Balanced Living

09/23/2025

🌿 **FREE Virtual Stress Management Group** 🌿

Struggling to manage stress? You’re not alone — and support is here.

Our counseling intern, Amanda Holley, is leading a **FREE virtual group** designed to help you build healthier coping skills, find balance, and reduce everyday stress.

✨ **Details**

* Start Date: October 14th
* Format: Virtual group sessions (from the comfort of your home)
* Cost: FREE
* Who: Adults 20+
* Facilitator: Amanda Holley, Counseling Intern at Balanced Living Counseling Center

📲 **How to Join**
Spots are limited! Simply scan the QR code on the flyer to sign up and reserve your place today. (Or sign up via the form link in the comments).

Take this step for yourself — you deserve tools and support to manage life’s challenges. 💙

09/19/2025

🤝 We value the feedback of our community 🌿
Former clients, community members, and referral partners — your thoughts help us improve our services and allow us to reach more people in the community who may need mental health support.

Please consider leaving a Google review to share your experience.
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09/17/2025

Feeling overwhelmed? 🌿 Take a moment to try one of these grounding techniques and reconnect with the present.

Save this as a daily reminder or share with someone who may need it too.

Even just 1 minute a day can help calm the mind.

09/16/2025

💬 Affordable Counseling Options in Rome Georgia!

Our counseling intern, Amanda Holley, offers self-pay therapy sessions for just $50. 👏

✅This is a great option for anyone seeking professional support at an accessible rate.

✅She is supervised by our licensed team, ensuring safe, effective, and supportive care.

👇Book your session now and start your journey toward mental wellness.

Visit our website to submit an appointment request
👉[https://balancedliving.info/contact/]
OR 📲 Text 706.204.9242

08/26/2025

Life is about balance.
Be kind, but don't let others take advantage of you. Trust, but don't be misled. Be content, but never stop growing.

02/25/2025

Email Madison@balancedliving.info to sign up for our FREE group!

02/19/2025

👏 Affordable Therapy with Our Supervised Intern
Balanced Living is offering a limited-time reduced-fee program for therapy sessions with our counseling intern. Clients can receive up to 10 sessions at just $35 per session. After that, sessions transition to $75 per session or insurance billing (if eligible).

Our counseling intern is a graduate-level student currently completing clinical training under the supervision of a licensed clinician. This program provides an opportunity for clients to receive quality, affordable care in a structured, supervised setting.

Spots are limited! Contact us today to learn more or schedule an appointment. https://balancedliving.info/contact/

06/30/2024

Accepting Change

One day, my mother and I were working together in the garden. We were transplanting some plants for the third time. Grown from seed in a small container, the plants had been transferred to a larger container; then transplanted into the garden. Now, because I was moving, we were transplanting them again.

Inexperienced as a gardener, I turned to my green-thumbed mother. “Isn’t this bad for them?” I asked, as we dug them up and shook the dirt from their roots. “Won’t it hurt these plants, being uprooted and transplanted so many times?”

“Oh, no,” my mother replied. “Transplanting doesn’t hurt them. In fact, it’s good for the ones that survive. That’s how their roots grow strong. Their roots will grow deep, and they’ll make strong plants.”

Often, I’ve felt like those small plants—uprooted and turned upside down. Sometimes, I’ve endured the change willingly, sometimes reluctantly, but usually my reaction has been a combination.

Won’t this be hard on me? I ask. Wouldn’t it be better if things remained the same? That’s when I remember my mother’s words: That’s how the roots grow deep and strong.

Today, God, help me remember that during times of transition, my faith and my self are being strengthened.

Quoted from the app The Language of Letting Go.

06/02/2024

06/01/2024

Directness

We feel safe around direct, honest people. They speak their minds, and we know where we stand with them.

Indirect people, people who are afraid to say who they are, what they want, and what they’re feeling, cannot be trusted. They will somehow act out their truth even though they do not speak it. And it may catch everyone by surprise.

Directness saves time and energy. It removes us as victims. It dispenses with martyrdom and games. It helps us own our power. It creates respectful relationships.

It feels safe to be around direct, honest people. Be one.

Today, I will own my power to be direct. I do not have to be passive, nor do I need to be aggressive. I will become comfortable with my own truth, so those around me can become comfortable with me.

Quoted from the app The Language of Letting Go.

05/24/2024

Letting the Cycles Flow

Life is cyclical, not static. Our relationships benefit when we allow them to follow their own natural cycles.

Like the tide ebbs and flows, so do the cycles in relationships. We have periods of closeness and periods of distance. We have times of coming together and times of separating to work on individual issues.

We have times of love and joy, and times of anger.

Sometimes, the dimensions of relationships change as we go through changes. Sometimes, life brings us new friends or a new loved one to teach us the next lesson.

That does not mean the old friend disappears forever. It means we have entered a new cycle.

We do not have to control the course of our relationships, whether these be friendships or love relationships. We do not have to satisfy our need to control by imposing a static form on relationships.

Let it flow. Be open to the cycles. Love will not disappear. The bond between friends will not sever. Things do not remain the same forever, especially when we are growing and changing at such a rapid pace.

Trust the flow. Take care of yourself, but be willing to let people go. Hanging on to them too tightly will make them disappear.

The old adage about love still holds true: “If it’s meant to be, it will be. And if you love someone, let them go. If they come back to you, the love is yours.”

Today, I accept the cyclical nature of life and relationships. I will strive to go with the flow. I will strive for harmony with my own needs and the needs of the other person.

Quoted from the app The Language of Letting Go.

05/24/2024

Enjoyment

Life is not to be endured; life is to be enjoyed and embraced.

The belief that we must square our shoulders and get through a meager, deprived existence for far-off “rewards in Heaven” is a codependent belief.

Yes, most of us still have times when life will be stressful and challenge our endurance skills. But in recovery, we’re learning to live, to enjoy our life, and handle situations as they come.

Our survival skills have served us well. They have gotten us through difficult times—as children and adults. Our ability to freeze feelings, deny problems, deprive ourselves, and cope with stress has helped us get where we are today. But we’re safe now. We’re learning to do more than survive. We can let go of unhealthy survival behaviors. We’re learning new, better ways to protect and care for ourselves. We’re free to feel our feelings, identify and solve problems, and give ourselves the best. We’re free to open up and come alive.

Today, I will let go of my unhealthy endurance and survival skills. I will choose a new mode of living, one that allows me to be alive and enjoy the adventure.

Quoted from the app The Language of Letting Go.