Creative Resilience Counseling, LLC

10/26/2025

🟦 Introducing Sandtray Companion – Free to Try! 🟦

Bring the power of sand tray therapy online with Sandtray Companion – a HIPAA-compliant, digital platform designed for therapists and their clients.

✅ 200+ interactive miniatures
✅ Therapist + client portals
✅ Secure encryption for privacy
✅ Works in person or via telehealth

Perfect for licensed professionals and those under clinical supervision.
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10/26/2025

♟️✨ Introducing Cloud Chess – where strategy meets the sky!
Playing chess isn’t just a game—it sharpens memory, boosts problem-solving, and strengthens focus. Now you can train your brain, challenge smarter AI, and elevate your play… all in the cloud. ☁️

🧠 Think Higher. Play Smarter.

https://cloud-chess.lovable.app/game

10/24/2025

Comprehensive mental health resources directory linking students to 24/7 crisis hotlines, therapy apps, local support services, and credible educational websites nationwide.

An important app to keep bookmarked.

Student Hope Map: Mental Health Resources Directory

https://student-hope-map-mental-health.lovable.app/

10/23/2025

🧟‍♂️ Beware the Ad Hominem Monster! (Learning About Logical Fallacies) 🧟‍♀️

This nasty creature doesn’t attack ideas—it attacks people.
That’s the Ad Hominem (Abusive) fallacy: instead of proving someone wrong with logic, it hurls insults to distract from the real argument.

💬 Definition: Attacking the person making the argument rather than the argument itself.
⚠️ Why It’s a Problem: Name-calling never makes an idea weaker—it just derails the conversation.

Classic Example:
“You can’t trust Sarah’s opinion on climate change because she didn’t finish college.”
👉 The insult doesn’t actually touch the evidence—it just muddies the water.

Where We See It Today:
Scroll through politics on social media and you’ll spot this monster everywhere.
• “Don’t listen to him about healthcare—he’s an idiot.”
• “She’s too young/old to understand the economy.”
These are character attacks, not actual responses to policy arguments.

✨ Takeaway:
If you want to win an argument, tackle the idea, not the person.
When you spot this monster stomping around, ask:
• Am I focusing on the claim or the character?
• Would my argument stand no matter who said it?

👉 Slay the Ad Hominem Monster by debating ideas—not identities.

10/23/2025

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10/20/2025

What are logical fallacies?

Logical fallacies are tricks of bad thinking. They sound like they make sense, but if you look closely, they don’t. Imagine someone says:
• “If you don’t buy these sneakers, you’ll never be cool.”
That’s not true logic—it’s a fallacy. They’re trying to push you into believing something with feelings, fear, or confusion instead of facts.

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Why do they matter today?

Logical fallacies matter because we’re swimming in information—social media, ads, politics, even friends arguing at lunch. If we don’t spot fallacies, we might get tricked.
1. In politics: Leaders sometimes use fallacies to get votes. Example: “If you don’t agree with me, you must hate our country.” That’s a fallacy called a false dilemma—pretending only two choices exist when there are more.
2. In advertising: Commercials say things like “Everyone’s buying this toy, so you should too!” That’s the bandwagon fallacy—assuming something is good just because it’s popular.
3. In everyday life: A classmate might say, “You failed that test, so you’ll fail at life.” That’s called a slippery slope fallacy—imagining one small thing always leads to disaster.

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Why YOU should care

If you can spot fallacies, you get a kind of superpower: you can separate good arguments from sneaky ones. It’s like having x-ray glasses for bad thinking. You won’t be fooled as easily, and you can argue back with clear logic.

09/30/2025

🔍🕵️‍♂️ Feeling stuck on a tough problem? Channel your inner Inspector Gadget!

✨ Inhale = “gathering clues”
✨ Hold = “processing”
✨ Exhale = “solving the mystery”

Sometimes the smartest detective work starts with a single mindful breath. 🧩💨

09/29/2025

✨🧘‍♂️ Alakazam says: “Psychic awareness isn’t about predicting the future—it’s about staying present.”

Use your inner “psychic powers” to notice thoughts and feelings without letting them overwhelm you. Mindfulness = super effective. 💫🔮