Thrive Christian Counseling

09/16/2025

Research shows that change happens when your goal is to get better, not perfect.

That mindset enables you to take each setback in stride and continue moving forward.

09/11/2025

Real success isn’t about hustle until burnout—it’s about peace, balance, and a body that feels safe to rest. Protect your nervous system, and you protect your future.

09/08/2025

It’s National Read a Book Day 📖 so we’re turning to one of our favorites, The Love Prescription.

Think about it. When was the last time you noticed the little things… the coffee waiting for you in the morning, the quick text to check in, the way they quietly handled something so you didn’t have to?

It’s easy to miss those gestures when negativity takes over, but choosing to notice the good is what helps love last.

So today, in honor of Read a Book Day, take a page from the Gottmans and ask yourself: what’s one small thing your partner has done lately that deserves a little extra appreciation? 💭❤️
Read it today: https://bit.ly/464jBGt

09/06/2025

09/05/2025

Kindness sets off a chain reaction. It replicates itself. It goes viral. In a beautiful, miraculous way, it spreads by transforming those it touches so they become carriers and pass it along.

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09/02/2025

08/29/2025

The new generational wealth isn’t just money in the bank.

It’s growing up in a home where rest isn’t laziness, and play isn’t frivolous. Where joy doesn’t have to be earned, and stillness isn’t treated like a crime.

In a culture that glorifies hustle and measures worth in output, this is nothing short of revolutionary.

To raise children in an environment that honours balance is to give them the courage to rest, the freedom to play, and the wisdom to know they are more than their productivity.

This is the legacy: children who grow up knowing peace is valuable, joy is essential, and their worth was never tied to how much they could achieve.

Because in a world obsessed with doing more, the rarest and richest inheritance is teaching them how to simply… be. ❤️

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08/26/2025

Leading with empathy is one of those magical things that makes you extraordinary.

08/21/2025

Make time to listen.

Not just to the noise of their words, but to the weight behind them.

What feels small to us may feel enormous to them.
What seems fleeting to us may shape them for years.

Every story, every question, every complaint is a doorway into how they see the world — and how they see themselves within it.

If we brush it off, that doorway slowly closes.
If we lean in, we are invited into a world that only opens to those who are willing to pause and care.

Don’t get locked out. Because once that doorway shuts, it can be painfully hard to find your way back in.

And nothing leaves a deeper ache — for parent or child — than a voice that learned it was safer to stay silent. ❤️

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08/16/2025

Big feelings aren’t the enemy.

They’re invitations —
to connect, to guide, to grow.

Our children don’t need us to silence their emotions. They need us to help them understand them.

To show them it’s okay to feel deeply — and to teach them what to do with that depth.

We validate the storm inside. We hold the line outside. And in doing so, we help them learn what it means to be both human and whole.

For too long, we’ve rushed to correct the outburst without ever tending to what caused it. We’ve patched the behaviour while the pain beneath it stayed unheard.

But choosing to meet their chaos with calm,
their fear with presence,
their fire with wisdom…
That’s the missing piece.

That’s where the healing begins.
That’s where the magic lives.❤️

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08/14/2025

08/11/2025

Awareness is only the beginning. Real change starts when awareness meets action.
What will you DO now that you know?