people feel comfortable discussing their
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In the middle of October, I took a trip to my local Wal-Mart looking for a bike lock. As I started walking down towards the outdoors area, I saw a tremendous array of Halloween decorations spanning across at least a half dozen aisles. This was to be expected. Across the way though, there was an
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If I am being wholly honest with myself, I have not escaped thinking of the emotion of anger for years. I began graduate school to study Clinical Mental Health Counseling in the fall of 2012; a short time after, I had started therapy with a new counselor who told me, point blank, that I held
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