Peace Within Counseling

07/26/2025

Too much multitasking causes a fragmented attention span and mental gridlock. It is ok to slow down!

07/24/2025

Hypnotherapy is amazing! That's all. We tailor each session for what YOU need! Call to schedule your session today!

07/21/2025

07/12/2025

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a framework from psychology that helps us understand what human beings need in order to heal, grow, and thrive. It teaches that we must first meet our most basic needs like food and safety before we can begin to feel safe to do inner work.

🔴 Physiological Needs: Air, water, food, shelter, sleep, clothing.
This is survival. Many of us have had to live in survival mode just trying to make it through. If you were ever unhoused, hungry, or had to go without, this is where healing starts.

🟠 Safety Needs: Safety, resources, health.
Without physical, emotional, and cultural safety, we can’t begin to heal. Feeling unsafe in our homes, our relationships, or in our community leaves the nervous system on high alert. Healing requires us to build safe environments and boundaries.

🟡 Love & Belonging: Connection to others.
Trauma often teaches us that connection isn’t safe. But we are relational beings. Reclaiming trust, kinship, and community is powerful medicine. Belonging to family, culture, and tradition is part of our healing.

🟢 Esteem: Respect and self-esteem.
Many of us carry shame that has been passed down, learned, or imposed. We begin to unlearn it here. This level is about knowing we have always been worthy.

🔵 Self-Actualization: Becoming your best self.
This is the return to who we were always meant to be and that exists when we are not living in survival. It’s living with purpose, reconnecting with our language, land, and ancestors. It’s using our voice, creating, dreaming, and showing up for ourselves and others from a grounded place.

✨ As you reflect on these layers, ask yourself: What level have I been operating from lately? What would support me in moving to the next?

Sometimes the next step isn’t big; it’s a warm meal, a safe person, a breath of fresh air, smudging, or setting one boundary. Our ancestors lived in ways that honored these needs naturally through kinship, land, ceremony, and care for one another. Colonization disrupted that balance, but healing is a return to what was always ours.

06/18/2025

Meet Aston, a six-month-old Husky-Lab mix with a calm, intuitive nature and a heart full of love. Aston is preparing to become a therapy dog at Peace Within Counseling, and he’s already showing a remarkable ability to connect with people. With his striking white coat and gentle, observant eyes, Aston brings a soothing presence to any room. Whether he’s lying quietly beside a client or offering a friendly tail wag and nudge, he knows just how to comfort and support those around him. His perfect blend of playfulness, loyalty, and emotional sensitivity makes him an ideal addition to our therapeutic environment—and a trusted friend to everyone he meets.

06/07/2025

You dont have to live like this. Help is available!