Creative Journeys Counseling, LLC

02/26/2022

I've got a couple availabilities for EMDR consultation, contact me with any questions or to schedule a complementary consultation:)

03/12/2020

https://afsp.org/taking-care-of-your-mental-health-in-the-face-of-uncertainty/

Taking Care of Your Mental Health in the Face of Uncertainty AFSP Share61.2KTweetShare By Doreen Marshall, Ph.D. Human beings like certainty. We are hard-wired to want to know what is happening when and to notice things that feel threatening to us. When things feel uncertain or when we don’t gener...

03/10/2020

03/05/2020

This from The Holistic Psychologist

12/01/2019

It turns out having bad dreams at night may actually lesson anxiety symptoms during the day. Check out this interesting study to learn more:)

The moment after waking up from a bad dream often involves scanning the room for any potential monsters, switching the light on to double check, then spending the next hour on high alert. But, according to new findings, bad dreams can actually…

10/10/2019

Halloween can be triggering for folks with PTSD. Check out this brief article for some tips to help keep yourself emotionally safe in the midst of all the fake blood and scary movies!

Halloween is not fun or those with mental illness, PTSD or panic. It can be fraught with triggers and negative emotions.

09/26/2019

It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn't heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood to Eeyore's house. Inside the house was Eeyore.

"Hello Eeyore," said Pooh.

"Hello Pooh. Hello Piglet" said Eeyore, in a Glum sounding voice.

"We just thought we'd check on you," said Piglet, "because we hadn't heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay."

Eeyore was silent for a moment. "Am I okay?" he asked, eventually. "Well, I don't know, to be honest. Are any of us really okay? That's what I ask myself. All I can tell you, Pooh and Piglet, is that right now I feel really rather Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All.

Which is why I haven't bothered you. Because you wouldn't want to waste your time hanging out with someone who is Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All, would you now."

Pooh looked and Piglet, and Piglet looked at Pooh, and they both sat down, one on either side of Eeyore in his stick house.

Eeyore looked at them in surprise. "What are you doing?"

"We're sitting here with you," said Pooh, "because we are your friends. And true friends don't care if someone is feeling Sad, or Alone, or Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are."

"Oh," said Eeyore. "Oh." And the three of them sat there in silence, and while Pooh and Piglet said nothing at all; somehow, almost imperceptibly, Eeyore started to feel a very tiny little bit better.

Because Pooh and Piglet were There.
No more; no less.

Author - AA Milne
Illustration - EH Shepard

02/03/2019

https://apple.news/AMBzUoFmaSr6PDN0CgVGt4w

While many people believe that how we feel and express anger is hard-wired, some scientists suggest our experience and culture help shape it. One way to get a handle on it may be to personalize it.

01/30/2019

01/28/2019

https://trib.al/z3Kffa0

You gradually shift your entire perspective on life.