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World Mental Health Day


 Today is Word Mental Health Day, and boy, isn't 2020 a year that we could all use some mental health awareness?!  I'm finding that now, 7 months into this crazy pandemic, that folks' mental health is finally, really starting to take a hit.  After 7 months of being mostly cooped up at home, unable to go out much, unable to socialize with your friends and family, in person, and being stuck in front of a screen all day, we're beginning to experience some significant depression.  Not to mention, if you live anywhere on the West Coast, you've also had to deal with wildfires, smoke, and poor air quality.

You deserve to be your whole self, every day.  Not just World Mental Health Day.

Since 8th grade I have wanted to be.....known I would be....a therapist.  One of my greatest passions is to help people figure out just how to be their "whole self".  

Sometimes this means helping you uncover and work through the experiences in your past that are causing roadblocks for your future.  We all experience varying levels of trauma in our life, but most of the time we've shoved them really far down, but never actually dealt with them  And the trauma from those experiences creeps back up on us when we're least expecting it.  These become barriers to being your whole self.  In partnership with you, we work together to heal you from those traumas, so you can move past them once and for all.

Sometimes it means helping you improve your self-esteem.  Some of us have such low self-esteem and end up getting in our own way of success. Low self-esteem is most frequently a result of early traumas, often in childhood.  By revisiting those traumas, you can come to understand them from a different perspective...an adult perspective.  And with an adult perspective, you can usually create a new explanation and narrative for yourself...one that isn't all about blaming yourself or feeling ashamed or unworthy.  With empathy and sensitivity, I will help you address your early traumas and process them as an adult, so that you can rebuild your lost self-esteem and be your "whole self".

Sometimes it means helping you develop your self-confidence.  If you don't project self-confidence, other people won't treat you as someone who's confident and capable.  However, if you project self-confidence (even when you're still a little nervous!), others will take you seriously and you'll get the respect you want and deserve.  The lack of self-confidence often rears its ugly head in our careers.  If you're ready to level up your confidence and take the next step at work or in your career, or even dare to venture out on a new direction in life, I'm just the person to help you!

And sometimes it means gaining a better work/life balance.  This is going to sound strange, but I believe that selfishness can be beneficial!  YOU are important!  And in order for everything else in your life to fall into place, you need to make sure that you believe that.  And act on it.  If you believe you're important, you will do what it takes to maintain balance.  This may be self-care or it may be reinvigorating your relationships.

The word "whole" has many meanings.

  • free of wound of injury or recovered from a wound on injury
  • being healed
  • free of defect or impairment
  • physically sound & healthy; free of disease or deformity
  • mentally & emotionally sound
  • having all its proper parts or components
  • constituting the total sum or undiminished entirety
  • constituting the entirety of a person's nature or development
  • sometime constituting a complex unity; a coherent system or organization of parts fitting or working together as one
Do you see a theme here?  I mean, doesn't this description sound like someone or something you'd like to be?  It does to me!  And that's why I want to help you "be your whole self" on World Mental Health Day and everyday!

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