Renew Counseling Services LLC

09/02/2020

Relationships. Time and again healing from trauma comes back to relationships. 👨‍👩‍👦💕⁠⠀
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What relationships are you cultivating? How do your relationships support your healing journey?⁠⠀
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05/14/2020

Focus on what you can control.🌿 Loss of predictability can lead to overwhelming feelings. Our brains do best when we can predict and anticipate an outcome or result. In this current climate of “stay home” and social distancing😷, our world is constantly shifting with new expectations and new losses, which can lead to increased anxiety, depression, and trigger our flight, fight, or freeze response. 🧠 Combat the loss of predictability by focusing on what you can control. 🎯

👉Set or maintain a daily schedule, even if you are home all day or your day looks different. What can you control?

👉Create a routine or rhythm that helps ground you. What do you enjoy doing?

👉Make a list of activities you can do and pencil something fun in your calendar to look forward to. What are you doing this weekend?

👉Notice uncomfortable feelings and give yourself space to label them. This improves your ability to respond to unpredictable circumstances instead of react. How are you feeling right now?

05/11/2020

Let’s talk about trauma. 👩🏻‍🏫 Trauma isn’t just an event. Many times we talk about it as a one-time thing that happened and is now done. For someone who is a trauma survivor 💪🏼, it’s not always “done”. In fact, during trauma the brain often cannot cope with what is happening, leading to anger, anxiety, or dissociation, more readily know as fight, flight, or freeze. After the event, the brain 🧠 might confuse a safe situation with an unsafe one, 🛑 ✋🏻 activating the fight, flight, or freeze response.

We all have experienced events that leave our brains in survival mode. The hope is we also can build resiliency that allows us to bounce back from negative experiences. Positive relationships 👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏼, growing up in a safe and stable environment 🏡, developing a sense of “I matter” 🧑🏽‍🏫, and becoming self-aware can all help us build resiliency.

Counseling can help strengthen resiliency to trauma and stress through building healthy coping skills, processing past hurts, and becoming more self-aware of emotional experiences.

03/25/2020

We are now offering Telehealth sessions to ensure our clients can all get the care they need at this time.

Visit our website to schedule your FREE 15 minute consultation.

02/14/2020

Choosing to work on your own healing can have a positive impact for future generations beyond the benefits you would see for yourself. Counseling can help provide a safe place to start or continue your healing journey.

Epigenetics is proving that trauma changes genes influencing mental health. The bad news is that it can be inherited. The good news is that it can be reversed.

10/15/2019

Healing takes hard work. Being brave isn't defined by how we feel, but by how willing we are to commit to the journey of healing.

08/29/2019

Burying our emotional wounds doesn’t mean they go away. They just show up again in other ways that we would never expect, stronger and more painful than before. Ignoring them doesn’t work, but digging into the issue to uncover the root of the problem can feel scary. You don’t have to do it alone. Call today for a free consultation. 509-676-6735‬