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I’ve been a therapist since the early 1980s when I was in my early 20s. I was trained by a group of therapists who were drawing from a variety of approaches. That means I am trained to work with people using a variety of modalities, including talk therapy, creative therapy, body-centered therapy, cognitive therapy, and hypnosis. I am also trained as a Career Counselor. My tool kit is well equipped to provide each person with a unique therapeutic experience.
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Take moments of rest throughout your day to pause and notice yourself, your breath; a moment of just being, not doing, and not spacing out.
Decide to give your phone and other devices a break, and choose one thing you’d like to do during that time to allow yourself to some “me time”.
Consider a regular “bedtime” for your devices before your bedtime, so you have some device-free time before you go to sleep for the night.
This moment is just a moment. It does not define you. Whatever is happening in your life, whatever you are experiencing, this moment is just one point in the unfolding of your life.
Take a few moments to find out what you are feeling, and focus for a bit on that. Tell yourself the truth about how this Covid time is going for you. Angry, sad, scared, isolated, bored, freed up, tired, lonely, anti social, neurotic, fearful, anxious, depressed, obsessed, insomniac, creative, spaced out? This is an abnormal time, so it’s expected to be feeling some usual and some unusual things, and old familiar feelings too.
What happens, inside, if you have a moment of acceptance for whatever is true for you? Can you hold kindness and space for your truths? Is there anything that would be comforting ? Is there anyone you want to talk with about your truths? You can notice what it’s like to hold that space for yourself, to be kind to yourself about where you’re at.
Sometimes individuals get to a point where talking and figuring out their lives has become a source for stuckness and more frustration.
Many have a sense that the deeper yearning is for more aliveness and presence, more of an embodied experienced life.
To those I say seek it out. There are so many paths these days that guide in that direction. Never stop searching for what you know is possible.
Many Blessings,
Foundation for Female Health Awareness offers this useful information on the effects of nutrition on mental health. It’s written by Noelle DeSantis, MS, RDN, CDN
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) offers this guide to help you understand and what to do if you or someone around you is experiencing a mental health crisis.
Philip Be’er with words of wisdom.
Philip Be’er with more words of wisdom.
If you have pain in your lower back, this article may be helpful. Written by Baruch Zeichner MA, NBCC, LPC, LCMHC
SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration Services) offers a downloadable directory of community mental health services for all 50 states. SAMHSA’s mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America’s communities.
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network offers this directory of Queer Trans People of Color Therapists.
These relaxation programs, originally released on cassette in 1991 and digitally remastered in 2009, have helped many to deeply relax. Relaxation benefits one physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. – Baruch Zeichner & Adam Cooper Wood
This is a trance for discovering inner resources from Hypnotherapist Ewa Litauer at SF Hypnotherapy.
This is a trance for new beginnings from Hypnotherapist Ewa Litauer at SF Hypnotherapy.
The topic of stress and sleep is of the outmost importance as we head into 2021. The unprecedent times we have been living in since March 2020 have had a devastating effect on sleep, especially because of the stress caused by different situations linked to the pandemic such as financial hardship, isolation/confinement, loneliness, fear of catching or seeing a close one catching and dying of COVID-19; working from home, having kids home, etc. – Célyne H. Bastien, PhD
Philip Be’er has developed his own methods for discovering, mapping, and recovering from trauma. Hear about it in this podcast.
Maslow’s Army is based on Psychologist Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Susan and Samuel Landis founded the organization in 2017 to provide help and resources to people in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Here is a podcast about Maslow’s Army.
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In the tradition of working with story as therapeutic metaphor, Therapist Deborah Oak Cooper, MFT, shares a story, a myth, with a contemporary twist.
Uncertainty and Anxiety by Baruch Zeichner, MA, NCC, LPC, LCMHC We live in uncertain times. Covid, political unrest, climate change, all big issues that concern all of us because they threaten our well-being. Humans instinctually…
Hey Empaths This Is For You! by Baruch Zeichner, MA, NCC, LPC, LCMHC The trick to not being emotionally laid low by the world is to differentiate between one's personal challenges which one can effect,…
Relationships are Hard by Jonathan Chiaravalle, MA, LPC Even on the best of our days relationships with ourselves and the people that surround us can be difficult. Adding in the stressors of the pandemic makes…
