Crystal Clear Counseling

12/27/2025

Emotional maturity is the ability to hold space for someone else’s feelings without being triggered, (getting offended, angry, sad). It means listening with presence instead of defensiveness, and remembering that 9/10 times, it’s not personal - it’s simply their inner world asking to be seen. It’s one of the most meaningful gifts you can offer another human.

Some phrases that can help:
“I’m here to listen — tell me what’s going on.”
“Your feelings do matter.”
“Thanks for trusting me with this.”
“I can see this is really important to you.”
“What are you feeling right now?”
“I hear you.”
“Your experience is valid, even if it’s different from mine.”
“What do you need in this moment?”

Drop a 💗 if any of these resonate…

12/21/2025

It's that simple. If it drains you, it's not for you..

12/05/2025

Suffering rarely comes from life itself.
It comes from the way we cling to life.

The cycle is simple, yet powerful:

✨ Attachment → Expectation
When we hold tightly to people, outcomes, and ideas,
we begin to expect how things should be.

✨ Expectation → Disappointment
And when reality doesn’t match our inner script,
we feel betrayed by life.

✨ Disappointment → Pain
That emotional pain becomes suffering —
not because life was cruel,
but because we were attached.

The truth is:
🌿 The tighter we hold, the more we suffer.

Everything in life is impermanent:
people, emotions, seasons, moments, relationships, opportunities, even our own thoughts.

When we attach, we resist change.
And resistance is where suffering is born.
It is not the change that hurts —
it is our refusal to accept it.

The more attached you are,
the more fragile your happiness becomes.

Because when your joy depends on:
one person
one outcome
one idea
one fantasy
one “forever”
it takes only:
one change
one rejection
one ending
one truth
to shatter your world.

This is why the Buddha taught the path of gentle holding —
love fully, but don’t cling.
Care deeply, but don’t lose yourself.
Appreciate everything, but expect nothing to last forever.

When you loosen your grip,
you don’t love less —
you suffer less.

🌼 Peace begins where attachment ends.
The more you accept impermanence,
the freer and stronger your heart becomes.

12/03/2025

Interesting way to describe trauma responses.

11/16/2025

Welcome to my new office at 1980 N. Atlantic Avenue, Suite 813, Cocoa Beach, FL! I’m beyond grateful to have found such an amazing oceanside location. 🏝️

11/04/2025

Caring contact is medicine for body and soul. If someone—even a stranger—holds your hand while you’re frightened, the fear centers in your brain begin to quiet down. And when we’re at the end of our lives, looking back, it’s the moments of loving connection that shine most brightly. These are the times that give us meaning; the times when we are fully at home in the wholeness and tenderness of our being.

11/02/2025

Inspirology

10/29/2025

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09/12/2025

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Littlesunnydoodles

09/03/2025

Protect your peace 🍂

09/01/2025