Jenuine Courage

08/15/2025

This is a real man.

03/01/2025

In a world that feels heavy, and frankly scary, I’m reclaiming what makes me happy. This morning, that means celebrating this beautiful breakfast. Food, color, texture, flavor-simple joys that ground me. If we are going to make it through, we need to savor what is good. Joy is the antidote to fear, anger and sorrow

12/03/2024

Jenuine Courage is hiring therapists who are passionate about relationships with self and others. Click on the link to learn more! (and please share).

Jenuine Courage Counseling

08/13/2024

When we try to make our kids happy, we just might be sending a message that we are just as afraid of difficult emotions as they are. Thoughts?

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08/05/2024

I am all in for self love! But if your wounds are because of relational trauma, then that is healed in the context of relationships. Sometimes, I think society goes too far in the self love movement. Click on the picture to watch the short video.

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07/09/2024

This!

07/08/2024

I just love following this woman. Her definition of self care is spot on! "We take care of ourselves today, often in uncomfortable ways, to benefit our future selves".

05/08/2024

In 2019, I attended a 4-day externship in Nashville to learn about this model, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). I fell in love with this deep and meaningful way to connect, attune, empathize and hold people’s hearts. Although I had been a therapist for 20 years already, when I learned EFT, everything finally “clicked” for me. It has become my mission to share this work with my clients and other therapists. Today, after 3 ½ years of training, learning, supervision, recording sessions with my couples (and lots of $), I was notified that I am officially certified as an EFT therapist!!!!
Learning to be an EFT therapist has not only changed me professionally, but also personally (just ask my family). Thank you to Jessica Schroeder, my EFT supervisor, who supported me in the moments when I felt like I couldn’t learn this model successfully. Thank you to my professional peers who wrote amazing letters of reference for me. Thank you to Mark, as well, for his patience, support and being my guinea pig these last 3 years! https://members.iceeft.com/therapist-search/therapist-profile.php

04/22/2024

"Your anger is worthy of space".

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04/17/2024

Has anyone else been thinking about how they parented their children and wishing you could do it differently? I wish I would have understood this concept of holding attachment and authenticity together. What do you think? Click the picture to see the video.

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04/03/2024

Cuddling with a furry friend works too!

We’ve been conditioned to believe negative emotions mean something is wrong with us. But anger, sadness, and every other “negative” emotion is just a part of life. The remedy isn’t to repress emotions or deny they exist— it’s to allow them. To find simple ways to raise our emotional energy. Sometimes it’s through sitting in the sun hearing the birds chirp (great for our vagal tone), sometimes we just need a nap. Other times we need time in silent or a good cuddle. Emotions come and go. And we have the power to choose to make choices that allow those emotions to process and fade

04/01/2024

What a great reframe! Kids lie to protect the connection with their parents. Telling the truth must bring more connection than distance.