Kim Powers at Heart Soul Mind Strength LLC

10/30/2025

It Is Wednesday! Here is your friendly reminder from Soul & Story Creative to make creativity and play a part of your day (no matter your age).😋

10/22/2025

Oldie but a goodie

10/21/2025

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10/16/2025

How we feel and the emotions we experience are a central part of our mental health. Conversely how we respond to emotions is critical for our health, mental and physical. While they can perplexing, stubborn, frustrating, annoying, frightening and downright depressing at times, emotions are a fundamental and necessary part of brain functioning. In fact, they are central to being human.

Unfortunately societal beliefs often tells us we shouldn’t have emotions or some emotions are bad. Telling your brain it shouldn’t have emotions is like telling your heart not to beat or your lungs not to breathe, and it doesn’t make your brain very happy.

Emotions don’t always feel nice and can make us want to run away from them. And like any avoidance, short term this seems to work, we feel relieved. But inside your brain is feeling pretty annoyed at trying to hold it all in.

How you respond to your emotions is important. Research shows suppressing, berating and shaming emotions doesn’t help us deal with them at all and just creates more stress and make emotions feel even more difficult.

Naming, validating, expressing and recognising emotions seems to help us process them and help us become friends with them, rather than them having power over us. It seems to soothe those emotions and instead of adding a layer of more stress and difficult feelings, helps us deal with the ones we have.

read more about the science of emotions and how we can help our emotions in my books
📕‘A Toolkit for your Emotions’.
📚 A toolkit for modern life
📖 A toolkit for happiness

09/30/2025

DBT Skills. Mindfulness + Distress Tolerance.
One choice at a time, you are cultivating a new way of being, replacing old patterns and instincts with new ones that are aligned with your values, hopes and true self.
[by FB page The New Happy Co]

09/30/2025

Triggers are reminders of pain we still carry. Healing means understanding where those feelings come from and learning how to move forward with compassion. 💙

Read more in Understanding Emotional Triggers: Our Feelings Have Power 👉 https://reachoutrecovery.com/understanding-emotional-triggers-our-feelings-have-power/

09/28/2025

09/27/2025

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08/24/2025

In the same way that other peoples' behavior is about them...your responses to the world are about you.

So if you want to break the patterns of continued emotional turmoil, you have to start with learning how to check in with you.

Which is why it's important to take a step back regularly to check in take a look at how your "stuff" is impacting your current worldview.

To see where old pain is being projected onto new people & events.

To take inventory of the things and people that really give you energy, and the ones that aren't working for you anymore (and where you need to set some energetic or overt boundaries).

To see how the stories you're telling yourself about who you are and how the world works are impacting you.

To recognize when you're feeling more reactive than usual, and pause to address the deeper needs that aren't being met, or the places that need some rest and care.

And to be aware of when you're feeling calmer, more generous, and happier than usual and to be able to notice what that feels like and what contributes to that state for YOU, so that you can bring it into your life more readily.

For many, we've been taught to disconnect from our own bodies & intuition from a young age, and so we struggle with this kind of self-reflection and self-awareness.
But it's never too late to come back to yourself; to start tuning in to your own body so that you can begin making choices that help you feel more regulated, connected, motivated, and alive.

This reflective process often takes years to figure out when we're doing it on our own, but the 12 month Cycle Breakers program provides a structure in a small group, supportive atmosphere that allows you to start a practice for safely reconnecting with yourself, seeing what gives you energy, setting necessary boundaries, and opening yourself to blindspots. Then learning to start walking toward/creating the life that feels most in alignment with you.
We begin Sept 2, but registration ends August 29 — only a few spots left.
https://theeqschool.co/cycle-breakers