Alicia Zielinski Straub MS, LPC, LLC

04/08/2020

I love this... Every day... take the time to ask:

1) What I am GRATEFUL for today?
2) Who am I CHECKING IN ON or CONNECTING WITH today?
3) What expectations of "normal" am I LETTING GO of today?
4 )How am I GETTING OUTSIDE today?
5) How am I MOVING MY BODY today?
6) What BEAUTY am I either creating, cultivating, or inviting in today?

Interesting how it takes an international crisis, for some of us - myself included - to break it down to what's really important... Stay well and breathe deep....

Another direct pass-through of six practical, wise, helpful suggestions from Brooke Anderson and Greater Good Science Center: As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, and efforts to “flatten the curve” through physical distancing intensify, many of us find ourselves quarantined at home. The physical is...

04/01/2020

Update - I am continuing to service clients via Telehealth through this critical period. If you know of someone in need of counseling services, please pass along my contact info. Remember we are never alone, even though sometimes it might feel that way.

732-500-6394
www.aliciazstraubcounseling.com

04/01/2020

Update - I am continuing to service clients via Telehealth through this critical period. If you know of someone in need of counseling services, please pass along my contact info. Remember we are never alone, even though sometimes it might feel that way.

732-500-6394
www.aliciazstraubcounseling.com

03/30/2020

https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a collective loss of normalcy.

03/25/2020

"This experience only served to reinforce what I was learning from my experiment with surrender. Something that started out looking totally disastrous had ended up with a positive result. Time and again I was seeing that if I could handle the winds of the current storms, they would end up blowing in some great gift. I was beginning to view these storms as harbingers to transformation. Perhaps change only takes place when there is sufficient reason to overcome the inertia of every day life. Challenging situations create the force needed to bring about change. The problem is that we generally use all the stirred-up energy intended to bring about change, to resist change. I was learning to sit quietly in the midst of the howling winds and wait to see what constructive action was being asked of me." - Michael Singer, The Surrender Experiment

03/25/2020

I highly recommend this book, The Surrender Experiment, by Michael Singer. It's amazing what can happen when we put our wants, demands, expectations, and inner mental chatter aside. I am beginning to see this as a lesson being presented in our own lives. There is possibly something awaiting out there, a world more positive and fulfilling than we can fathom. But we only know, what we know.... until we are willing to put that aside and surrender to how life unfolds... trusting we have within us what it takes to make the next best choice, take the next small step. I have been forced to let go of allot, if at least temporarily, and can you believe... it sort of feels peaceful. It's from this place that miracles birth. Sending love and healing, we all need it.

03/25/2020

08/06/2019

“I certainly do not ignore or minimize the hardships and tragedies of the world, but neither do I allow them to dominate.”

~ Norman Vincent Peale, from The Power of Positive Thinking

It's an ideal time to really begin applying this concept to our lives. Not to sound like Gandhi or anything, but if we each lived out the change we wanted to see, just imagine the transformations that would take place. It starts within each of us.

Focus on what's within your control, do something kind, positive, whatever... but remember negativity breeds negativity.

www.aliciazstraubcounseling.com

02/26/2019

"Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it!" - George Carlin, American Comedian.

How do you make sense of things?