The Art of Holding: Developing the Skills to Embrace Your Big Vision

Posted on April 6th, 2023

There’s a difference between desiring big things…and becoming the woman who can actually hold them. 

Ambition often feels like living between two worlds:

The one where you are now and the one where you know you’re meant to be.

If you aren’t intentional, the space between can begin to feel like you are in limbo, like your life is on pause until you get “there.” Like until your circumstances change, right now isn’t good enough.

Unconsciously, you begin to expect your big vision to come save you. “I’ll be happy when….”

And the longer it takes to arrive, the more your ambition feels like a curse.

You give away your power to circumstances, without realizing your big vision wasn’t yours to begin with—it was God’s.

And if your power is given to circumstances, rather than to yourself and your co-creation with God, then the “less than perfect” circumstances that come WITH the big vision cannot be held by you.

When you learn to anchor into your identity as the woman who is chosen, the woman who is anointed for God’s big vision to be birthed through you, you become the woman who is responsible enough to be a steward of it.

It can be easy to pray for the big vision…

but have you developed into the woman who can hold what comes with it?

Are you the woman who can:
Hold the pressure
Approach the tough conversations
Commit to the vision no matter what
Face criticism
Disappoint people
Use her voice
Lead when it’s hard to

Become her first. The rest responds to you. 

 

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~ Andi

 

 

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What are the Best Therapy Services for Better Family Life?

Posted on March 11th, 2022

People with cognitive fitness disorders often find “talk therapy” known as Family Adolescent Counseling Services, very beneficial. The type and duration of your therapy will count on your circumstance and insurance, and your therapy may be part of an overall treatment plan that includes medication or other treatment options.

Searching Therapist and Life Coach near Me and taking help from them can help you to handle your emotions, depressing attitudes, behavior, anxieties, expectations, past ordeals, and other areas that can stimulate your healing. Of course, discussing with a consultant about personal matters can be difficult, but it can benefit you to come to grips with dilemmas in your life. It can also give a sentimental release and a feeling of really being listened to, supported, and understood.

Family & Couple Therapy Services helps family communication, deal with disagreements, and give solutions to situations better. Forms of family therapy always are used for dealing with food habit disorders to bipolar disorder. Browsing Family Counseling near Me, and consulting them benefits people to improve an adequate understanding of their motivations and unconscious emotions that can influence their feelings and behavior.

Houston Family Counseling services can help you to feel decisive in the face of challenges, shift attitudes that hold you back, change the ways of thinking that impact how you feel, recover pains from the past, develop relationship skills, figure out your objectives, enhance your self-confidence, handle symptoms, deal with strong feelings like grief, anger or fear, improve your problem-solving skills.

There are numerous various kinds of therapy services, encompassing those that are very effective with groups of people like family or friends. You can discover your alternatives by speaking to a person you trust, like your family physician or church, with a person who has an understanding of cognitive fitness conditions, or with a professional at your nearby Mental Health America affiliate.

The following are a few Best Therapy Services:

  • CBT-Cognitive-behavioral therapy works well for anxiety, bipolar disorder, and depression but it can also be helpful for other various conditions.
  • ISR-Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy generally help well for bipolar syndrome because it also supports developing a daily schedule that benefits
  • Family & Couple Therapy helps families to express, deal with conflicts, and understand problems better. This therapy helps best treat food habit disorders and bipolar syndrome.
  • Psychodynamic therapy benefits people to develop a better understanding of their unconscious feelings and impulses that can affect their emotions and
  • Art therapy can comprise using dance, drawing, music, and other art aspects to help convey sentiments and stimulate
  • Psychoeducation helps a person understand cognitive health situations and paths to promote

In extension to several types of therapy, each service center has varied amounts and categories of training. For instance, a psychiatrist is equipped in therapy but also has a medical degree and can give prescriptions for medicine as well. A religious counselor will include a spiritual or religious technique in therapy. Other counselors may be educated to deal with substance use problems.

According to your circumstance, therapy can be relatively short or longer-term. Normally, people see their therapists once a week for fifty minutes. Your first session will be very different from your future visits. The preliminary visit is more of a “learning to understand you” session and will help the therapist have an idea of how, to begin with, your therapy. These therapies may not benefit you instantly. Over time, however, it can benefit you to improve more managing skills, healthier relationships, and a better understanding of yourself.

More precisely, Life Redefined Healing can enrich family connections by bringing the family together after a difficulty; Developing honesty between family members; definitely Instilling faith in family members; Reducing reasons of anxiety, Creating a supportive family environment; and lessening issues within the family.

 

THE THING IS NOT THE THING

Posted on June 30th, 2021

The Toilet Seat

Let’s face it. Living with another person is hard. Even in college with roommates, we got a little taste. Maybe Rachel or James never paid their portion of the rent on time, or maybe they always left dirty dishes in the sink, forcing others to clean up after them.

