Manchester Counseling Center

10/29/2023

Raise your hand if you agree! 🖐

Repairing with our children is one of the most important conscious parenting tools in our tool belt. Special shout out to those of you who grew up never hearing “I’m sorry” and are breaking that cycle by apologizing to your children.

Did your parents apologize to you growing up? Are you an apologizing kind of family now?

If you would like some additional support in cultivating a strong connection with your child and your inner child, be sure to check out my Connected Kid Toolkit. ***LINK IN BIO*** or head to KidToolkit.com

It’s a powerful bundle of 3 different- but connected- parenting products, including 50 conversation cards, online activities, and a parenting workbook JUST FOR YOU.


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08/03/2022

When you meet another person there are four basic positions you can take.
You can have a fight.
You can run away.
You can stand there and not do anything.
Or you can move towards them.

– Veeresh

02/07/2022

11/13/2021

— You Don’t Just Lose Someone Once —
You lose them over and over,
sometimes many times a day.
When the loss, momentarily forgotten,
creeps up,
and attacks you from behind.
Fresh waves of grief as the realisation hits home,
they are gone.
Again.

You don’t just lose someone once,
you lose them every time you open your eyes to a new dawn,
and as you awaken,
so does your memory,
so does the jolting bolt of lightning that rips into your heart,
they are gone.
Again.

Losing someone is a journey,
not a one-off.
There is no end to the loss,
there is only a learned skill on how to stay afloat,
when it washes over.

Be kind to those who are sailing this stormy sea,
they have a journey ahead of them,
and a daily shock to the system each time they realise,
they are gone,
Again.

You don’t just lose someone once,
you lose them every day,

for a lifetime.

© Donna Ashworth Words

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10/28/2021

I had a few requests to repost this….

Living with a Broken Heart

Remember what the Tin Man said in the “Wizard of Oz” after he finally got a heart….

“Now I know I've got a heart because it’s breaking.”

If someone you love died, your heart is probably broken. So how do you live with a broken heart?

The answer isn’t how you fix it or move beyond it. The skill is learning to live with your grief as an ongoing way of being in the world. It’s the way you honor that which you love.

What I’m proposing is that, with enough healing, living with heartbreak can become natural, and very normal.

From my personal and professional experience, I can tell you that as you embark on your healing journey, you’ll start crying a whole lot more. Not just to clear pain, but for the simplest of everyday reasons, and out of nowhere. You’ll cry when you see a bird, a can of paint, an apple, or even the shape of a cloud.

Random things will make you cry.

The heart is designed to grieve, it wants to grieve…..it has to grieve!

Especially when it’s broken.

This is the price you pay for love. The loss of the life you thought you had, the life you once knew and held so dear. Loss of a dream you believed was true.

But you can also find and feel grief in opening your heart.

Opening it to love and to new possibilities. Opening it to what the future holds.

Isn’t that what life is all about? Endings and beginnings, closings and openings? The heart was designed to navigate you through this forever winding adventure called life. But you have to be willing to feel…..and to live with a broken heart.

Here’s the thing…..you can learn to live with your broken heart by befriending your grief.

You can discover the love that still exists around you…..and share that love with others who are also living with a broken heart.

Gary Sturgis - “Surviving Grief”

09/03/2020

the CDC said no evictions but rent is due (quote by Ann Landers)

04/28/2020