Mindful Therapy for You, Rachel Howard- she/her LPC

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Mindful Therapy for You, Rachel Howard- she/her LPC updated their information in their About section.

Mindful Therapy for You, Rachel Howard- she/her LPC updated their information in their About section.

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Mindful Therapy for You: Counseling and Psychotherapy updated their information in their About section.

Mindful Therapy for You: Counseling and Psychotherapy updated their information in their About section.

Mindful Therapy for You: Counseling and Psychotherapy updated their website address.

Mindful Therapy for You: Counseling and Psychotherapy updated their website address.

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Great way to help your clients and patients get through the pandemic.

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Normal human responses to a global pandemic that do not need to be pathologized or treated as abnormal:

• Food and eating challenges & difficulties

• Resurgence of compulsive or addictive behaviours

• Obsessive or instrusive thoughts, memories or fears

• Generalised fear, anxiety, panic & overwhelm

• Depression, dissociation, shutdown, freeze, hopelessness

• Feelings of abandonment or loneliness or isolation

• Sense of loss of control or powerlessness. Feeling confused

• Anxiety around money, shelter, food, and other survival needs

• Past traumas being triggered, activated or re-experienced

• Health anxiety heightened (about Covid19 and otherwise)

• Feeling unheard or unseen amidst the flood of stories

• Feeling like existing chronic needs are being ignored

• Thoughts and feelings about death and dying

• New and old grief surfacing

• Feelings of anger, irritation and frustration

• Caring for everyone to own detriment. Compassion fatigue

• Feeling exhausted, fatigued, unmotivated, lethargic

• Hyper-focus, surges of energy, keeping 'doing' to distract

• Immune system depleted, other illnesses starting, chronic flares

(list not exhaustive)

AND if you do need support with any of it, that's okay too.

Sarah Mariann Martland

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Decolonizing mental health: The importance of an oppression-focused mental health system

I have always struggled with our western use of the DSM, medicating and modalities in therapy and let my clients be the expert in their experience while providing support. Great read.

"For Khúc, a decolonized mental health system would be one that allows communities to decide what is considered suffering, rather than having the system decide for them.

“When I say decolonizing, I want to question and interrogate the ways that these larger forces and institutions have told us what counts as mental health and what counts as suffering,” says Khúc. “In order to interrogate that, I have to draw on community and think about the kinds of knowledge that come out of our own communities around what suffering is.”
https://calgaryjournal.ca/more/calgaryvoices/4982-decolonizing-mental-health-the-importance-of-an-oppression-focused-mental-health-system.html?fbclid=IwAR3DgsdJQTaGss6ciD5SHXwpEa3kSZc6n6upYI4M3qrqSe-Nopd6j9d8uo4

Decolonizing mental health: The importance of an oppression-focused mental health system Reporting on the People, Issues, and Events that Shape our City - Calgary Journal Community Newspaper

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COVID-19 Information and Resources

Local resources
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qPyiN1eNI-XxqVBLHxtYbdb585U5fhK630-OXnI4T1U/edit?usp=drivesdk

COVID-19 Information and Resources This document is a collection of information and resources regarding COVID-19 in Austin,TX and is being updated regularly. For further questions, call 3-1-1. HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA VER EN ESPAÑOL EMERGENCY ORDERS Governor Abbott Executive Order Relating to COVID-19 Preparedness and Mitigation- iss...

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Worth does not equal productivity

Tiny Snek Comics is le sauce

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Beautiful illustration of therapy. Happy Friday. Ilaria Urbinati.

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Managing Your Distress in the Aftermath of a Shooting

Distress from the shootings are coming up for people in my life in and out of the office. Here is an article that lists a few good tips to help in this time:

https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/mass-shooting

Managing Your Distress in the Aftermath of a Shooting You may be struggling to understand how a mass shooting could take place in a community, even a workplace or military base, and why such a terrible thing would happen.

Self-care visual.

8 Things Toxic Mothers Do

Signs of toxic parents:
"If you have found yourself setting boundaries and then tearing them down, going low or no contact and then reinstating communication once again only to be faced with the same scripts, know that you’re not alone."

8 Things Toxic Mothers Do Marginalizing, scapegoating, and more.

Photos from Institute of Child Psychology's post

Weighted Blankets and Lap Pads

For anyone looking for those weighed blankets, handmade and custom!

Weighted Blankets and Lap Pads Local hand made weighted blankets and lap pads.

Some kind and compassionate coping statements you can tell yourself when feeling anxious.

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Mindful Therapy for You: Counseling and Psychotherapy updated their business hours.

Mindful Therapy for You: Counseling and Psychotherapy updated their business hours.

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Hope and mourning in the Anthropocene: Understanding ecological grief

Ecological grief is something that keeps coming up in my sessions:

"Climate change, and the associated impacts to land and environment, for example, have recently been linked to a range of negative mental health impacts, including depression, suicidal ideation, post-traumatic stress, as well as feelings of anger, hopelessness, distress, and despair"

Hope and mourning in the Anthropocene: Understanding ecological grief Ecological grief - the mourning that takes place when we lose parts of the natural world - is likely to affect more of us in the future.