Soul Purpose Counseling & Consultation, PLLC

03/16/2025

10/11/2024

Now, you go.

09/25/2024

Hi there 👋 helloooooooooo:

Alicia Shepard and I will be gallivanting around town all day... 😃 going to local individuals and businesses, seeking donations and sponsors for Eve's Place.

Would you like an office visit today (with/or without a doggy helper)? It can really help to break up the day’s monotony.

Learn more about the sanctuary:

Welcome to Eve's Place: A Sanctuary for Dogs and Souls Alike

05/17/2024

05/17/2024

ℹ️🌿 THIS NUMBED OUT WORLD NEEDS SENSITIVE PEOPLE LIKE YOU |

Have you ever worried that your feelings are too big or "too much" to be acknowledged... much less shared out loud with another human being?
Today I'm sharing a personal story and a practice I use for sharing my emotions despite this fear so many of us adopted in childhood that our feelings are not valid and thus, not worthy of being shared.

I call BS.

The truth is that our feelings are data. They are not "right" or "wrong" so much as they are information -- a glimpse into our inner world.

So many of us grew up having emotions like sadness, grief, confusion, jealousy, and rage dismissed or denied by often well-intended but misguided adults who were never taught how to listen to, empathize with, and/or regulate emotions themselves.

Read the full article: https://genmindful.com/blogs/mindful-moments/this-numbed-out-world-needs-sensitive-people-like-you



📷: heartfeltquotes.blogspot.com,

05/17/2024

I am, myself, three selves at least. To begin with, there is the child I was. Certainly I am not that child anymore! Yet, distantly, or sometimes not so distantly, I can hear that child's voice—I can feel its hope, or its distress. It has not vanished. Powerful, egotistical, insinuating—its presence rises, in memory, or from the steamy river of dreams. It is not gone, not by a long shot. It is with me in the present hour. It will be with me in the grave.

—Mary Oliver, Of Power and Time
🖼️ Liana Finck for the New Yorker

01/11/2024

Pleasure can mean many things, as simple as feeling cozy and as complex as feeling loved.

The neural pathways for feeling good have not had a chance to develop, and the neural pathways for feeling bad are quite practiced. Feeling good, too, takes conscious practice.

01/07/2024

Someone commented on my ice skating post yesterday.
They used the phrase ‘physical intelligence’ which I had never heard.

I absolutely love it.
I googled it and did some reading.
This image is my interpretation of physical intelligence.

So many other types of ‘intelligence’ are often valued more, especially in school settings. Adults are always looking to build academic skills, emotional skills, interpersonal skills, social skills, self control.

Many of our neurodivergent kids struggle with these skills.

Many of them end up thinking that they are unintelligent and ‘bad at school’, simply because school doesn’t often showcase the intelligence that they do have. Stuff like physical intelligence, creative intelligence, musical talents, empathy.

It’s so important that our ND kids know their strengths.
I want our kids who are ‘only good at sports’ to know that they have big physical intelligence, and that is valuable. That is not unimportant.

Same as creative intelligence. Same as musical intelligence.
Whatever their strengths are.
Make sure they know them.

It’s really important in helping them develop a positive neurodivergent identity.

Yes?

Em 🌈

01/07/2024

ℹ️🌿 ATTACHMENT TRAUMA IN ADULTS: WHAT ARE THE COMMON SIGNS? |

If a child’s parent or primary caretaker is unpredictable, neglectful, or abusive, it can result in attachment trauma. Unfortunately, children lack the language skills to describe what they feel. Therefore, it’s not until adulthood that such trauma is recognized and addressed.

Unhealed attachment trauma impacts adults in a variety of negative ways — emotionally, mentally, and physically. It also can be related to complex (ongoing) trauma. The key is learning how to identify the signs such that healing can begin.

Read the Full Article https://michaelgquirke.com/attachment-trauma-in-adults-what-are-the-common-signs/

📷: alanrobarge.com (Instagram)

01/06/2024

I think you're doing your kid a disservice by not telling them what's going on with diagnostic appointments.

You are doing them an even greater disservice by keeping the diagnosis from them.

First step is telling them about their brain so they can get to know it.

Them and you, both.

Em 🌈

01/06/2024

... and why parents shouldn't let family drama get in the way.