Therapy by Mindy

Therapy by Mindy Mindy Staum is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has been providing therapy to adults and seniors with their homes or communities. I love what I do.

Helping young, middle age and older people navigate their way through life have been a passion of mine. My passion coupled with my formal and educational training means that I get to help people every day. How can I help you?

02/15/2026

Regulation happens when we repeatedly train the brain to:

• notice activation without panic
• pause before reacting
• bring the nervous system back to balance

This is called neuroplasticity the brain’s ability to rewire through experience.

Every time you choose awareness over reaction,
you strengthen neural pathways for calm.

Not instantly.
Not perfectly.
But permanently.

That’s why emotionally intelligent people aren’t calm because life is easy.

02/14/2026
02/14/2026

True emotional regulation isn’t about forcing yourself to behave better.

It’s about teaching your brain how to return to safety.

02/14/2026

💖 Valentine’s Day Is Tomorrow — A Gentle Reminder to Appreciate the People Who Matter 💖

Valentine’s Day gives us a beautiful reason to pause and tell the people in our lives how much they mean to us. But what if we carried that same spirit into our workplaces?

Because here’s the truth: gratitude at work isn’t just a “nice to have.” It’s powerful. And surprisingly, it’s rare — studies show that less than 10% of people express gratitude at work on a daily basis... and ~60% of people never or rarely express gratitude at work 👀

That’s a missed opportunity.

02/13/2026

Your reactions teach your brain what to expect next time.

What you practice repeatedly
becomes your default response under pressure.

Emotional intelligence isn’t a personality trait.

It’s trained capacity.

And like any training
it changes your brain before it changes your behavior.



02/12/2026

Practice dialectic replacing

Dialectical thinking is the strategy that keeps you from getting stuck in extremes like “I’m fine / I’m broken,” “They’re right / They’re evil,” or “Either I succeed perfectly or I fail.”

The goal is to replace black-and-white (“either/or”) thinking with middle-path (“both/and”) thinking so you can:

• reduce emotional escalation
• problem-solve more effectively
• improve relationships
• stay flexible instead of rigid

Common dialectical thinking moves:

• Look for what’s valid on both sides.
“I’m doing the best I can and I need to try harder.”

• Replace “but” with “and.” (“But” often cancels the first part.)
“I’m upset and I can still handle this.”

• Zoom out to context and time.
“This feeling is intense right now and feelings change.”

• Synthesize opposites into a new option.
“I can set a boundary and still be kind.”

• Assume there’s more than one cause/solution.
“Multiple things can be true, and I can take the next best step.”

02/12/2026

Our mindset plays a very important role in our life. Many times, our mind is filled with fears, apprehensions, insecurities, anxieties, worry about future, thinking about uncertainties that can happen in life. The more we think such thoughts, more we start feeling negative. It is important to work on our subconscious mind and train our mind to think positive in any situation. So whatever situation we are in, we must start rewiring our subconscious mind.

One way to do is to think and write all the positive affirmations on a regular basis, read it loud. When this is done on a repeated basis, our subconscious mind will start to believe what we are feeding it. This can help us to think positive. This can help us to come out from negativity. When positive words, phrases are written and uttered on a regular basis, it can start manifesting and become our reality.

Some of our affirmations can be,
“I am happy.”
“I am peaceful.”
“I am healthy.”
“Each and every cell of my body is healthy.” And so on…

Let’s change the way of looking at things.

Let’s write down what we want from our life and not think about what we don’t want from our life.

Our thought becomes our reality.

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