Thoughts, Emotions, and Feelings
“When you’re able to identify, feel, and express your feelings you can make the appropriate moves, changes, and decisions that will enable you to experience and enjoy your life to the fullest.”~Dr. Monica Lisa Schultz As long as we are living we will have experiences...
Endings
When you hear the word endings what comes to mind? Finality, over, no more, to cease being? When something ends the process or existence of whatever it is, is no longer. There are several things in our life that will come to an end: chapters of our life, parts of us,...
Boundaries Part II
Boundaries are the lines that we establish to mark what is and is not acceptable for us within relationships. Boundaries are the standards and restrictions we establish in determining who we are and who we are not and they are the things we put in place to take care...
Boundaries
When we experience trauma we experience a loss of our sense of self. We may disconnect from who we know ourselves to be. When we enter into a grieving process which is the physical, emotional, and spiritual response to a loss, sometimes it creates a narrative to us...
My Journey~ Community and Connection
Self-care is the time you take to nourish your body, soul, and spirit. It’s the time and action you dedicate to yourself for love, growth, and pleasure. Healthy self-care helps us to establish a foundation of peace to live from. Self-care is taking the time to...
Self-View and Other People’s Opinion
In life we experience different types of loss that puts us on the journey of grief. One journey of grief that we may experience at some point in life is the loss of our sense of self. Our sense of self is the way we see ourselves after we process our personal identity...
Grief~ Non-death losses
Grief does not only surface because of death. Grief surfaces because of significant loss or the failure to obtain something or someone significant to you. There are all types of loss. You can experience a loss in a relationship even when you are still actively in the...
Who am I
I’ve lost myself, I don’t know who I am, and I never really found myself are statements that I have heard several times from those who have come to me seeking counseling. These thoughts often have surfaced after a traumatic event or significant loss. When we are faced...
Grief, Guilt, and Regret
Life's a journey and on this journey we will travel many different paths. One of the paths that we will travel is grief. Grief is our response to a significant loss. Grief comes with a lot of different emotions, and physical and spiritual responses. Two emotions that...
My Journey !
I was told about blogging several years ago but I would not do it because writing intimidated me. It’s probably more truthful to say writing for others to read intimidated me because I have been writing since I was a young girl. I started keeping a diary when I was eight or nine years old. Keeping a diary was cool and it made me feel “grown” (lol). Over time diary keeping has become known as journaling.