Lasting Peace Counseling

08/20/2025

As I prep for a day of shouldering pain with so many clients, we pray.
I pray for each one of you, I pray for your healing, for hope, that you sense Gods presence in your life and in this room.

In the summer months, my kids sometimes join me and we pray together for you.

This life is not intended for you to carry burdens on your own. If you are entering this room, you are not alone. Not ever. You are deeply held in prayer by me, my family and other brothers and sisters in Christ. You may never know how much you are carried by others you have never met. This is the power of the body of Christ and prayer.

**none of your names or stories are released.

04/03/2025

What our community has endured over the last few days is absolutely unimaginable. Many are without power, heat and are isolated. It is perfectly
normal to be feeling anxious, down or uncertain about the future during natural disasters like these.

Our family has been praying for those who are suffering and for the crews who are aiding our community in restoration.

I’ll be at E Free church hopefully in the coming days to offer free sessions to those who are feeling uneasy after these events.

(Recovering from the flu, so I’ll have dates posted soon!)

Even in the midst of the storms, we can rest knowing God will never leave us nor forsake us.

03/03/2025

I have sat with too many women who have been betrayed by the people or systems that SHOULD be protecting them. The common statements from them are:

Who can I even tell about this?
Who am I supposed to trust now?
No one believes or will believe me.
I am alone in this.

This group was developed to not only answer those questions or address those fears, but to heal in a community of others who get it.

Please join us for this six week treatment group beginning April 7. Link to register is in the comments.

02/10/2025

It is natural in my line of work to be in contact with those in pain. But lately, it has been deep, deep pain I have been witnessing. Dark sorrow, torment, suffering.

It is so hard to see light when you are in the thick of the storm, when your battle is not over, when everything is just black. Your brain will want to deny that joy exists, it will try to block out every attempt to overcome.

But I have sat with HUNDREDS of people in your exact position (And I have been one of them!!) and I am here to tell you, there will be brighter days. And all that darkness you are going through will all be so clear on the other side. It has purpose, it has meaning. It will be rewarded if you look to the one who will never leave you or forsake you.

This pain is temporary and joy will come in the morning.
Keep fighting.

02/02/2025

We all will suffer at some point. It’s a promise. But HOW we suffer can either break us, or grow us and those around us.

You may be asking, okay then how do we suffer well?

We look to the ultimate sufferer. We look to Christ.

This photo came out of a highly recommend book, “Rare Leadership” by Marcus Warner and Jim Wilder.

As much as we loathe or anxiously try to avoid pain, suffering is an opportunity to grow our limits, and grow relationally with God and others.

12/22/2024

It’s the holidays and as we spend more time together as a family, travel and cram together in small spaces, I am reminded:

**Our kids are watching us**

So…

Pause, before you speak, before you react, before you enter into that power struggle with your children or others.

Pause and ask..

What is brewing beneath the surface? What baggage are you carrying into this interaction? How can you calm yourself before you communicate with others so you can protect your kids and others around you from things that have nothing to do with them.

Pausing promotes safety and prevents harm.

And if you’re frustrated and cannot calm.. tell your kids that. Help them understand that sometimes, we need to pause and calm our frustration before we engage.

Pause and watch the fruit blossom. If we pause and seek wisdom before challenging interactions, our children will do the same.

They are always watching.

(This is coming from me, who didn’t pause several times and had to repair damage. We aren’t perfect, but we are given the gift of grace and do overs)

Merry Christmas 🎄

12/12/2024

Good morning!!!!

Christmas giveaways are starting today. The first giveaway is a private session with me to help your body move trauma OUT (The video is in the comments describing what that entails) and a supplement designed to support emotional health.

To enter to win, all you have to do is:
1) tag five friends in Wellness off Mains original post,
2) share the original post
3) follow my page Lasting Peace Counseling and wellness off mains page.

That’s it!

Good luck

*CLOSED** Thank you for all who entered and helped spread the world about our businesses! The lucky winner is Jessica Meehan!!!! Congrats!!!🥳

The First Day of Christmas Wellness Giveaway!

To enter please tag 5 friends on this post, share, and make sure you are following both Wellness off Main and Lasting Peace Counseling
Anyone can enter, so if you have been tagged go ahead and enter as well!!

We have posted a video in the comments of Jessie explaining what she is offering, its pretty amazing!!

The lucky winner will also be getting a bottle of ME Support by Cellcore. ME Support helps with stress, emotions, overwhelm, and I often see it help people with chronic pain. It helps you release trapped negative energy; it's like Emotion Code in a bottle!

Winner will be drawn at 7:00 am tomorrow! Good Luck!

12/11/2024

Partnering with Wellness Off Main for an exciting giveaway event. Follow her page to keep up to date on how to enter ☺️

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving! This year has been a whirlwind of incredible blessings.. but not without storms.

I have been reminded time and time again while walking with you that storms are a refining process. We learn, we grow
we get stretched to our limits so that our limits become even bigger than before.

I am thankful for the blessings, but I am truly thanking God for those storms; my own personal storms and the storms of others I get to witness.

Thank you for trusting me with your darkest places. And thank you for letting me share mine as we go through this life together.

God bless you, keep you and shine his glorious loving face upon you.

10/28/2024

If any parent comes to me requesting guidance on connecting or disciplining better with their children, you will hear me make many references from this podcast. This episode takes so many things I’ve learned as a parent, clinician and researcher and provides simple, tangible ways to love our children well.

Parenting our children in ways that offer unconditional love, connection and safety is the antidote to EVERY SINGLE mental health concern.

I hope you are blessed by this 15 minute life changing podcast. Part one is available as well.

Podcast Episode · Focus on the Family with Jim Daly · 10/23/2024 · 26m