08/25/2024
Hello! I’s been a while since I’ve regularly shared information on social media (okay maybe I’ve never really done this consistently or in a personal way) and here I am, posting again…two days in a row....let me share a little more..
So, let me re-introduce myself (or officially introduce myself here), I’m Christina or Chris Diesen, the founder and lead therapist at Anxiety and Stress Relief Center and consultant and educator at Solutions 4 Wellness. Me and my business have grown in many ways over the last decade and for that I’m grateful. This also has brought me to be thoughtful in many areas of life where I hadn't given much consideration.
While I’m passionate about learning and assisting the person bending the professional title, supporting all ‘flavors’ of caregivers and helping the over functioning and under functioning, find relief from minor to major life concerns. I help bridge pathways for doable solutions at the intersection of mindset, behavior, relationship and physical health, discover, create and live a life worth living.
I’m also a student right alongside those I help guide. As I have learned to address and find relief from common, yet seemingly unresolvable concerns, I’ve learned the theory and practice of many effective, yet not commonly known, ways to help others as well.
It’s common for people to think that life is simply living in a state of low grade misery or overwhelm, to easily think that it is ‘just the way it is’ and that there’s ‘nothing you can do about it.’ I’m not immune to this and if I’m not taking care of myself it’s easy for this thinking to secretly slip in. Yet, with useful and effective skills (that we honestly should have been taught early in life), there’s also messages that the pain, problem or stuck point has to offer, beyond being stressed, stuck, sick or miserable...and if we don't learn to listen to them, the messages can lead us to living the same day over and over and eventually lead to physical sickness.
For example, while maybe not that major of an issue, but still an issue, I came to recently realize that my mindset about consuming and sharing info on social media, was one of these low grade misery themes. I had ideas that if I put too much out into the world, it could easily be misunderstood or p**s someone off (because honestly I know it can be hard to hear) and that it would be hard to take criticism or feedback… or that maybe it would appear as being boastful…or a time waste, energy drainer and so forth.
After recognizing, addressing and shifting the idea of putting info out publicly, what had been more of a dreadful and draining belief system, I now can see it as an act of kindness or one of service, if I do it with clear intention. Now I am more able to see that the more I share, the more it can be of benefit (with the old lens, I couldn’t really take this in before).
In addition, they say, "how we do one thing is how we do everything" and as I write this, I've also come to even more clearly recognize that I have a tendency to keep quiet about the amazing things I get to do and have come to know professionally. I've become pretty seasoned in a range of stress and anxiety related topics, such as trauma resolution, grief, family discord cutoff/estrangement from both sides of the equation, complex trauma, professional burnout, how relationships impact our physical health, codependency, high conflict relationships, high control personalities and groups, emotional and spiritual bypassing recovery, medically unresolvable symptom relief and how our relationships and stress are a direct determining factor to our physical health, to name a few.
So, the ‘inner critic’ that can live inside of my mind, can kindly take a backseat and know that the best part of me will be sharing more as an act of service. I don’t have to take it so personal or even personal at all, if I choose not to … I now know how to make it a choice, rather than a belief I didn't even know I was making true that actually isn't.
While I help bridge pathways for solutions with mindset, behavior, physical symptoms and relationship health through a systematic wellness perspective to discover, create and live a life worth living, I’m also a student right alongside those I help guide.
As I find myself more able to create space, I’ll share motivational and inspirational ideas, as well as well as more of what I’ve come to know about taking better self care, more so from the inside out, so we can live a satisfying life. While this platform doesn't provide the opportunity for the application of the tools, it can get you informed about them, to see if you'd like to find out more. So stay tuned for more perspectives of a small town relationship and trauma therapist, who's also just trying to figure it out and do good in the world.
So, I’d love it if you let me know in the comments or drop it in a DM what you’re finding helpful in your self care or looking to know more about, as National Wellness Month winds down. (Remember being well shouldn't just be a focus for a month)
