Heritage Counseling and Wellness PLLC

12/29/2025

DBT Skills. Distress Tolerance Module. STOP Skill.

12/20/2025

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💛🎄 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗕𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 – 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁, 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆

The week before Christmas is the wobbly one — especially for kids.
School routines change, excitement is sky-high, everyone’s tired, and emotions run a bit closer to the surface.

Here’s a gentle reminder for this stretch between the 18th and the 22nd:

💛 Kids get overwhelmed easily this week
They’re tired. They’re overstimulated. They’re trying to manage big feelings with small bodies.

💛 Take the pressure down at home
Keep things simple: easy dinners, slower evenings, lowered expectations.
Your calm helps their calm.

💛 Keep things soft and steady
A cosy film, a quiet chat, a short walk, a cuddle on the couch — grounding moments matter more than ever.

💛 Connection first — everything else can wait
Not every job needs doing.
Not every plan needs keeping.
What your child needs most this week is you: patient, present, and steady.

If you’re finding it all a bit much yourself — that’s normal too.
One slow evening can reset everyone. 💛

12/18/2025

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12/16/2025

Excellent resource❤️

Free WHAT A CHILD’S BEHAVIOUR IS REALLY TELLING YOU POSTER

This poster puts into words what many adults feel but struggle to explain.

When a child shouts, refuses, withdraws, lashes out or melts down, it is easy to see behaviour as bad, defiant or attention seeking. This poster clearly shows that behaviour is communication. It helps adults stop reacting to what they see and start thinking about what the child is trying to tell them.

The poster explains how challenging behaviour is often linked to unmet needs such as feeling overwhelmed, unsafe, tired, hungry, anxious, overstimulated or in need of connection. It supports a trauma informed, needs led way of responding that focuses on understanding rather than punishment.

This resource is especially helpful for children who struggle with emotional regulation, big feelings, anxiety, sensory overload, attachment needs or trauma related stress. It helps adults understand what is happening in a child’s nervous system when they are under pressure.

Comment CHILD and we will send you a message with a link to a free PDF of this resource.

12/16/2025

In a culture obsessed with nonstop productivity and the glorification of relentless effort, Brené Brown’s reflections offer a much-needed pause. Her work on vulnerability and courage reveals that beyond sheer hustle lies a different kind of power - one rooted in grace. This isn’t about grinding harder or faster but about showing up with honesty, compassion, and presence. Grace opens doors that hustle alone can’t, inviting us into spaces where real connection and transformation happen.

This emphasis on grace as a sustaining force finds a clear resonance in the work of the philosopher and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray. In ‘To Be Two’, Irigaray explores how relationality, being truly present and responsive to others, forms the foundation of ethical life. She argues that authentic connection requires more than willpower or effort; it demands openness, patience, and a gentle attentiveness that can’t be rushed or forced. This attentiveness is a form of grace, a way of being that cultivates understanding and nurtures growth.

Similarly, the contemporary thinker and psychoanalyst Jessica Benjamin, in ‘Beyond Doer and Done To’, examines how mutual recognition and vulnerability create the conditions for genuine dialogue and change. Benjamin shows that power exercised through domination or sheer force, akin to hustle, ultimately fractures relationships. By contrast, power enacted through acknowledgment and respect, which requires a kind of grace, fosters resilience and transformation.

This lesson extends beyond the personal. In politics and social movements, grace can be a radical force. Choosing empathy over anger, patience over immediate victory, and dialogue over division often leads to more lasting change. Such grace requires courage, it’s an active engagement with hardship that refuses to be reduced to mere hustle or brute force.

Ultimately, Brené Brown’s insight invites us to rethink how we navigate life’s challenges. While hustle may fuel ambition, grace sustains it. It teaches us to pause, to listen, and to meet ourselves and others with generosity. In that space, struggle transforms into resilience, and real power emerges - not from the frantic chase but from the calm, steady presence of grace.

IMAGE: BBeargTeam

12/13/2025

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12/13/2025

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12/06/2025

Great advice for a very hard area of parenting… ❤️

12/02/2025

I always enjoy spending time with this special group…
Our team wishes you all a very merry Christmas season! 🎄

11/26/2025

When we demonstrate this as parents, we’re modeling this for our children- and we’re giving them a lifetime gift of knowing how to be grateful and content.

One day, you’ll be proud of your grown children who see beauty, feel abundance, and stay content even in the everyday.🧡