Shane Stamas, CADC II

03/19/2024

Hello to all my therapist, counselor, and treatment world friends! We are hosting an open house on April 12th at our new location. We will have some tasty snacks and a great networking opportunity, it will be a casual come and go as you please. Hope to see you there thank you for all your support.

02/10/2023

We cannot run or hide from our unresolved emotional pains. No matter how big or small we think these pains are, pain is pain and it will always surface if left neglected.

01/30/2021

Compassion the single most healing act towards self, others, and the world. Also can be the single most difficult act in times of hurt, anger, and fear. It requires practice and intention to be successful at providing. But like anything else we all are capable of developing if the time is put in.

11/24/2020

The obstacle is the path. We spend so much time and energy trying to avoid the obstacle because of the feelings it provokes with in us. Learning to lean into these obstacles with the proper support of community and coping skills unlocks a world of freedom and empowerment.

04/02/2020

Being in the now, not the now of these times the now of this very second that you read this. Take a breath feeling your belly rise and fall, feeling the weight of your body, clearing the mind of past and future thoughts. Be in the NOW, this is all we have at any given moment. Offering yourself this practice daily will dramatically change your experience of life. In the current time we are in it is very easy to be swept away from the now and taken to the future of uncertainty or the desperation of desiring the past. Both of those are missing the now, try dropping into the now as often as you can as it is all you have.

03/04/2020

Today marks 12 years clean and sober for me. My entire time in recovery has been spent doing exactly as this quote describes, “an unlearning, excavation, and Remembering” of who I am. This has been done through therapy, AA meetings, mentors, meditation, close friendships, and family members. This is a process that is still in action and will never end which excites me, because what this 12 years has brought me is only a small fraction of what is to come in my reintroduction to my true self.

12/06/2019

Daily I work with individuals who have been deeply misattuned too throughout their lives and it resulting in the disruption of connecting to true self. This also known as covert trauma, more often then not it is pushed aside as “others have it worse then me” which compounds the trauma and continues to keep the person disconnected from the wholeness of life

12/05/2019

More studies have been showing the power of epigenetic’s and how generational trauma continues to disrupt and impact the family tree. Sadly leading to more compounding trauma in a persons life, there are great innovate ways to help heal this now.

Changes to s***m may transmit epigenetic changes to children

12/03/2019

Through these steps new layers of self will surface and usually require you to keep doing the same steps

11/10/2019

It all exist in you! The good the bad the ugly, seek the journey and enjoy the change.

10/25/2019

The practice of loving-kindness is an endless journey. Some may find it easy to be loving and kind to others but neglect themselves, other may find it easier to be kind and loving to self but struggle offering it to others. This is a practice that requires constant attention and effort but offers priceless peace of the heart.

10/22/2019

So much energy spent on trying to control and change things in our lives, often times while in the midst of trying to change we do more harm to self and sometimes others. But if we pause and try to seek to understand how we are relating to the situation, and how that is serving us new perspectives and ways of relating may show themselves.