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Aug 31 2010

COMING HOME TO YOURSELF

Karen Walsh, LCI, Life Coach

“This is not who I am. This is not who I want to be. This is not who I was born to become.” Have you ever felt this way, or are you struggling with these emotions right now? If so, you probably think something is wrong with you, or your life. Actually, these honest feeling are healthy, and quite normal. These feelings are nudging you not to sleepwalk through life, but to mindfully examine on how you are spending your time, and how you are using your gifts. These feelings don’t necessarily mean you need a new job, new location to live, or new relationships. What you need is already inside you. Like a sculptor, you need to chip away at the “stuff” that is in the way of your true inner being.
How do you go about “coming home to yourself”, and living the life you were meant to live? The first step is realizing you want more out of the life you have already created. You’ll need time. This is no race, and there are no material prizes for reaching your goal. What you will receive is peace, knowing you are honoring your true self.
Although you can certainly take this wonderful journey on your own, I invite you to join a group of like-minded people to help you on your way. You will need times of solitude, and time to reflect and journal, but coming together once a week to share your discoveries, share your challenges, and celebrate your successes makes the journey a joy, and keeps you from going back to sleepwalking through your life! We will explore finding work, or volunteer opportunities that ignite our passions, ways to move beyond instant gratification and materialism, and how to let go of worry and anxiety to live a calmer, more balanced life.
Please join us at Life Skills Resource Group Orlando starting Thursday, September 23, to explore “Perfectly Yourself. 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness”, based on the book by Matthew Kelly. This new life coaching series led by Cindy Fabico, MA, LMHC, and Karen Walsh, LCI certified Life Coach, is an 8 week course that will be held on Thursday mornings, 10:30- 12:30, and in the evenings from 7:30-9:30. Click here to go to the groups page for more details and registration information. Don’t wait- it’s your turn to meet wonderful new friends, and find the happiness that comes from being “Perfectly Yourself”!
Karen To read more about Karen’s work at Life Skills Resource Group

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Aug 07 2010

MOVING IS LIKE COUNSELING

Published by Amysmith under Amy Smith, Counseling helps take a life inventory, Create positive self statements that resonate with you, Eliminate negative self talk, Free Phone Consultations, Heal past losses, Looking at your life from a new perspective, Making choice to see counselor is courageous, Move your life in a new direction, Moving is like counseling, Overcome worries and anxiety, Role of the counselor, Take a life inventory, Therapy helps self understanding, Therapy is a co-creative process, Therapy that resolves Anxiety, Therapy that resolves Low Self Esteem, Tools for a better life, Use life's difficulties to create growth and change, change can happen through counseling, counseling is a confidential environment, gain new perspectives, life changing experience, power of counseling, share thoughts and feelings, unconditional positive regard

Amy Smith, MS, Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern

I am currently in the middle of a move and as I have been packing I have noticed some of the similarities between packing and counseling. Moving is about closing old doors to make way to open new ones. It is a time to clear out old items in your closet that you no longer need or want. You may clean areas of your home that you have not seen in a while. Moving also affords you the opportunity to donate items to others who may need them more than you. It’s a time to buy new things and create new spaces. For me, it is also a time to reflect on the memories attached to the home and each item as I pack them. I also vision new memories that I will be making in my new home. Like moving counseling offers the opportunity to clean out and make changes to different areas of your life.

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Jun 26 2010

UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD

Published by Kim under Free Phone Consultations, Kim Murphy, Role of the counselor, Therapy helps self understanding, Therapy is a co-creative process, Why friends and loved one's are not good counselors, share thoughts and feelings, unconditional positive regard

Kim Murphy, MA, Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern

Kim Murphy, MS, Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern

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May 31 2010

MEMORIAL DAY THOUGHTS

Published by Jes under EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, Free Phone Consultations, Grief and Loss, Jessica Stage, PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Rapid Trauma Resolution using Clinical Hypnosis, Self Care, Self medicating with drugs and alcohol, Survivors Guilt, Therapy that resolves grief, power of counseling, share thoughts and feelings

Jessica Stage, MSW, Registered Clinical Social Work Intern

Memorial Day weekend is upon us. For some of us it means a weekend at the beach. Going to barbeque and picnics with friends and families. Unfortunately, for many American families Memorial Day can bring on the grief of the loss of a loved one who was in the military. These men and women have made the ultimate sacrifice, leaving behind parents, spouses and children whose lives will forever be changed. Soldiers are usually in the prime of life, with new families and parents who never wanted to outlive their children. The loss of a soldier may have been recent or many years ago, but family members may have a harder time around holidays such as Memorial Day where much of the news coverage and even advertisements mention soldiers and the armed forces.

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May 17 2010

NO MAN IS AN ISLAND

Published by Garrett under Find joy in living, Find peace of mind, Free Phone Consultations, Fully develop your life potential, Garrett Fabico, Looking at your life from a new perspective, Therapy helps self understanding, Therapy that resolves Depression, Therapy that resolves Pain, benefits of community, community of friendship and acceptance., creating the life you want, power of counseling, share thoughts and feelings

Garrett Fabico

One valuable lesson that I have learned in my life is that people often carry burdens that are comfortingly similar to the struggles that other people have survived. Deep and indescribable discontent; disconnectedness with the people around you; love and lovelessness; lack of direction and desire for meaning; these feelings, along with their inverses, are themes of the human condition. But when the moment and the feeling are consuming you, the life you live and the pain you know can feel like something that no soul on Earth has ever borne witness to. The truth is, though, it is far from uncommon to feel hopelessly alone, betrayed, maladjusted, or disconnected. There have been countless numbers of humans before you that have known similar pains, and there will be countless others ahead of you for whom life’s burdens that you have already experienced yet await.

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Apr 04 2010