Growth Mindset, LLC

01/03/2025

Happy New Year! I am excited to see the changes in others and myself for 2025. I can’t wait to meet new people and further mental health for the Montana community this year.

04/16/2024

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07/18/2023

What is manifestation?

A bit of a loosely used term in current times, manifestation is the essence of exhibiting a thought pattern or process into a hopeful dream-filled and intentional way. It creates empowerment by filling a void and creating a thought pattern of certain desire coming to fruition; often called a self-fulfilling prophecy. That which is wished (either for or against) can have a tendency to appear.

'Manifesting', as it is often termed, is creating the ability for your dreams to come true. It is similar to prayer, or hope; but manifestation has a way of giving you individualized assent and sheer will to accomplish the goal you have, acquire the skills, or funds, and puts good vibrations into the world in a way that is special and unique to you personally.

By manifesting issues that we struggle with: big ones, small ones, fantasy, or expectation, we gain control and once again fervently appreciate the life we have, and allow our energy to emanate positivity and creation.

If you are struggling, or have a tendency to speak poorly of your situation or yourself, try manifesting bright thoughts. Try manifesting gratitude. Try manifesting your fervent. Try manifesting your ideals and thus, your destiny. You have an immense amount of control over your life. Seize the day, and manifest your reality.

Live in prayer, take care of your body, treat your family with love, care, and respect, and most of all, allow yourself room to adopt and apply a Growth Mindset.

Jesse Alcorn M.S. LCPC is owner of Growth Mindset, LLC psychotherapy and counseling.

06/05/2023

What makes water powerful?

Water is full of life and characteristics. It is dexterous, agile, transparent, immaculate, flexible, everchanging, strong, deep, connected, generous, nutritious, and necessary to all living things.

Given the extent of the possibilities in which water possesses through its innate nature, the man who created vitamin C said,

“Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, M.D.

If water is life, and WE are life, then not only do we require water but how can we BE more like water? How can we be flexible, strong, connected? A plant cannot have growth without water. A Growth Mindset requires sustenance as well. It requires continuous nourishment, continuous adaptation to its environment, continued sun and WATER.

If you want to adopt a Growth Mindset, first look inward into how your life is powerful like water; generous, necessary, full of possibilities and wonder. Everchanging. Nourish your mind, body, and soul with water to wet the soil of your Growth Mindset.

Jesse Alcorn M.S. LCPC is owner of Growth Mindset, LLC psychotherapy and counseling.

06/01/2023

New logo design on my business cards. The business is slowly growing. I’m so grateful for everyone who has helped me along. Very excited to continue to help the people of Montana

06/01/2023

Summertime Sadness

Seasonal change in disposition is not only extremely common, but at times a bit pervasive. As the transition happens from autumn to winter, or spring to summer, people often feel emotional complexity or inadequacies that don't typically reflect their emotional state during seasonal tranquility, habituation or adaptation. It is similar to when people start to notice their hands become more dry or their allergies require more antihistamines to subdue.

Naturally, the seasons add a rather vicious and calculated component to our mental health, albeit not always a negative one. As the sun shines for longer hours, sustaining us with more vitamin D, or the winter solstice gives us an opportunity to linger in sweats and drink hot tea in the early evening; both have an impact on our mental state.

As we transition now into the Summer months, my clients typically feel a sense of reprieve for seasonal depression-like symptomology. Typically, the months to which they feel a displacement and dissonance in neurotransmitters seem to hit during the colder months with less light, social interaction, and energy - with an increase during the warmer months with warmer weather, more light, and greater social interaction/energy.

As we all transition to brighter sky's and warmer weather, remember to remind yourself of the beauty of that which is the ever adapting mentality and mindset of your brain. It can recognize sun, Vitamin D, length of days, better sleep, warmer weather, and naturally acquiesces to a better adaptation of sleep, spirituality, relationships, and patience. Remember that our innate state of seasonal adaptation is also a component of the complexity of our mentality.

A Growth Mindset ensures your transformation and ability for the change in emotions related to seasons and prepares one for the acknowledgement of the change by adopting skills, knowledge, preparedness, and mental flexibility.

If you struggle with seasonal shifts or mental flexibility related to season change, now is your time to take control and reach out for help. You have the power to enact change. You have to ability to adopt a Growth Mindset.

Jesse Alcorn M.S. LCPC is owner of Growth Mindset, LLC psychotherapy and counseling.

05/25/2023

Locus of Control

Do you believe you are in control of your life? Or that external forces play more of a role in your existential script? While determining the correct decision or perceived outcome, how receptive are you to prudence and pragmatism? While conversely, how spiritually inclined are you - allowing the shifting of the world and circumstance derive your outcome, as if the trench has been orchestrated by blueprint and pre-excavated for you?

Having a strong internal locus of control is related to high levels of self-efficacy; essentially your ability to perform. While having a high external locus of control allows for an individual to have deeply-rooted ties to spirituality and a bit of luck.

