Guide to Recognizing Your Emotions

Guide to Recognizing Your Emotions

Last week, we talked about emotions and how they are neither good nor bad, but we can use them to teach and inform us. We also talked about emotional vocabulary and properly naming the emotion you are feeling. If you missed that post, click here to read it before you...
Emotions: Good or bad?

Emotions: Good or bad?

When you think of emotions, like mad, sad, glad, do you automatically think that some of those feelings are “good” and some are “bad?” You are not alone if you tend to categorize emotions into those two categories. Many of us were raised and taught to think that some...
Living as Your True Self

Living as Your True Self

Do you feel tired, burnt out, frustrated, irritable? These feelings could be the result of so many things, but I am encouraging you with this post to examine whether it could be from the disconnect between living as your true self versus living as others expect you to...
Reflections from a Counselor

Reflections from a Counselor

So, it’s been officially a year since I opened the doors of Restorative Counseling Center. It has been an amazing year and with the new year rolling around, and the anniversary of opening the doors, I have had some time for some reflections on this past year and my...
My Word of the Year – 2020

My Word of the Year – 2020

Do you choose a word of the year, or have you in the past? It is another great way to have a focus for the year, instead of, or in addition to, making new years resolutions. You can read more about my word from last year here. If I am totally honest with you, I did...