Anchoring Hope Counseling, LLC

12/31/2025

Wishing you a beautiful new year with peace and love!

12/31/2025

12/31/2025

Happy New Year! 🎉

12/30/2025

💗 Keep people in your life who...
Celebrate your good news
Hold you accountable
Reciprocate effort
Are able to be vulnerable
Show up during your hard times
Are willing to communicate 💗

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12/30/2025

Some of the best days of your life haven't happened yet. Keep going.



Healing Hearts
Live Love Laugh

12/30/2025

Everyone waits for tomorrow.
They wait for Friday to arrive.
For vacations.
For more money.
For the perfect opportunity.

And while you wait, life passes.
Days move on.
Dreams get tucked away in a drawer.

Little by little, you convince yourself that there is still time.
Time to try.
Time to live.
Time to become who you feel you are inside.

But time does not warn you when it is about to end.
It does not ask for permission.
It runs.

And when you finally notice,
so much has already been left for later.

How many plans have you postponed?
How many words went unsaid?
How many choices did you leave for “one day”?

May each day be lived as a precious gift.
May every word be spoken with sincerity.
May every action carry purpose.

Because life does not wait.
And now is all we truly have.

DM - Daily Motivation by Alice

12/24/2025

Merry Christmas from all of us at Anchoring Hope ⚓️ (including the ones not pictured)

Wishing you peace and love 🎄

12/23/2025

Growing Around Grief is a model created by grief counselor Dr. Lois Tonkin. Tonkin came up with the model after speaking to a client about the death of their child. The woman told Tonkin that at first grief filled every part of her life. She drew a picture with a circle to represent her life and shading to indicate her grief. It was all-consuming.⁠
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She had thought that as time went by the grief would shrink and become a much smaller part of her life. But what happened was different. The grief stayed just as big, but her life grew around it. There were times where she felt the grief as intensely as when her child first died. But there were other times where she felt she lived her life in the space outside the circle.⁠
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This view of grief does not tell someone that their grief will go away in time. You will never be "over it." It acknowledges that there will be some days where you feel grief as strongly as you did when the person first died. But there will also be days when you are able to move on with other parts of your life.⁠
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The "growing around grief" model shows how we can still grieve the loss of our loved one while carrying on with our own lives. It shows that we can grow a new life which includes the loss.⁠

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✍️ Words by Cruse Bereavement Support

12/22/2025

First Day of Winter has Arrived December 21 !

12/22/2025

Perfection was never the goal.

The crooked trees, the handmade ornaments, the quiet moments and the loud laughter, that’s what lasts.

Years from now, I don’t want my kids to remember a flawless Christmas.

I want them to remember how it felt, warm, safe, loved, and full of memories we made together. 🎄

12/20/2025

Sending love

12/20/2025

A little reminder this Christmas: the value of a gift isn’t in the price, but in the heart that gave it. ❤️