This is a guest post by Kristen Riordan (Schneider), grad intern, White Picket Fence Counseling Center. When I was five years old, my dad married my stepmom. The entire week they were on their honeymoon, I was scared. I remember not being able to sleep. Why? I was worried...
Mindfulness
How to Calm a Wild Imagination
This is a guest post by Kristen Riordan (Schneider), grad intern, White Picket Fence Counseling Center. The imagination is a beautiful thing. We use our imaginations to dream up future events. We envision where we’ll go, with whom and when. We use the imagination to entertain us – to...
Anxiety as a Continuum
As I speak to clients these days, there is one thing almost everyone is needing help with, and that’s managing anxiety. Of course, COVID has put a whole other layer on top of it and we even have a new name for it, “COVID anxiety.” When you think of...
Staying Centered in a Chaotic World
There’s only so much that relaxation exercises can do for us when there are outside circumstances creating stress and even panic in people around us. One of the things you may already do, and I do this as well, is limit your exposure to the news. Yet these days...
Mindful Living for Work-Life Balance
We carry so much of our lives with us wherever we go, right on our smartphones. Our personal lives seep into our work time, and work invades our personal time.
Mindful Living and the Four Pillars of Health
How to apply mindfulness to the four pillars of health - nutrition, movement, stress management, and clear thinking.
The Need for Mindful Living
Mindful living truly is the key to a balanced lifestyle, helping you solve daily challenges with food, exercise, stress, and decision making.
What to Do With Your Anger
I was taking a relaxing walk on the causeway, where there is a beach on both sides of the road. Because it’s such a beautiful natural area, it’s also very popular – especially on the weekends. Though drivers are supposed to yield to pedestrians and cyclists, I watched...
Living One Day at a Time
Living one day at a time keeps us in the present moment and puts the past and future into perspective, instead of us ruminating about either one
In Judgment of Our Judgment
Judgment may be a habit, maybe even something of a survival strategy, but it is like a venom that always makes us feel worse about ourselves.