And you all thought, how crummy is that or maybe “can they really be that clueless?” In any case, when the time came to renew your lease with Rachel or James, the conversation probably looked something like an episode of the original Survivor show when they were voted off the island. Sorry, so-and-so, but we’re sick and tired of reminding you how to be a decent and responsible member of society. Well, fast forward to marriage, and sadly not much has changed, except now it’s men and women living together. Men generally have a propensity to leave their projects lying around, while a woman’s restroom area might look like a cosmetic counter at Macy’s. In both cases, it’s just normal until one of you gets tired of asking politely for them to please (through gritted teeth) put things where they belong. These seemingly trivial ins and outs of relationships make for good memes and even good fodder for sitcoms, mostly because we can all relate, but in real life, let’s face it. It gets a little old.

I use the toilet seat as the example, not because I’m making light of people’s problems, yours included. But I’m using it to highlight this principle. Whether the toilet seat is left up or down, whether the toilet paper goes over or under (it’s over by the way), the fact is none of these things is an insurmountable obstacle to using the toilet. If you really gotta go, flip the seat up or down, and I’m sure you can manage the toilet roll mechanism. The reason these things are so annoying is that they are representative of something bigger, something deeper.

Perhaps the time spent at golf is upsetting because of a lack in the relationship. Perhaps, the repeated requests to watch spending isn’t really about that $5 cup of coffee breaking the bank. So then what is it really about, and how can we move from the topic of discussion to the meat of the matter?

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As you can imagine, I’ve seen couples for dozens of reasons. Some are fighting to overspend. Others are fighting over not getting enough help with the kids or housework. Still, others are fighting over nickel and dime issues like how much time they spend on their hobbies, or maybe it’s on social media. And whether it’s finances, the in-laws, or frequency of sex, I can say in almost all the cases emphatically that the thing is not the thing.

 

DECODING THE MESSAGE

When I was younger, much younger, cereal boxes used to come with hidden toys for kids. One of my favorite surprises was the special spy decoder lenses. They were usually red-tinted, and the goal was to help you ‘decode’ the hidden spy message on the back of the cereal box. And here’s what I want to highlight; the message was always there. The issue is it was hidden,

usually among a jumble of other shapes and misinformation. However, once you placed the decoder lens over the image, there it was, plain as day. Oh, what I wouldn’t give to be able to help couples see this clearly through all the jumbled emotion and misinformation. In fact, one of the biggest services that I believe  I  provide as a couples therapist is acting as a sort of translator, a decoder if you will. I get to

see couples in front of me, wrought with emotion, oftentimes bickering or arguing in front of me or recounting some instance of miscommunication between them in the last week. And almost every single time, both people feel like they’ve made themselves clear about why they’re hurt or upset, but conversely, they seem to be just as confused as to what their partner needs or wants. Many times, I have to run through the event with them play-by-play, if you will, pausing here or there to help them decode the missed messages that both of them are sending.

 

We must move from the topic of discussion to the meat of the matter.

JOSHUA CASTRO, LPC

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Discover the Power of Self-Care to Fight Stress

Posted on June 29th, 2021

SELF-CARE TO FIGHT STRESS

ANDREA R. JOHNSON

Chronic stress and anxiety can wear you out. However, self-care can be a powerful remedy that restores your mind and body.

Try these self-care techniques to find relief for your stress:

  1. Make your health a You may have stress coming from multiple directions such as work, school, family, kids, neighbors, or others. However, it’s important to establish your health as a top consideration. Find a balance between taking care of others and taking care of yourself.
  2. Understand the fundamentals of self-care. Self-care is a conscious effort to put yourself first. It requires you to take time for activities that nourish and sustain your body, mind, and spirit. When you prioritize taking care of yourself, you build a lifestyle that focuses on healthy choices. Build self-care into your daily habits, such as eating a healthy breakfast and exercising.
  3. Start with one healthy habit a day. If self-care isn’t a normal part of your life, it may be difficult to get used to it. However, you can start with one small habit and you’ll see positive changes. By implementing one healthy habit each day, you’ll begin your journey of taking better care of yourself. The habit can be a tiny change, such as eating oatmeal for breakfast or having a salad for lunch. The key is to pick something small that is easy to do. Then, you can build from this foundation and add other habits. If you try too many activities at once, you’re likely to get overwhelmed or discouraged
  4. Find your own path. It’s easy to get caught up in the self-care practices that others use. However, it’s more effective to find your own path to wellness. Find the tips and habits that work best for your lifestyle. You may not have time to eat a healthy lunch or exercise every day. There are other ways to take care of yourself. Be willing to experiment with different ideas to figure out which self-care practices work well for you.
  5. Continue growing. It’s not enough to add one self-care habit and move on. Stress will continue to be a factor as long as you’re on this planet. It’s important to discover new self-care habits to alleviate your stress. Over time, the stress may come from different directions. For example, if your job is going well, you may suddenly discover issues at home. If your family life is fine, you may be worried about getting laid off. You may feel overwhelmed at times and as if you’re taking steps back. Nevertheless, continue forward and make self-care a top priority.

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As your life changes, your self-care habits will also change. You might find that oatmeal for breakfast starts causing stomachaches, or injuries that prevent you from exercising every day. Self-care can come from multiple channels. You can change things up and still find success.

 

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“Self-care is a vital part of staying healthy and maintaining wellness.” Andrea R. Johnson

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