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A. Sanford Counseling

A. Modalities include:EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic therapy, CPT, Gottman, DBT

Sanford Counseling is a mental health counseling service that provides trauma, addiction, couples and mental health support through evidence based modalities.

04/28/2021

Incase you needed a little mantra to remind yourself you are brilliant.
Common humanity, compassion, courage to be and clarity. Lets begin to meet ourselves where we are, not where all the pressure says we should be.
You are amazing.

04/01/2021

"My pain isn't valid like someone else's." "I don't deserve help because my pain isn't enough."

All too often I hear these words muttered from people I work with. Hell, I've muttered those very words. Unfortunately that is the painful power of shame, a by-product of trauma.

"Trauma is not what happened to you, its what happened inside you as a result of what happened to you." -Garbor Maté

What if we lived in a world that didn't compare the context, the story line, rather cared more about the inner landscape experience? Acknowledged what happens inside and stopped making us hustle for enoughism?

Let's take a step into creating this reality. Instead of validating the context, the story, lets acknowledge and validate the feeling, the sensation the inner experience.

03/10/2021

The dialectic is one of the most beautiful places we can be. Finding, acknowledging and being truthful to ourselves and others is so freeing and amazing. It is rare for one thing to exist at a time.
Do yourself a healing favor, give yourself permission to acknowledge all that exist.

03/08/2021

Unfortunately due to our scarcity parts we are afraid of the slow is fast mindset. When we speed through things we miss out on the beautiful details and information.
Give yourself permission to slow down today, even if it is just for 5 minutes, and see what you notice. Take things in and breathe.

01/02/2021

Intention for today:

Meet ourselves where we are. Its unsustainable to meet ourselves where everyone else believe we "should" be. If today you cannot say, "I am good enough." Start with something that is 100% true to you today, "I woke up today, I spent time with my kids, I breathed and that is enough today."

01/02/2021

Stop, drop, place your hand over your heart, breath and repeat after me, "I am worthy. I am enough. I have purpose. Its okay to struggle. I am right where I need to be. I will meet myself where I'm at."

You are worth it. You, because you are you has meaning and purpose. Remember that.

10/15/2020

Dialectical: concerned with or acting through opposing forces (Oxford Languages)

Being able to balance that opposites can indeed exists helps us have flexibility in our emotional dilemmas. Give yourself the permission to see the many sides of each experience and hold space in the middle. Extremes such as: either, or, always, never bind us. Allow yourself to lean in to embrace the AND because and allows space for multiples to exist.

10/13/2020

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

~Lao Tzu~

Just as the leaves change with the seasons, change is a natural flow of our lives. We cannot grow without the uncomfortable. Lean in, embrace the uncertainty of change....there is beauty awaiting!

10/10/2020

Take a deep breath. Lean into that discomfort and hold space for love. We cannot grow without the dialectic of love and discomfort. Owning our experiences is a beautiful thing that can also be full of challenges. Be brave, choose courage over comfort, love you in that process.

08/07/2020

When you are activated in any way, take a moment to thank that part of you for sharing a cue about a need you have. Healing is just around the corner if you will listen.

Too often we judge our triggers and experiences. What if you didn't judge them and took a minute to listen to the information it is trying to tell you about what you innately need.

As Rumi says, "These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them."

07/30/2020

Today I taught my clienta about opposite action to emotion. About how our fear often tells us to run away or fight to survive, our sadness often tells us to withdraw and retreat to safety, etc. Letting our emotions lead us down a path can be very harmful. Ive spent a lifetime where emotion has told me to stay quiet, keep yourself small, don't be seen or you'll be hurt. Guess what, I still got hurt and it wasn't worth it. So, I'm learning to thank my emotion for showing up and doing the opposite action of staying small, hiding and being quiet. It isn't easy and the outcomes have been much more fulfilling.
What if you learned to thank your emotions for showing up and telling you something...and you didn't have to react to them, you could choose and opposite action that was aligned with your true being? What emotion do you need to thank and set the boundary of doing the opposite action?

06/17/2020

With all the processing, deep exploration going on for many of us right now, Black Lives Matter, Police Britality, Police Support, Racism, Physical Health, Employment fluctuations, the list can continue on. Give yourself permission to to allow all the growth to integrate and settle. This does not mean that you are forgetting about these issues and avoiding. It means you are intentionally making that space available for change to occur.

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Lehi, UT
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