Goodwin Counseling

12/09/2022

Like sand through an hourglass, so are the Bailey Middle School Career Fairs. There are few things more joyful than banter with 8th graders about their future careers. Here’s hoping some of you become mental health providers. And may you all make your mental health a priority. There is a whole profession dedicated to it! Thanks for Lorie Frels and Chewy for the invite. Keep doing God’s work.

01/22/2022

Good article.

Psychologists weigh in.

11/01/2021

I recently had the honor of speaking at Westlake High School on "All Things ADHD." I cover diagnosis, treatment and medications (with the disclaimer that I do not prescribe medications!) I hope it is helpful.

02/25/2021

This is a wonderful article. Are we chronically depressed and anxious? Or are we naturally responding to the weight of increasing external pressures? I'd love to know your thoughts on this article.

It used to be okay to admit that the world had simply become too much.

05/24/2020

What would add to this Emergency Care Wall? I’d add the Bob Newhart Show for a daily laugh! I used to watch it with my parents as a kid. Probably one reason I became a therapist.

03/28/2020

https://chopracentermeditation.com/experience
And this one...free!!! Thank you, Oprah and Deepak.

Hope in Uncertain Times. Register for free!

03/28/2020

https://www.udemy.com/course/heal-anxiety-sleep-easily-tara-brach/
Tara Brach's Mindfulness for Anxiety and Sleep is free on Udemy for the next two days. She is an expert in meditation and a calm voice in any storm. !

Learn Practices that Help Reduce Stress and Calm Fears

03/27/2020

https://vimeo.com/399733860
I love this video!!! Certainly we all have a lot of anxiety about COVID-19. Dr. David Price does a fantastic job of explaining the virus- how it’s spread, what do if you or a loved one contracts it, and addresses a whole host of other questions. It is most certainly worth 57 minutes of your time. He’s a brave and heroic doctor for sure! Many thanks to my sister-in-law for this connect.

Dr. David Price of Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City shares information in a Mar. 22 Zoom call with family and friends on empowering and protecting families…

03/20/2020

Today I want to introduce Quigong. In Chinese medicine fear corresponds with the kidney and bladder system. Science has proven that emotions are stored in the body, and according to Chinese medicine, much of our fear is stored in the kidneys and bladder. Quigong claims to squeeze these emotions out of the body and help achieve a peaceful state. We are now in charge of boosting our immune system, so let's get creative on trying to stay healthy. If you have any experience with Quigong, I'd love to hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyINAjEoTIs&t=47s

Feel your QI! This complete YOQI qigong flow routine designed for beginners to purge, tonify, regulate and circulate your qi. View over 50 more YOQI video ro...

03/19/2020

Be Still (from the Prayer Life Workshop by Ignacio Larranaga)

How good it is to pause!
Lord, I would like to slow down right now.
Why so much commotion?
Why so much frenzy?
I do not know how to stop.
I have forgotten to pray.
Now I close my eyes and
Want to talk to you, Lord.
I wish to open up myself to your universe, but my eyes
Cannot bear to stay closed.

I feel a frantic agitation
Invade my whole body:
It comes and goes, a prisoner of haste.
Lord, I would like to stop right now.
Why such a hurry?
Why such unrest?
I cannot save the world.

I am merely a drop of water
In the immense ocean
Of your marvelous creation.
What is really important
Is to seek your presence.
What is really important
Is to stop from time to time,
And to proclaim your Greatness,
Your Beauty, your Splendor,and your Love.
What is urgent is to listen to and to let you
Speak within me,
To live in the depths of things
And to take time to constantly look for you in
the silence of your mystery.

My heart continues to beat, but in a different way.
I am doing nothing.
I am not hurrying.
I am simply before you, Lord.
And how good it is to be before you. Amen

03/18/2020

This is a fantastic interview about Mental Health and the Coronavirus by Dr. Ahmad Raza, professor of psychiatry at UTSW Brain Institute. Worth your time.

Dr. Ahmad Raza, professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern’s joins us to talk about COVID-19 anxiety and how we can both calm ourselves and care for others.

03/18/2020

https://youtu.be/l_m3WsVsozk
Hi, in light on this strange new world we find ourselves in, I’d like to do some posts arounds Anxiety and Coronavirus. I hope it is helpful. These are hard times for everyone, but we can endure. Here’s to hope and discipline. Cheers!

Amy Goodwin LPC-S discusses the negative mind, anxiety and the Coronavirus.

01/11/2020

Thank you, KXAN, for letting me talk about a favorite topic, Children’s Mental Health!

08/30/2019

Not to promote a particular religion, but I love this concept of the importance of compassion and caring for others as a way to combat alienation and loneliness.

There is a story about The Beatles lead guitarist, George Harrison, that has stuck with me since I was just a kid...

05/19/2019

Love this!

04/10/2019

https://www.everydayhealth.com/columns/therese-borchard-sanity-break/april-cruelest-month-depressed-anxious-spring/
A very interesting take on Spring Fever.

I just spent the afternoon on discussion boards of health websites reading about the different reasons people become depressed and anxious in the spring.