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Essential Touchstones

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Essential Touchstones

An intensive outpatient program focused on helping adolescents and adults who are seeking balance

08/01/2025

Fast, Faster, Fasting

Join Cynthia Newland on August 16, 2025, for "Fast, Faster, Fasting"—a Wellness Workshop designed to nourish your body, soul, and spirit.

This 4-hour experience offers education, resources, and practical tools to help you become more equipped to care for your health in today’s fast-paced world. Through somatic integration, faith-informed insights, and science-based strategies, you'll discover rhythms of nourishment, self-regulation, and intentional wholeness.

Plant-based lunch included. Register here ➡ https://essentialtouchstones.com/registration/

07/30/2025

New Essential Parenting video available! 👉 https://youtu.be/NRA65JfelzI?si=UQ4-I6fokrb4GjIA

Connection is where change begins. Before a child can learn, behave, or regulate—they need to feel safe and seen.
Connection isn’t a soft skill. It’s the foundation of growth, trust, and cooperation.

When we slow down, get curious, and truly connect… everything else starts to fall into place. Because behavior is shaped by relationship, not control.

07/22/2025

New video available! ➡ https://youtube.com/shorts/86FdWeQq9Dc?si=vvy4dXdVvtOWLAKK

Teens are listening—even when you think they’re not.
Cursing might seem like ‘just words,’ but how we speak teaches our kids how to respond to the world.
If we want teens to communicate with respect, self-awareness, and confidence... we have to model it first.

Your words set the tone. Their words follow.

07/03/2025

📣 We’re thrilled to welcome Anna Grace Lindsey, LPC, NCC to our team!

Grace brings compassionate, trauma-informed care to individuals, families, and groups — with a special focus on adults and older teens navigating challenges such as trauma, addiction, codependency, religious abuse, and mood disorders. With lived experience and a strong clinical background in treating dually diagnosed clients, she offers a unique blend of empathy and expertise.

Grace is trained in EMDR, Brainspotting, Psychodrama, Internal Family Systems, and experiential therapies — all rooted in helping clients reclaim their sense of agency, authenticity, and connection.

📞 Now accepting new clients! Call 769-231-9414 to schedule an appointment.

07/02/2025

Our upcoming Psychodrama Training Group — “Directing the Corrective Emotional Experience” — is happening July 11–13!

Join us for a dynamic and experiential weekend of growth and learning, facilitated by John Rasberry, LMFT, TEP and Josh Myrick, MS, LPC.

This training offers 17 CE hours for mental health professionals and is designed to deepen your understanding of psychodrama — a powerful action method that uses guided drama and role playing to explore and transform emotional experiences. Whether you’re new to psychodrama or looking to sharpen your skills, this group will help you harness the healing potential of corrective emotional experiences in clinical or group work.

Dates:
Friday, July 11: 5:30–7:30pm
Saturday, July 12: 10:00am–6:00pm
Sunday, July 13: 10:00am–4:00pm
Cost: $500
Location: Essential Touchstones | Ridgeland, MS

Space is limited — secure your spot today! 📞 769-231-9414

07/01/2025

New Video Available! Discipline isn’t about control—it’s about connection. 💛
The 4 C’s of Positive Discipline give us a framework to raise respectful, resilient, and emotionally strong kids:

✨ Connection – Build trust and relationship first
🗣️ Communication – Speak with respect and clarity
💪 Capability – Encourage independence and problem-solving
🧠 Courage – Foster confidence to try, fail, and grow

When we lead with these C’s, we raise children who feel secure, capable, and empowered—not just obedient.

View here ➡ https://youtube.com/shorts/Wye3pp7Hc4o?feature=shared

06/24/2025

New Video Available! Behavior is never just behavior. The ABC Model helps us understand what's really going on:
A= Activating event/trigger
B= Your belief system/thoughts
C= Consequences of that belief
When we look at the full picture, we stop reacting- and start understanding.

View here ➡ https://youtube.com/shorts/wCgm9PYr8cM?feature=shared

06/16/2025

This one tweak can change how your child feels about themselves. There’s a big difference between praise and encouragement. Praise says, "You’re the best!" Encouragement says, "You worked hard on that." One builds dependence on approval. The other builds confidence from within.

New Essential Parenting video available now! Check it out here ➡ https://youtube.com/shorts/LXKun7fm8IU?feature=shared

Also, you can check out this free resource on the differences between praise and encouragement https://bit.ly/4n5FOeR

06/06/2025

"As a therapist and a fellow human, I want to remind you: you don’t have to be a perfect parent—you just have to be a good enough one. That means showing up, making space for your child’s emotions, and being willing to repair when things go sideways. It's not about never making mistakes; it's about modeling what it looks like to be real, reflective, and connected. Your presence matters more than perfection ever could."

New Essential Parenting video available now! Check it out here ➡ https://youtube.com/shorts/U1Ow0bt0-xY?feature=shared

Also, here's the link mentioned: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/full-catastrophe-parenting/202208/why-good-enough-parenting-is-better-perfection

06/03/2025

Rescheduled Dates!
Our upcoming Psychodrama Training Group — “Directing the Corrective Emotional Experience” — has been rescheduled from June 27–29 to July 11–13!

Join us for a dynamic and experiential weekend of growth and learning, facilitated by John Rasberry, LMFT, TEP and Josh Myrick, MS, LPC.

This training offers 17 CE hours for mental health professionals and is designed to deepen your understanding of psychodrama — a powerful action method that uses guided drama and role playing to explore and transform emotional experiences. Whether you’re new to psychodrama or looking to sharpen your skills, this group will help you harness the healing potential of corrective emotional experiences in clinical or group work.

Dates:
Friday, July 11: 5:30–7:30pm
Saturday, July 12: 10:00am–6:00pm
Sunday, July 13: 10:00am–4:00pm
Cost: $500
Location: Essential Touchstones, Ridgeland, MS

Space is limited — secure your spot today! ☎️ 769-231-9414

Address

241 Sunnybrook Road
Ridgeland, MS
39157

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 6pm
Tuesday	8am - 6pm
Wednesday	8am - 6pm
Thursday	8am - 6pm
Friday	8am - 6pm

Telephone

+17692319414

Website

https://essentialtouchstones.com/

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