In my opinion, leaning in either direction of LOC is not inherently 'good' or 'bad'. Rather, it is suggestive on your personality, your career and family decisions, and your faith; whether in yourself or something much grander than you.

Try to recognize what type of locus of control you identify more strongly with and the WHY behind it. Then play your tape back. How has the type of LOC helped you navigate difficult scenarios or help me mentally express gratitude. What components of your LOC contribute to your success or failures?

Regardless, similarly to most things in life, having a balance between the two is typically the most effective way of navigating decision-making and proper planning for the trajectory of one's life. Remember that we have so much control over our lives and also, at times, very little, where something much greater than us does. This is key in adopting a Growth Mindset. For the sake of suggesting the flowering and propagating of a topic such as locus of control, I included a lotus below and will now be changing the term for us to lotus of control. Take charge of your life in the areas you can, express gratitude toward the outcome you had little control over, and keep moving forward with perseverance and strength with a healthy mind, body, and soul.

05/22/2023

The power of memory.

Our brains are unique in that they thrive on the caliber of the emotions to concrete our memory. The stronger the emotions, the stronger the memory. This is great when we remember catching our first fish, or competing in our first race. It becomes infinitely more cumbersome when we remember the first time we were yelled at, or our first breakup.

Unfortunately, there isn't much we can do to change the way we remember or how strongly we remember certain things from our past. However, there are strategies to improve upon the impact it has on your life today. We often compartmentalize or shy away from "unpacking" those more difficult memories. They then have a lingering component on who we are at present. Talking with someone can award you the opportunity to confront that memory vault, open it up, and recognize some of those difficult memories and work on healing through them.

You don't have to be a product of your past. Your memories don't have to feel like a prison where unpleasant memories have more power over you than conscious thought. Where you no longer have to dance around or walk on egg shells with yourself! Talk it out. Learn to face your past and no longer be a victim to the lock box. Seek freedom. Seek a Growth Mindset.

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Jesse Alcorn M.S. LCPC is owner of Growth Mindset, LLC psychotherapy and counseling.

05/20/2023

How can I better control my emotions? A very common inquiry from my clients. Emotional Intelligence is having an understanding and appropriate application or access to your emotions. A Harvard article says,

"Emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, as well as recognize and influence the emotions of those around you. The term was first coined in 1990 by researchers John Mayer and Peter Salovey, but was later popularized by psychologist Daniel Goleman".

We all have those periods of influx, blunted, exuberant, or flight or emotions. Sometimes they are joyous and glee derived, other times they manifest as aggression and rage.

I like to view emotional intelligence as access to the easiest and most prominent 'emotion' categories comprised of eight types: Happy, Mad, Fear, Sad, Disgust, Surprise, Anxiety, Guilt/Shame. I then picture them each filled with water having an equal amount of accessible liquid within. As we fluctuate from low levels of water, for instance: sad=depression; or a high amount of water, surprise=shock. The idea is to get them to eb and flow accordingly.

To achieve appropriate emotional intelligence, you will have to do exploration of how your feelings impact your decision-making as well as your behaviors. A high emotional intelligence will allow you to become accurately expressive to others, challenge your own defeating beliefs, be courageous in negative situations, or experience merry within the correct context.

People recognize that those who have high emotional intelligence often exude power and control over themselves while identifying with others and being empathetic. They typically don't have as much vacillating between extremes, and can typically be calm or emotionally expressive in the best ways that make sense to the majority of people.

Work on controlling and exploring your emotions to improve your emotional intelligence. Your life with improve significantly. Better workplace interactions. Better relationships. Higher self-esteem; the benefits are endless. Always continue to strive for a Growth Mindset.

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Jesse Alcorn M.S. LCPC is owner of Growth Mindset, LLC psychotherapy and counseling.

05/19/2023

Have a little cry.

Set yourself free. Be emotionally expressive. Engage in self care - you don't always have to have the answers. Pray. Talk to your loved ones about your issues. Speak positively to yourself. Identify a plan. Meditate on gratitude for the little things. Pet your dog. Hug your kid. Take a nap.

Life isn't permanently on a downslope. Sometimes we go through ups and downs, or trials, and it feels never ending. The most positive people I have met who have gone through some of the longest and brutal trials can find the sun amongst their clouds. You will pass this storm. You will foster growth. You will be successful. You will overcome.

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Jesse Alcorn M.S. LCPC is owner of Growth Mindset, LLC psychotherapy and counseling.

05/18/2023

I am BEYOND excited to announce my full-featured website is officially open to the world! I cannot thank my brilliant and talented brother, Dan Rickman enough for his help and support in the development of www.growthmindsetmt.com PLEASE check it out, share it, look at it and show it lots of love. I would appreciated tons of comments and likes so we can get this bad boy out to the people who are in need of someone to talk to. If you are potential client, I am excited to have the opportunity to work with you! Let me know what you all think!

I am a person-centered clinician helping people shift perspective of their situation by learning and developing skills for their issues to create overall wellness and holistic life improvements.