InSpire Counseling, Ltd.

05/12/2022

05/12/2022

Hey, if you’re interested, I’ve begun sharing about stuff that I’ve learned and want to pass it on!

05/12/2022

05/12/2022

10/03/2020

Dr Daniel Amen, the leading brain imaging researcher, posted this recently and I thought it pass it on. Wisdom.

04/03/2020

It seems like I’m always co-learning with my clients! Today, experiencing joy and healing and goodness! So often we quickly leave that moment of joy, in fear that it will get taken away or that we can’t sustain the goodness, while only robbing us from the present moment. When we can pause, even for a moment, to receive the goodness or the joy or the peace, it actually begins to fill us! It then goes with us into the future for those times when we are not successful, when joy escapes us, when bad happens and even then, it has changed us. It gives us a glimmer of hope in the darkness, a bit of energy in the emptiness. It invites me to pause again, the next time I experience joy.

03/10/2020

Win/win! Although I understand it’s a business concept, I think it’s a concept that could empower and maybe even change all of our relationships! My husband brought it into my world and it has made such a difference! Win-win is the idea that whenever there are two or more parties in a conflict or difference, that all parties commit to finding a solution that everyone feels good about. This is very complex and is not easy. It requires distilling one’s want or need down to what’s most important, The essential need, to each person or each group. Then you dialogue or brainstorm back-and-forth to find a solution that meets both person’s need.  It promotes the idea that I don’t always get my way, nor does my partner. No one is spoiled or indulged and no one is abandoned or neglected! It holds unswervingly to the reality that if we do anything less than a win-win, it is a win-lose in the moment which in the end becomes a lose-lose for both parties. Win- win gives hope that we matter and that our needs are important and so are our partners! Sometimes, when we feel threatened or believe that we are in a situation where our needs are not considered, we become stubborn, self-centered, maybe even entitled and controlling, clearly, not the best part of us. Committing and holding to a win-win allows our brains to relax so they can problem solve and work toward a mutually kind, caring, and loving solution. Isn’t that the second (and like the first) greatest command: love your neighbor (or partner) as ourselves!

04/24/2019

Sometimes the most significant moments in life happen when we are simply.... sitting.... still. Darla

10/30/2017

This is a little diagram that came from my own experiences which I share with anyone who's interested in going down the "Narrow Road." Truly, it is more difficult road but the road to life!