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Untangled Counseling

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02/22/2024

Thought negotiation skills were only for business? Who knew? They can actually help improve your personal relationships as well!

Three components are needed to get started:

1. willingness to COMMUNICATE
2. mutual CONSIDERATION
3. the ability to COMPROMISE

If you have these 3 ingredients, you can begin the process of negotiating. I'll cover these in greater detail next time! If you don't have these though, you may want to find out WHY NOT first, in order to live your live untangled :-).

01/26/2024

Here's something few of us are taught about relationships...

There is a key ingredient in successful relationships that is often overlooked. That is the ability to negotiate. Many people that the key is to always give in to the other person for the sake of peace. Others think always taking what they need is the answer to get their needs met. Both methods are actually eroding the very thing they are wanting: connection.

If you feel your relationships are unbalanced and need a tune up, stay tuned and learn more about reciprocity and how to get it. You can learn new skills to change the dynamic in any relationship and .

01/02/2023

Happy New Year! While most of the world is focused on a different type of scale, let's consider the type of scale that can help us in all aspects of life...

Taking stock of the previous year and setting goals for the coming year is common this time of year. In most arenas of life, we can all benefit from ONE KEY thing - BALANCE.

As you consider potential goals for 2023, would you ponder what areas of your life can use some EQUILIBRIUM - and choose to live life untangled 😉

11/08/2022

What do you need to release?

After experiencing a loss of any kind, we all go through various phases. If we allow ourselves to feel the feelings, not get stuck in denial or bargaining (minimizing), we get to acceptance.

True acceptance can be freeing, as we internalize the new external reality, and learn to live with a new frame of reference.

If you feel stuck in grief, reach out to a professional, so you can learn to .

10/27/2022

How can we get past the bargaining stage of grief?

By determining whether we are feeling sadness or depression. Sadness - appropriate emotional pain over the uncontrollable loss or disappointment experienced would be the next stage, one step closer to acceptance.

Depression however, causing lethargy, fatigue, inappropriate or excessive feelings of worthlessness or guilt, can mean that feelings are being repressed and turned inward. Taking OVER-responsibility for the loss is maladaptive and usually will keep you stuck in the grief process. It will usually take an outside perspective, a professional, to help realign how much control you really had in the situation.

Which way are you feeling about a loss, sad or depressed?

10/14/2022

Bargaining is the next stage for grieving a loss. What does that mean exactly?

We're all familiar with sales - it's a discount, a price reduction. When we are in the bargaining stage of grief, we may feel like we have fully accepted but we are only halfway there. Often, this is when we tend to MINIMIZE or DOWNPLAY the effects of the loss, so no longer in denial, but not in full acceptance yet.

THIS IS WHERE MOST OF US GET STUCK!

If we camp out here, we will still have underlying sadness, depression, anger or anxiety because the grief is still unresolved. The only way out is through...

10/04/2022

Have you ever been angry due to a loss?

Anger is listed as one of the stages of grief because typically we are angry at the situation. But we can also be angry at a person. This is often harder to admit or digest for several reasons.

1. We have been conditioned to believe anger is a "bad" emotion
2. We have been taught that if we feel angry, we are a "bad" person
3. We feel conflicted to be angry at a person we care/ cared about

No emotion is bad in and of itself, it's just a feeling. Our behaviors due to these emotions can be judged, but non-judgmental investigation of our feelings is the appropriate response. GREIVING in incomplete without FEELING... even angry.

09/28/2022

What are the stages of grief?

The stages of grief include shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression (or sadness), testing, and then finally acceptance. These are not always experienced in order and can be circled around several times, as new waves of grief may be felt around new discoveries.

The KEY thing to consider is that these stages MAY be needed to go through in regards to MANY different life events - not just a death.

Once you get past denial that the event truly occurred, it is CRUCIAL to feel the feelings around it, usually anger but can be mixed feelings as well. This stage is where many of us get stuck...

09/20/2022

Once you step out of denial, then what? Denial only opens up the pain our brain was trying to protect us from.

There is a way to climb out of the spiral of self-deception and work through the pain. What is that process called?

Grieving...

Might sound strange but grieving is a useful tool not only in times when we lose a loved one, but to also get past hurts and disappointments we haven't wanted to face.

Leaning into grief - which may feel like we are sinking down - actually helps us get to the top - to acceptance.

Stay tuned for more about the healing process of grief...

09/14/2022

Have you ever been in denial about something?

Denial is a self-protective measure the brain uses to help cope with difficulties... temporarily. Problems arise though when we never go back to process the situation and we keep it tucked away for months, years, even decades. This can cause mental health decline as our reality is skewed due to long term self-deception.

The solution is to periodically review the evidence associated with any given situation and compare it to how we are perceiving and managing it. Sometimes you need help with this process.

Is there something you've realized you've been in denial about?

08/05/2022

How are you feeling?

If you have been feeling numb or checked out, this may be a difficult question for you to answer.

Children are often told to dampen how they feel, usually because the adults in the room are uncomfortable themselves with emotional talk.

Have you learned to avoid and be out of touch with your feelings?

07/05/2022

Accepting reality is such a powerful tool.

That's why the recovery programs use it as a basis for getting better.

Denying facts keeps us from truly having optimal mental health because it involves deceiving others and even ourselves. Somewhere in our bodies, the truth is already there, waiting to be given the opportunity to shine in order for us to fully heal.

What is keeping you in denial?

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Tuesday	9am - 7pm
Wednesday	9am - 7pm
Saturday	9am - 1pm

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