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10/11/2025

🌍 Mindfulness Around the World, Stop 3: Cacao Ceremonies in Costa Rica 🍫🇨🇷

In Costa Rica, cacao ceremonies are spiritual, healing activities which involve many people gathering to drink cacao and connect more deeply with themselves and each other.

❓What can we learn?

These ceremonies originated partially due to the nutritional benefits of the cacao plant itself (unlike the sugary chocolates we eat today).

That being said, taking the time to simultaneously nourish your body and connect with people can boost your mental and physical health. 🌱

⭐️ Today, consider:
- Creating a tradition of drinking coffee or tea (or hot chocolate!) with your partner in the morning
- Inviting a couple friends or family members over to cook a nutritious dinner and enjoy it together
- Bringing some chocolates to enjoy with friends or coworkers at lunch

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10/06/2025

Self-Care Seed of the Day #8: Relaxing Bath 🛁

Our busy schedules often prevent us from being present as we take quick showers, barely even noticing the feel of the water. 🚿

A bath can give you the time to fully relax your mind and body, releasing stress and tension.

👉 Try this:
Tonight, treat yourself to a bath complete with your favorite soap and some relaxing music. 🧼 🎶

Practice sitting with your thoughts, allowing them to come and go instead of trying to fight or change them.

Use this as an opportunity to be more .

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10/04/2025

🌍 Mindfulness Around the World, Stop 2: Ngoma in Central and Southern Africa 🪘🎶

Ngoma is a tradition that uses rhythm and music to bring people together and provide social support with the incorporation of drums and the guidance of a spiritual leader.

❓What can we learn?
Mindfulness doesn’t only come in the form of quiet activities. Music and movement can bring you into the present too, helping you feel more relaxed and focused. 🔊💃

⭐️ Today, consider:
- Learning a new dance with your friend — or even with your pet! 🪩
- Playing an instrument — this one is hard to start but super satisfying once you do… 🎸🎹
- Just putting on your favorite song and enjoying the beat 🎼

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09/29/2025

Self-Care Seed of the Day #7: Writing Affirmations ✍️

In what areas of your life do you experience the most anxiety and self-doubt?
- Work?
- School?
- A complicated relationship?

Write yourself a note with an affirmation and place it somewhere where you'll see it in a moment of stress.

For example, if you feel overwhelmed at work, put a sticky note in your desk draw that says something like,
🗒️ ”I am a capable problem-solver who is valued at my job.”

If you attend a stressful family gathering, tuck a note in your bag that says,
🗒️ "I will set boundaries to keep my inner peace.”

A simple note can help to stop patterns of negative self-talk that are easy to fall into in stressful situations and provide a reminder that you are enough and you deserve calm and peace.

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09/27/2025

🌏 Mindfulness Around the World, Stop 1: Fika in Sweden ☕️🇸🇪

“Fika” translates to a “cake and coffee break” but it’s about more than just a sweet treat. The idea is to pause in between activities and enjoy a snack and some quality time with family and friends. 🍰☕️

❓What can we learn?

Making time to connect with family and friends is important for your wellbeing, but it doesn’t have to be complicated!

Simply enjoying food or drinks together allows you to be present in the moment and recharge.

⭐️ Today, consider:
- Planning a lunch date with a friend for a day this week
- Calling a long-distance friend or family member and catching up while you eat breakfast
- Making your meal into an experience by arranging it with care on your plate and taking the time to savor the flavors instead of trying to multitask or finish it fast

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09/24/2025

A DFW Favorites winner three years in a row!

Category: Best Counseling
2023 🥇
2024 🥇
2025 🥉

Thank you to everyone who voted for us! ❤️

Therapy Fort Worth and Counseling Center



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09/22/2025

Self-Care Seed of the Day #6: Good Things Jar 🫙

Practicing gratitude is one of the most effective ways to improve your happiness and wellbeing.

