Laura Carr, LMFT, Center for Mindful Relationships

Laura Carr, LMFT, Center for Mindful Relationships Center for Mindful Relationships offers affordable & skilled counseling services for Individuals, Families, Couples.

All individuals long for similar things: to feel loved, to be connected, to contribute to life and to receive acknowledgement for those contributions. At CFMR, we work with you to reach a place where you are able to identify what you truly want from life, recognize what obstacles stand in your way and see an opportunity to make different choices in the future. This process can take many forms, some of which are best suited for individual, couples, family and group therapy. In an effort to provide an integrated approach to therapy, we also offer additional resources and/or referrals based on the specific needs of the client.

Please beware and inform yourself. If you were accessing therapy services through any of these types of platforms, it is...
11/13/2025

Please beware and inform yourself. If you were accessing therapy services through any of these types of platforms, it is very possible that your information is not protected.

Happy Halloween! Enjoy! 🎃 đŸ‘» 🎃 đŸ‘» 🎃 đŸ‘» 🎃 đŸ‘»
10/31/2025

Happy Halloween! Enjoy!
🎃 đŸ‘» 🎃 đŸ‘» 🎃 đŸ‘» 🎃 đŸ‘»

Big news: I’m writing on Substack! ✹Sharing my thoughts publicly is new for me
and a little scary, but also exciting.Sub...
10/31/2025

Big news: I’m writing on Substack! ✹

Sharing my thoughts publicly is new for me
and a little scary, but also exciting.

Subscribe if you’d like to read, or just send a cheer my way. Every bit of support matters.

Take a moment to pause, breathe, and reflect today.

Link in the bio*
Blessings,
Laura

Healing deepens when we learn to witness ourselves with compassion.These Compassionate Witnessing prompts offer a simple...
10/17/2025

Healing deepens when we learn to witness ourselves with compassion.

These Compassionate Witnessing prompts offer a simple (though not easy) practice: to pause, notice, and gently explore what’s happening in the body, mind, beliefs, and emotions.

The process begins with awareness — not fixing, not analyzing, just noticing.
‹Over time, this noticing becomes a way of being with ourselves rooted in patience, kindness, and authenticity .

✹ It all starts with noticing.‹🕊 Healing does happen
keep showing up.

Read more about this practice in my October blog (link in bio). If you want to receive my monthly Newsletter comment DM me with your email.
Blessings,
laura
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Frequent check in with yourself is a requirement of presence & care.
10/10/2025

Frequent check in with yourself is a requirement of presence & care.

10/02/2025

Checking in
with yourself
When was the last time you checked in with yourself
really checked in? With your body? With your spirit?

What does it even look like to check in with oneself?

Start with curiosity

What’s happening in my body? What sensations do I notice?
- notice & name what you see
What’s happening in the mind? What thoughts are here?
- notice & name what you see
Are there any emotions present for me?
- notice & name what you see

Then ask: What would compassion offer me right now?

✹ Start by practicing this 3 times a day. Pair it with something you already do.
- Morning shower
- Lunch break
- Driving home

This is the process of learning to know you. In the beginning this can feel surprisingly hard. That’s often old conditioning or pain showing up. Keep practicing, your presence and compassion are stronger than you think


“The point” if there is one is to pay attention so we can learn how to be HERE and experience living. Only in awareness
...
09/30/2025

“The point” if there is one is to pay attention so we can learn how to be HERE and experience living. Only in awareness
paying attention, can we discover the subtle difference between being caught in what traps us and opening into what frees us.

How do you remind yourself to return to here?


Sometimes what we cling to—an old belief, a role we’ve outgrown, or even a relationship pattern—begins to possess us. He...
09/22/2025

Sometimes what we cling to—an old belief, a role we’ve outgrown, or even a relationship pattern—begins to possess us. Healing invites us to notice what no longer serves and, with curiosity, explore what is asking to be witnessed. In the witnessing, releasing has already begun. ✹

What are you ready to witness on your journey of healing and emotional attunement?

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.- AnaĂŻs NinShame, in all its forms, hinders learning. It fosters defens...
09/17/2025

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
- AnaĂŻs Nin

Shame, in all its forms, hinders learning. It fosters defensiveness and stifles curiosity. Embarrassment is a milder form of shame. Criticism, judgment, mockery, and blaming are just a few examples of behaviors that breed shame.

Individuals who are susceptible to feelings of shame often have early life experiences that led to the internalization of messages or beliefs of unworthiness.

Healing necessitates confronting these inaccuracies. This is the profound work of healing. As the teachings of Buddhism proclaim, “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” (The Dhammapada)

In the words of Zen teacher, Cheri Huber, “spiritual practice doesn’t begin until the beatings stop.” These beatings refer to the internalized and incessant stream of self-hating messages that we hear inside our head that we refer to as “me” or “I.”

Imagine what your life experience would be like if instead you heard messages of understanding, kindness, encouragement, and compassion. What might be different?

Enjoy that exploration.
Blessings,
Laura






Zen teacher Cheri Huber once said: “You are taught to believe that something is wrong with you and you are imperfect. Bu...
09/16/2025

Zen teacher Cheri Huber once said: “You are taught to believe that something is wrong with you and you are imperfect. But there isn’t, and you’re not.”
In my experience, this belief, that “something is wrong,” sits at the root of much of our suffering. We think life “should” be different. We think we (or others) should be different. And yet, as Cheri points to, that’s simply not true.

Check out the blog on our website!

Enjoy!!
08/04/2025

Enjoy!!

These celebration days are complicated as no one post can speak to every person’s experience. Mothering and being mother...
05/11/2025

These celebration days are complicated as no one post can speak to every person’s experience. Mothering and being mothered
ask 100 people about their experience with either and you will very likely get a response that is somewhere on the continuum of horrid —— to —— beautiful. Given that it would be impossible to reflect each of your experiences I offer you this cartoon. I find that humor is healing and I wish for you some humor in your day today, regardless of your mothering experience. If in your mothering experience you are currently having more joy than pain, Happy Mother’s Day. If in your mothering experience you are currently having more pain than joy, maybe you can push some sh*t off some counters and laugh. Offer yourself some safe, humorous & loving mothering.








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2333 1st Avenue, Ste 203
San Diego, CA
92101

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Tuesday 8am - 7pm
Wednesday 8am - 7pm
Thursday 8am - 7pm
Friday 8am - 3pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

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All individuals long for similar things: to feel loved, to be connected, to contribute to life and to receive acknowledgement for those contributions. At CFMR, we work to help you identify what is blocking you from the experience of joy, compassion, freedom, excitement, wisdom. This process can take many forms, some of which are best suited for individual, couples, family and group therapy. In an effort to provide an integrated approach to therapy, we also offer additional resources and/or referrals based on the specific needs of the client.