Crescent Counselling Therapy

08/27/2025

We’re halfway through the week and if the best news you’ve gotten has been Taylor Swift’s engagement, take a moment to breathe and review these distress tolerance skills! 🫂

07/09/2025

Healing ❤️‍🩹

07/06/2025

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06/12/2025

Finding closure within yourself = healing ❤️‍🩹

06/07/2025

05/16/2025

Does your inner critic jump in when you are stressed? Notice this and take a moment to show yourself some kindness - your nervous system will thank you!

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a reminder to take a moment for ourselves when stress strikes. Our natural threat response can often lead to fight (self-criticism), flight (isolation), and freeze (rumination). But self-compassion offers a powerful antidote, helping us downregulate these responses and cultivate peace within.

By practicing kindness, mindfulness, and connecting with our shared humanity, we activate our care system (the tend and befriend response), reducing stress and fostering resilience.

Research shows that this shift into self-compassion can lower cortisol levels and increase heart rate variability, making us less defensive and more balanced.

This month, let’s prioritize mental well-being and show ourselves the kindness we need. Take a pause, place your hand on your heart, and remind yourself that you are worthy of care and compassion.

01/22/2025

Walk slowly, go farther.

12/19/2024

12/14/2024

Join us this holiday season for FREE grief support to learn strategies to navigate the holidays, learn meaningful coping tools, and be with others who are grieving and truly "get it".

12/11/2024

The holidays are difficult and stressful times for many - self-compassion can be a helpful way to respond. 💕

10/05/2024

How shame can look 💔
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09/07/2024

How do you interact with these thoughts when they arise? Thanks for these shifts to try…