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Thought Tonic Thought Tonic publishes a monthly newsletter highlighting original and curated resources for mindfulness, meditation, and mental wellness. His answer?

You can sign up at https://thoughttonic.com. Thought Tonic was founded by Scott B. Kahler (he/him), PhD, LMFT, CPC, a licensed therapist, certified life coach, and credentialed clinical supervisor. According to his mother, when Scott was very young – just 5 or 6 years old – he was asked what he wanted to do when he grew up. "To help people with what is in their heads.” This is the story behind the name, "Thought Tonic," as Scott intends the tools, tips, and other resources featured in the Thought Tonic newsletter to serve as a "tonic" to help subscribers slow their thoughts, clear their minds, and refresh their thinking for a greater sense of inner calm, emotional balance, and overall well-being. To sign up, visit https://thoughttonic.beehiiv.com/subscribe.

Are you having one of these days? Take care of yourself!
04/09/2024

Are you having one of these days? Take care of yourself!

Today feels like a two coffee, long lunch, camera off type of day. ☕️

04/09/2024

I believe that if you are judging yourself because anxiety arises at all, you are probably not being fair to yourself. Causes and conditions for something to arise are usually multi-layered, with what we can know and what we can sense, or only guess at, all intertwined and moving, making for the kaleidoscopic shifts of life.

Whether forces like anxiety or fear arise at all or not, they no longer have to govern our choices, our relationships, and our days, even with a moderate amount of meditation practice. When this happens to me, I take a deep breath, something that literally is not that hard to do, and make sure the out-breath is longer than the in-breath. If the in-breath takes four counts the out-breath may take six or eight. Breathing this way sparks the parasympathetic nervous system, the network of the body that governs activities that take place at rest, like digestion and sleep. By breathing into that dimension of yourself, you stimulate calmness.

Grounded in your own body, imagine feet growing roots so you stand solidly on the earth as the sky opens up around you. If you can stay grounded in your body and keep breathing, you can open to the fact that what is happening is painful. Moving it from bad to painful is a good thing. This may open the space that allows in lovingkindness for all beings everywhere.

I'm not sure who among you needs to hear this, but someone does!
09/08/2024

I'm not sure who among you needs to hear this, but someone does!

06/05/2024
06/05/2024

Today's lovingkindness practice 🥰

25/04/2024

Multiple things can be true at the same time. Give yourself the space to feel.

24/04/2024

Can you relate? 😂

24/04/2024

Friendly reminder to exist in the now, it’s all we’ve got.

29/03/2024

In this guided meditation, Kim Armstrong walks you through a simple practice to expand your capacity for gratitude in the everyday moments of life.

Stressed? Take a breather. Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and let that tension go. Image it dissolving into t...
29/03/2024

Stressed? Take a breather. Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and let that tension go. Image it dissolving into the air, like steam off a cup of hot coffee or tea. You deserve a moment of calm.

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Meet Scott Kahler

Scott Kahler is a licensed therapist, certified life coach, and credentialed supervisor at Thought Tonic, LLC, in Indianapolis, Indiana. He provides individual therapy, couples counseling, life coaching, and supervision. He has a niche helping adult clients who identify as struggling with anxiety, and often their self-esteem, to feel less controlled by worry, fear, and self-criticism so that they can live their lives with greater calm, courage, and confidence. He feels incredibly fortunate to be able to do for work what he has the sense of having been born to do. According to his mother, when Scott was very young – just 5 or 6 years old – he was asked what he wanted to do when he grew up; his answer was “to help people with what is in their heads.” This story is the inspiration behind the company name, “Thought Tonic”; this name reflects Scott’s intent that clients experience their time with him as a tonic, as refreshing their thinking and supporting their overall sense of well-being.

Scott’s Approach

As a collaborative, client-centered practitioner, Scott is dedicated to conversations in which clients themselves have the opportunity to identify and define what they want in their lives instead of the anxiety, worry, and stress that they may currently be experiencing. He explores with them the habits of thought, behavior, and other blocks that they see as getting in their way, and partners with them in confidence-building conversations about how they want to respond to these challenges to get more of what they want from themselves and in their lives, and less of what they don’t. He is curious about exceptions to problems, and what helps make these exceptions possible. Finally, Scott also talks with clients about how they want to use their time with him to support the plans that they develop, and how they want to incorporate the successes that they experience into their lives for results that last. His approach is often informed by ideas from cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and mindfulness practices.