Northern Piedmont Counseling PLLC

07/25/2025

“If you’re confused about why you’re not moving forward naturally in some area of your life, take a closer look. See if you’ve got some hidden fears that might be holding you back. If you’re blocked and trying to move forward, remember to feel and release your fear first. Then see if that wasn’t just the key you needed to unlock and open that door. “
More Language of Letting Go
By Melody Beattie 

07/21/2025

“Be patient with yourself if you have moments and times of not liking someone or something, whether it’s your job, your roommate, your home, or your spouse. But if you’re consistently and blatantly not liking someone or someplace, maybe it’s time to move on.

Watch for patterns in your emotional responses to your life. If you’re consistently responding to something or someone in a particular way, entertain the possibility that person, place, or thing might have outworn its usefulness in your life.”
More Language of Letting Go
By Melody Beattie 

07/03/2025

“What’s up?
I don’t mean the events. You most likely are extremely aware of the events taking place – or not occurring in your life. What’s up emotionally?

Do you feel anxious, scared, ambivalent, wishy-washy, or fiercely determined? Do you feel clever, powerful, blissful, curious, or relieved?

There are many shades and colors, nuances of emotions. Some emotions get our attention quickly. They clearly present themselves, and we immediately name them and claim them as ours. Sometimes the feelings are not that easy to identify. Those are usually the ones we need to pay the most attention to; those are often the ones that can be controlling our lives.

An important idea to remember about feelings is that they are just emotional energy and we’re allowed to feel how we feel. There’s no right and wrong about emotions; the names are just words we used to identify that particular emotional energy burst.

There’s another way we can feel, another space we are each entitled to. That space is called centered, balanced, and clear. When we identify, feel, and release whatever feeling is up each day, we’ll easily and naturally return to that quiet, peaceful, centered place.

Sometimes, if the emotional burst is big - of the volcanic size - it might take a few days or a week to return to that clear, centered place. Other times, just an acknowledging nod in the direction of the emotion that’s up is all we need to do.

Don’t resist. Give in. Give in all the way to what and how you feel. Then just let that float away. The more you give into whatever you’re feeling, the less it will hurt and the more quickly it’ll disappear. The more specific you can be about the event or person that’s triggering the emotion, the more you help yourself slide gracefully through the emotional burst.

Mastering your emotions means taking responsibility for how you feel. Feelings are important, but remember, they’re just feelings, too. Don’t let them define reality, control your life, or color your world. Mastering your emotions means clearing out your emotions so you can live, move, love, work, and play from that peaceful, centered place.

Take a moment today and each day of your life. Ask yourself, what’s up?”
From More Language of Letting Go
By Melody Beattie

07/01/2025

From More Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie

“Many of us are survivors. We learned the art of leaving our bodies early on, perhaps in our childhood or maybe later, as a way of coping with situations that didn’t feel good and that didn’t feel right to us. We learned to deny how a situation felt and often how it felt to be with certain people in order to cope with situations we found ourselves in that we didn’t have the tools or the power to escape. We trained ourselves to ignore how things felt because either we told ourselves we had no choice, or we truly didn’t have a say in the matter.

We don’t have to survive anymore. That time is past. Now, it’s time to live.

Come back into your body. Stretch your senses, so that they fill up all of you – your sense of taste, smell, touch, sight, and sound, and your intuitive senses, too. How do you feel emotionally? If you can’t put words to it, just describe it as best as you can. Then go to the next level. Tune into the feelings and moods of the world around you, but not so much that you take these feelings on as yours. Tune in just enough to recognize how the energy of each situation feels to you.

Don’t judge your responses and feelings as either good or bad. And you don’t have to do anything to control how it feels - to you or anyone else. Just allow yourself to experience and recognize how it feels to be you.

Part of speaking the language of letting go means learning to delight and revel in all our senses, including our inner knowing.

Learn to say with trust and confidence, this is how I feel.”

06/24/2025

“When something comes up, calm yourself. Feel your emotions. Don’t move into denial. Feel each wave of each feeling. Allow your thoughts to pass through you. But the key is not to act on these emotions. Let them pass through you first.

Your power comes from being centered and clear. That that’s where your answers, insights, and lessons will come from, too.

The first thing to do when something happens is to feel what you feel.

The second is to calm yourself. From that place of calm, you’ll be guided into your next step.”
More Language of Letting Go
By Melody Beattie

06/06/2025

Life can be heavy so it's important to look for the small moments of joy in each day...like that first sip of coffee in the morning, etc.

Hang on to that. Always. 💚 ~ Nanea

02/17/2025

01/21/2025

When feeling overwhelmed it’s sometimes helpful to move away from the big picture of everything going on to focus on doing one small thing that’s right in front of you in this moment.

01/08/2025

Also in my control and a very important part of good mental health…How I treat myself!!

01/01/2025

Look to this day,
For it is life,
The very life of life.
In its brief course lie all
The realities and verities of existence….

For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today, well lived,
Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this day.

Sanskrit proverb by Kalidasa, poet & playwright, Fourth century A.D.