Jenn Fredericks - New Beginnings Counselling

11/08/2022

Some of my favorite Emotional Self-Care Tips 🌟
What are some of yours - share below 💕

05/09/2022

Hello Monday 🌞
Let's start the week off with one of my favorite coping strategies for challenging negative thoughts. We know, we all have these pesky little thoughts that like to take over, keep floating around and create chaos in our mind and often making us feel bad about our selves.

Below are a few questions to challenge them.

Remember, we are not our thoughts and not all of these thoughts are factual.

Remember to show yourself grace when these thoughts pop up and try to rent space in your 🧠

Love & Light 🌟

04/01/2022

Hello Friday 💫
Grounding tools can be very useful for anyone & can help bring someone back into the here & now if their mind or body has drifted into the past or they have dissociated.

There are many tools out there, I particularly like this one because it requires people to tune into & reconnect with their senses, bringing them back into the moment 🤍

03/31/2022

Let's take a check ✔️
Things that can contribute to anxiety & actually increase it.

03/31/2022

Hello Incredible Humans 💫
It's been a little while since I've showed up here and shared.

There has been a tug on my heart to show up here more often and share tips, encouragement, tools, and speed love and light 🌟

Here is a little reminder to be gentle with yourself!
Give yourself a pat on the back.
You are doing the best you can.
Be where you are, as you are 💫

02/01/2021

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01/14/2021

We are only a few weeks into January and the feelings have been all over the place!
Whose with me 🙋‍♀️

I am trying to remind myself each day (especially on them difficult days) it's okay to embrace the scary feelings as well as the happy feelings. Whether I'm sad, anxious, frustrated, or scared I want to be able to fully feel everything and continue to learn how to handle it in a healthy way. It's a struggle for sure, for many of us!

Know that you will get there!

So whatever you may be feeling, especially with all that is happening around us in the world and in our own community, I want you to allow yourself to feel it out! 💕💕

12/10/2020

This 💖

Is most often the truth!

Who felt this 💓

11/30/2020

Failure Is Success In Progress ✨ Keep Going!

💞

11/23/2020

As a therapist and a trauma Survivor, I truly know how hard recovery is.
Have I made it, hell no.
I'm healing everyday 💕
This isn't a destination, it's a journey and a process.

𝙆𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙜𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨! 🙌

11/10/2020

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So, I have anxiety.

I've always had it I think. There have been seasons that it's come in waves so strong and fast it knocked me off my feet. There has also been seasons of unexplainable calm and peace.

Sometimes anxiety feels like all my senses are turned up too high. Every noise is too loud. Every touch is too rough. Every light is too bright.

Sometimes anxiety has made me silent and frozen. I feel trapped in a prison of my own fear, unable to cry out for help.

Sometimes anxiety makes normal life feel overwhelming. Everything is too much. Cleaning the mess is too much, doing the laundry is too much, paying the bills is too much.

Sometimes anxiety makes me unable to handle (read) the news or even have certain conversations with friends because if I do my mind will spin out of control.

Sometimes anxiety causes me to feel physically ill, like headaches, stomach aches, and knots in my back and neck from stress.

Sometimes anxiety feels like being completely alone in a room full of people.

Sometimes anxiety causes panic attacks so strong I can't breath and I begin to sob uncontrollably wherever I'm at (even I'm in the grocery store).

Sometimes anxiety makes me unable to sleep.

Sometimes anxiety makes me on edge and impatient with my family. That's my least favorite symptom I think.

You know what else having anxiety means?

It means I will never judge someone in the middle of a battle with mental health.

I will never wonder why she's not happy when she has so much to be thankful for.

I will never wonder why my friend who is struggling isn't calling me back.
I will never wonder why she is so scared about something that seems unreasonable.

The thing is anxiety sucks. It really does. But the more we talk about it the more we'll realize we're not alone.

Right now my seas are peaceful and calm, but sister, if you're in the middle of a big storm I'm holding space for you because I get it.

Love,
Jess

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