The work week is done for many of us. How's your piggy bank? The emotional Piggy Bank that is.
Were you able to:
✔️ Set/Keep Boundaries
✔️ Value yourself
✔️ Value your happiness
✔️ Not compare you to others
✔️ See your life as valuable
Or was it more of a deficit type of week?:
➖ Finding value only in what you give them
➖ Sacrifice yourself/time so others are happy
➖ Letting others take advantage of you
➖ Saying "yes" when you should say "no"
Maybe it's time to invest in you, rather than spending your emotional energy on others. My Healthy Interactions Group discussed Values this week, figuring out what it is that truly matters to us.
Reach out if you need help adding to your piggy bank.
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Feel it to Heal it.
Here's a message from my colleague, Jax Anderson, who primarily sees teens in the Fox Cities. This message is not just for the teens she sees, though. All forms of trauma MUST BE FELT before we #work_thru_it.
I'm hear to help you as you "Work Through It," because "getting over it" just gives the past a pause to come back full force!!
#mentalhealthmatters #lonelynotalone #helpisnear #anxiety #depression #angermanagement #ptsd #mensissues #womensissues #healthyrelationships #authenticity #beyou #michaelnollcounselingMany of us react to painful emotions by avoiding or distracting. As if the painful emotions are something we ‘shouldn’t’ be feeling.
The painful emotions are not ‘bad’, they simply feel uncomfortable. They’re supposed to be uncomfortable, how else are they to get our conscience attention?
Painful emotions are screaming: “Hey! Hey you!! Yeah, I’m talking to you! You need to give this memory some attention so it can settle the hell down!!”
I’m not sorry folks, when I say you have to FEEL IT to HEAL IT. Sometimes things FEEL like they’re getting worse when they’re healing, but in reality they’re getting better...they’ve just FINALLY got your conscious attention.
Go ahead and allow it to be felt, your brain knows what to do, it’s wired to heal. You just have to get out of its way with your ignoring, distracting and avoiding ways and FEEL IT.
Are you a former avoider, distracter, ignorer who eventually healed by feeling it?
I want to hear from you!! ...
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A little over a year ago I was a guest on my first, and only to date, podcast. I thought it would be a good time to revisit this, as I have grown as a therapist, person and business owner.
If you're seeking information about me, here's a great introduction to who I was, and still very much am.
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How healthy of a relationship are to currently enjoying? How many toxic folks are hanging around in your circle??! How would you know?
Take some time to set healthy boundaries and love you!! You're the only "You" you've got... Make yourself a priority today!
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