Cardinal Counseling Services - Donna Liu LPC

03/24/2026

It takes courage to heal. Therapy should be a part of our regular self care routine. Just like going to the doctor, the dentist, the gym, or the hair salon, therapy is self care for your body, mind and spirit. We all have childhood wounds that interfere with our relationship with ourself and others. Therapy is a safe place to unpack old messages we got as children that just do not work anymore, or are causing us to REACT in negative ways, instead of RESPONDING in healthy ways. If you are holding onto anger, unforgiveness, feelings of low self worth, or if you find yourself snapping at the ones you love the most....pause and consider finding a therapist you are comfortable with who can walk the journey of healing with you. Therapists do not "fix" you, but they do give you a safe confidential place to unpack your stories and the tools to heal yourself. I promise you, your relationships at home, with friends, at work, will all improve. You are worth the time and effort it takes to heal. 💔🙏❤🥰

03/17/2026

03/16/2026

WORD

03/08/2026

Have the courage to heal....you are worth it!

03/08/2026

YES YOU ARE!!! ❤️

03/07/2026

And what a privilege it is to walk this journey with my courageous clients. 🙏

03/05/2026

MY DECLARATION OF SELF-ESTEEM – VIRGINIA SATIR

I AM ME.......
In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me.
There are persons who have some parts like me, but no one adds up exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone chose it.

I own everything about me – my body, including everything it does; my mind, including all its thoughts and ideas; my eyes, including the images of all they behold; my feelings, whatever they may be – anger, joy, frustration, love, disappointment, excitement; my mouth, and all the words that come out of it, polite, sweet or rough, correct or incorrect; my voice, loud or soft; and all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself.
I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears.
I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes.

Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By doing so I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts. I can then make it possible for all of me to work in my best interests.

I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know. But as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for the solutions to the puzzles and for ways to find out more about me.
However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is me. This is authentic and represents where I am at that moment in time.

When I review later how I looked and sounded, what I said and did, and how I thought and felt, some parts may turn out to be unfitting. I can discard that which is unfitting, and keep that which proved fitting, and invent something for that which I discarded.

I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me.

I own me, and therefore I can engineer me.
I am me and I am okay.

(Virginia Satir, Peoplemaking, 1972)

03/03/2026

Inter-generational trauma is in our DNA....the trauma stops when we can take a look at our roots and heal our own woundedness. This takes courage and a safe place to process the pain. Find a therapist your body, mind and heart feels safe with and do the work together. You are worth it!

02/23/2026

Do you believe you are worthy of Love and Belonging?

Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.