Kim Powers at Heart Soul Mind Strength LLC

11/19/2025

Well done! 💯Growth is a gift

— growth. 🍃

11/19/2025

‼️ Upcoming group therapy!
Over the course of 12 weeks, we’ll explore motivation, mindset, habits, and resilience using practical tools and reflective discussions to support genuine transformation.

Whether you’re seeking personal growth, emotional balance, or a renewed sense of direction, this group offers a structured and supportive pathway to change.

Spots are limited. For more information or to register, call us at 269-598-2837

Group starts on Monday, December 1 | 4:00–5:30 PM
*No group on Monday, December 29

11/10/2025

11/09/2025

DBT : Wise Mind Skill.
Life's challenges require us to draw on both emotion and reason. Relying too much on just one of these creates an imbalanced perspective. In dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), wise mind balances emotion and reason, helping us make healthy decisions and lead a fulfilling life.

Wise Mind thinking is an excellent starting point for anyone new to DBT and is best practiced daily - several times a day, until it starts to be incorporated automatically.

This Wise Mind: DBT skill worksheet describes wise mind and how it differs from emotion and reasonable minds. Emotion mind is when we use feelings alone to determine our decisions and behavior, whereas reasonable mind is when we use only logic, ignoring our feelings.

With wise mind, we recognize and respect our feelings while responding to them in a rational way.

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11/05/2025

Need a good cry?

Research indicates that shedding emotional tears can have measurable benefits for mental and physical health. When we cry, the body reduces levels of stress hormones, which are chemicals that can accumulate during periods of tension and anxiety. According to Harvard Health Publishing, tears also trigger the release of endorphins, natural compounds that help alleviate pain and promote feelings of well-being. This dual effect of lowering stress and boosting endorphins contributes to a sense of emotional relief and balance. Therefore, allowing oneself to cry can be a natural mechanism for the body and mind to heal and maintain equilibrium.

10/30/2025

It Is Wednesday! Here is your friendly reminder from Soul & Story Creative to make creativity and play a part of your day (no matter your age).😋

10/22/2025

Oldie but a goodie

10/21/2025

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10/16/2025

How we feel and the emotions we experience are a central part of our mental health. Conversely how we respond to emotions is critical for our health, mental and physical. While they can perplexing, stubborn, frustrating, annoying, frightening and downright depressing at times, emotions are a fundamental and necessary part of brain functioning. In fact, they are central to being human.

Unfortunately societal beliefs often tells us we shouldn’t have emotions or some emotions are bad. Telling your brain it shouldn’t have emotions is like telling your heart not to beat or your lungs not to breathe, and it doesn’t make your brain very happy.

Emotions don’t always feel nice and can make us want to run away from them. And like any avoidance, short term this seems to work, we feel relieved. But inside your brain is feeling pretty annoyed at trying to hold it all in.

How you respond to your emotions is important. Research shows suppressing, berating and shaming emotions doesn’t help us deal with them at all and just creates more stress and make emotions feel even more difficult.

Naming, validating, expressing and recognising emotions seems to help us process them and help us become friends with them, rather than them having power over us. It seems to soothe those emotions and instead of adding a layer of more stress and difficult feelings, helps us deal with the ones we have.

read more about the science of emotions and how we can help our emotions in my books
📕‘A Toolkit for your Emotions’.
📚 A toolkit for modern life
📖 A toolkit for happiness