Sommer Seitz Counseling

11/20/2023

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09/26/2022

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08/11/2021

I hope you will check out my latest podcast.

Podcast: Getting Out of Your Way. Join me in learning how to "choose in" to what you wish to create. Learn to recognize your blocks and be invited to expand and clear your beliefs, emotions, and energies that are stored in your mind and body that do not serve you. Come learn how to be further aligne...

01/13/2021

Come join our Intention this year with multiple mediums to support you!

12/22/2020

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Learn how feelings of division or separation with those to whom we seek meaningful connection can contribute to our loneliness. Come sit at our table and enjoy a candid conversation between two friends as we discuss ways to address these challenges, and how we personally have addressed feelings of d...

12/11/2020

Help you beat those winter blue! Please share it with someone you can lift this season.

Winter is not the easiest of seasons. While I love the holiday cheer and the beautiful white of newly fallen snow here in the Northwest, it’s also colder and darker and that can trigger seasonal depression for me. Can you relate?

This year with Covid restrictions on top of it, I have found the 3Ms of Music, Meditation, and Movement not to just be a good practice, but a lifeline.
🎶 MUSIC has the ability to raise the frequency at which your body vibrates. Music affects our body of a deep cellular level so picking music with high energy, that inspires and lifts us, has proven to help us reset our mood.
🏃‍♂️ MOVEMENT has the ability to help us move energy out and through our bodies. Emotion is energy in motion and needs outlet to move up, out, and through us. I listen to what my body craves, sometimes is a harder workout that really gets my energy up and sometimes its gentle like yoga and pilates to gently release and care for myself.
🧘‍♀️ MEDITATION, is like taking medication, meditate or medicate is the new buzz phrase. If you struggle to quiet your mind and experience the joy in a moment this is for you (understanding that for some medication will be needed companion to it) The key is being intentionally pausing from busy daily life, connecting to breathe, and allowing your mind and body to relax. I often combine this practice with prayer, yoga, setting intentions with my Source and it allows me to respond to life's challenges versus react.

This winter try the 3Ms for 30 days, they have been proven to change your view on the world and my hope is to allow you to feel the light and love of this winter season.

12/09/2020

Hope you will check out my new blog post!

Now is the season for “wintering”! Learn what the winter season teaches us.

11/27/2020

My life's work!

Healed & Freed to Live from Joy Seminar by Sommer A. Seitz, MA, LMHC and Dr. Crystal N. Dayton, DC, CAc via Whole Women Link.

11/07/2020

Let’s talk about something called “empathic failure.” This is a kind of failure that happens when we are unable to hold space for another person’s pain, perspective, and/or experience. In today’s climate with so much going on in the world I have felt this, and I’m betting a lot of you have as well.

I love the work of when it comes to the difference between empathy and sympathy. Empathy fuels connection and requires us to get in touch with the part of us that can feel what another person may be feeling. Empathy recognizes the prospective of another as their truth, and holds space for that without judgement, which is difficult because our ego loves judgement. Sympathy on the other hand drives disconnection by seeking to give advice, make the moment about you, and conveys shame around what the other person is experiencing by distancing ourselves from it. This can be done by changing the subject, offering quick solutions, or being condescending to the other person. Oh how I have struggled with this! I have learned that empathetic failure for me is due to my avoidance of my own inner experience of struggle. Recognizing this helps me to be mindfully aware and allows me to better connect with others. How do you deal with empathetic failure? I would love to hear!

10/14/2020

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Masks. This is a word I think if when pondering on mental health, especially right now during . We all wear masks, but especially those that suffer with mental health. When you think of a person suffering from depression, anxiety, or any other mental health related issue what do you think of? Do you think of someone crying, tucked under the bed in extreme sadness? Or do you think of someone laughing and looking happy? Well, I’m here to tell you it is both.

Life is a dance of competing opposites. The extent in which we can experience pain is also the extent in which we can experience joy. So many of us hide behind false masks that hide the truth of what we are feeling. And often shame and isolation are at the root of every mental health disorder.

Embracing your full spectrum of emotions and showing those to the world can help you embrace your authentic self. We are not our feelings, but as we acknowledge them, share them, and say “I am enough" we start to find our way through our pain. Our pain often leads us to our purpose and its just the opposite end of a beautiful polarity! This week hug on your fear, give voice to your shame, and bring it out into the light! Your mental health will thank you. I encourage you to share this important message with those you love.

09/22/2020

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Peace. Balance. True Self. What do these three things have in common? They can all be born of stillness. In the midst of quieting our bodies and minds, there is a great power to bring joy. Here we find peace, we feel balanced, and with that we can greet our true higher selves.

I have been pondering the power of stillness for quite some time, and as such, that is the topic I would like to talk to you about this week. As a mental health professional I have seen how mindfulness practices can help people who feel dis-regulated emotions find balance and regulation. Finding stillness can teach each of us how to respond to our emotions versus letting them control us. It can calm our minds, and bring us back to a place of happiness, a place of peace. And in that space, the true glorious essence of our beings can be explored.

Stillness can be hard to find in times of turmoil. However, we often have even more of a need to connect, and feel balanced during these times. How are you finding moments of stillness in your life right now? I would love to hear your thoughts as we could all use a little more joy in our lives!

06/09/2020

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