Step 1: Put a jar in your room or at your desk.
Step 2: Every day, write down on a piece of paper either... 🗒️
- something good that happened or
- something for which you’re grateful
Step 3: Place it in the jar.

This can be during your lunch break, once you get home, or before you go to bed.

This is a simple way to practice gratitude daily.

But it also becomes a collection of the happy things in your life which you can read through anytime you need to re-ground yourself or reorient your perspective.

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09/18/2025

🌏 Mindfulness Around the World: New Series!

There’s more to mindfulness than sitting quietly in a specific pose. 🧘‍♀️

There are actually many different ways to relax and be more present that you can incorporate into your life.

We’ve compiled some unique mindfulness practices from around the world to show that being mindful comes in many forms…

And you can find the ones that work for you to implement in your life. 👍

👉 Follow to follow along and learn a new culture’s approach to mindfulness each week!

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09/15/2025

Self-Care Seed of the Day #5: Calming Scent 🕯️

Find a scent that brings you to your happy place, and make sure you smell it everyday.

This can be a candle, a lotion, a scented hand sanitizer, or a hygiene product. 🧴🧼

This may seem too small to make a difference…

🧠 But our brains are wired to form strong memories through scent!

A smell you associate with calm and joy serves as a reminder that you deserve happiness ☺️, even on the busiest day. �
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06/22/2025

Self care doesn’t have to involve a complete lifestyle change or 30-hour-per-week commitment.

🪴 Your mental health is like your garden…

And small efforts throughout the day to prioritize what makes you feel happy and relaxed are the seeds and sunlight that will allow your garden to thrive.

🌱 Sprinkling Seeds: 8 Self-Care Ideas You Can Add To Your Daily Routine (more details on our blog, link in bio)

1️⃣ Mindful commute: Practice mindfulness on your commute to work.

2️⃣ Set intentions: In the morning, set a simple intention, or goal, for your mindset for the day such as “I will take notice of the beautiful nature around me today,” or “I will talk to myself with patience and kindness today.”

3️⃣ Calm start: Find a quiet place in your home or outside and take your morning coffee or tea to drink there instead of taking it to go. Eliminate distractions and spend at least 5 minutes there. Savor it.

4️⃣ Sunday snack prep: Take 10 minutes to make little bags of your favorite fruits, crackers, or other snacks that you can easily grab from the fridge or pantry for a pick-me-up throughout the week.

5️⃣ Find a scent that brings you to your happy place, and make sure you smell it everyday.

6️⃣ Good things jar: Put a jar in your room or at your desk. Every day, write something good that happened or that you are grateful for on a piece of paper and place it in the jar.

7️⃣ Reminder note: Think of an area of your life in which you experience anxiety or self-doubt, and write yourself a note with an affirmation and/or reality check on the situation.

8️⃣ Don’t pressure yourself to do all of these things! Pick a few that apply to your needs and schedule and try to make them a consistent part of your routine.

Read more on our blog (link in bio)

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06/06/2025

DFW’s Best Counseling

Three years in a row…

2023: Winner🥇
2024: Winner🥇
2025: Winner🥉

For the third year in a row, has been voted a winner in the Fort Worth poll for Best Counseling!

A total of 318,000 votes were recorded this year.

We are honored that the DFW community has continued to express their support for the individualized, tailored therapy approach we offer.

Learn more about our practice and our approach to counseling at TherapyFW.com/about-us (link in bio)

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06/06/2025

DFW’s Best Counseling

Three years in a row…

2023: Winner🥇
2024: Winner🥇
2025: Winner🥉

For the third year in a row, Therapy Fort Worth, PLLC has been voted a winner in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s DFW Favorites poll for Best Counseling!

A total of 318,000 votes were recorded this year.

We are honored that the DFW community has continued to express their support for the individualized, tailored therapy approach we offer.

Learn more about our practice and our approach to counseling at TherapyFW.com/about-us

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