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06/05/2021

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04/13/2020

Check out this COVID-19 resource list:
www.watershedcounselingllc.com/covid-19-resources

Feel free to share, or to send me suggested additions.
I'm aiming to update it weekly.

Stay tuned for next blog.
Obviously, my goal of a daily blog was a bit of a reach!

Stay safe and be kind ❤️

04/03/2020

Excited to officially launch the Watershed Counseling BLOG! https://watershedcounselingllc.com/blog

Also, stay tuned for my upcoming SILVER LINING SERIES right here on the Watershed page - a daily dose of beauty, gratitude and wonder, in the midst of this coronavirus crash landing.

Take care and be safe,
Rebekah

12/01/2019

How does “self-care” take shape for you? Great article. ❤️

“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.

It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.

It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.

A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.

True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.

And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.

It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.

It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.

If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.

It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.

It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.

It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.”
-Brianna Wiest
https://ko-fi.com/donate_nepenthe



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11/16/2019

So thrilled for this lady. A brilliant resource for girls and teens in our area! ❤️

Hello all! I've been super busy painting, cleaning, decorating and upgrading my new office space. My new location is in the back of the 'old paint shop,' as it's know, in Deale, Maryland. Some call it the "Ebay Store." My office is around the back of the left side of the building (looking at the bui...

11/16/2019

That subtle but significant difference in how we respond to others when they are flooded in emotions and can’t quite access their rational brain yet! I like this simple article. ❤️

Nobody wants to be kicked when they are already down so naturally, we think that telling people uplifting mantras about positivity will give them the boost they need, but this is not always the case.

11/16/2019

Cell phones in schools can be a controversial topic. Many parents feel they want their children to have their phones for safety purposes. What are your thoughts?

Teachers at Mountain Middle School in Durango knew they had to do something.

11/13/2019

My 9 year old LOVES to meditate with me. So many ways to get access to this - guided meditations through apps like Headspace and ones made for children like Mind Yeti. Skills that will serve them a lifetime! ❤️

Traditionally when children act up in school, they would get detention or they get suspended. An Elementary School in Baltimore has a

10/24/2019

Watershed Counseling LLC is officially OPEN FOR BUSINESS! I am so grateful for everyone's love and encouragement in helping me to create this private practice, and I am very much looking forward to growing it. I hope that you will pass my page Watershed Counseling LLC or my webpage www.watershedcounselingLLC.com on to folks who you feel may benefit from my creative, compassionate, strengths-based approach. And, if you could, please consider LIKING or SHARING MY PAGE, so that others can find me on their own. Thank you and take care, ❤️ Rebekah