Eddie Barnett Counseling

07/27/2024

A quick temper comes from fear. Many people think a quick temper comes from confidence, but it’s actually insecurity and feelings of being out of control.

Of course, it never ok to intimate, scream at, or unleash your temper on another because you feel afraid. But it does help understand the behavior.

The more confident and secure a person is, the more they’re in their rational mind and able to seek solutions. The more afraid and in threat mode, the more in the lizard (or survival brain.)

Confidence is quiet, cooperative, and able to stay grounded

05/23/2024

01/27/2023

We are excited to add Katie Kephart to the Ampersand Counseling team! Katie's desire is to help individuals over the age of 14. Areas of special interest include body image concerns, adult children of emotional neglect, anxiety, depression, relationship betrayal, and trauma. Katie’s aim is to create an environment where individuals feel connected, understood, supported, and worthy of healing.

Katie is an intern in the Master of Arts in Counseling program at MidAmerica Nazarene University. She will be offering a low sliding scale fee to be available to provide quality effective counseling to all economic levels. She is currently available to see clients and has immediate openings.

01/27/2023

We are excited to add Megan Sprague to the Ampersand Counseling team! Megan's desire is to help individuals over the age of 12. She believes that every person is made well and is worthy of living a life of wholeness, peace, and joy. Pursuing therapy can feel vulnerable and intimidating, however, investing in your healing is both courageous and so worthwhile. Her objective is to help facilitate a safe environment in which we can explore emotional, cognitive, relational, and spiritual needs in collaboration.

Megan is an intern in the Master of Arts in Counseling program at MidAmerica Nazarene University. She will be offering a low sliding scale fee to be available to provide quality effective counseling to all economic levels. She is currently available to see clients and has immediate openings.

03/25/2022

Good morning community. To those that the anguish of watching our teens struggle, here is a post to help in watching for signs in our teens.

With more awareness of just how fundamentally important mental health is to our overall being, it’s no surprise that the focus on teen mental health is being taken more seriously now than in previous generations. https://bit.ly/3whWiIW

09/09/2021

Good morning community I wanted to let you in on an article I read again this morning. It gave me the opportunity to be reminded that against the odds their is at least one thing that can lift us up. Hope you enjoy the reading.

One man's reflection on escaping the likelihood of a lousy life.

08/30/2021

Laying there, unsure if I would ever leave the hospital bed, I felt helpless and fearful. What I didn’t know is what I would learn could change my life forever.

Honestly the hardest thing about telling this story is that so much of it takes place in a fog. I remember confession and doubt from doctors and nurses, I remember the burn of the morphine going into my system, I remember feeling as though a train was trying to come out of my stomach. But one thing I do not remember for those first days, was peace.

During the week that I spent hooked up to monitors and IV’s, I remember the helplessness that I could see on the faces around me, the uncertainty that they had of the situation. Illness, especially illnesses that have no ability to be seen, felt or tested for can leave us feeling isolated at best. Being vulnerable, the simple reliance on someone else to accept you and what you are going through, can feel overwhelming, unsafe or frightening. This is where I was, laying in this hospital bed unsure if I would die and if anyone believed me that I thought I might.

What I learned on my last morning in the hospital bed was the ability to recognize vulnerability as a strength. How to completely let your guard and beliefs be turned over to something beyond yourself. On this last morning I woke in full surrender, if I was not improving beyond this point the hospital did not know what else to do. But this morning I woke feeling better, improved from the state I was in the previous night. The difference I fully believe was the result of a wife that laid her hands on me in prayer and submitted herself to the process also. The submission of fear to the process and the ability to let faith in something more, be bigger than any amount of pride was what allowed healing to begin.

This happened for a reason, the learning and growing that took place has its place in not only my story but others also. In the growth over the last few years since this took place I have learned how to be vulnerable in my own times of pain and this led me to learning how to stand with those that are hurting, allowing my vulnerability to invite others into learning how to grow in their own vulnerability. Thank you for letting me share my story with you, if you need someone to walk beside you in your story please reach out.

God Bless
Eddie