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Bad Habits That Affect Your Mental Health and Small Steps Toward Changing Them
Exploring some common bad habits that can affect mental health and discuss strategies for making small changes that can lead to big changes.
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Embrace Stillness: Meditation, Anxiety Relief, and Discovering the Sacred in Everyday Life
It is January. I don’t know about you but December sends my nervous system into overdrive. Then hits the long, grey cold of January. It’s tempting to tune in to digital devices and external sources of entertainment to fill the Read more…
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Part 5: Boundaries Holiday Edition: A Guide to Maintaining Healthy Boundaries with Ourselves and Others During the Holidays
The holiday season, amid the twinkling lights and festive gatherings, often comes with a unique blend of joy and stress. While it’s a time for celebration and connection, it can also bring challenges that test our emotional resilience. One crucial Read more…
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Navigating Boundaries Between Parents and Teens: Part 4
A Brave New World Your teenager is entering a brave new world. And so are you. It can be hard to change and shift into a new way of parenting after over a decade of being with our kids. Navigating Read more…
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Part 3: Nurturing Love and Independence: Setting Boundaries with Your Children
Exploring Boundaries with Children Parenting is a beautiful journey filled with moments of joy, laughter, and immense love. However, it also comes with challenges, one of the most crucial being setting boundaries with your children. Establishing clear and healthy boundaries Read more…
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Part 2: The Art of Setting Boundaries in Relationships: A Guide to Healthy Connections
Introduction In the intricate dance of human relationships, boundaries play a pivotal role. They are the invisible lines that define the limits of our emotional, physical, and mental space within any given relationship. While setting boundaries may seem like a Read more…
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Boundaries in Relationships – Part 1: The Basics of Boundaries and How We Use Them to Feel Safe
Boundary Series In the next few posts we will be discussing the topic of building boundaries as a means of establishing and growing healthy relationships. This first one is all about the basics. You may have heard the word boundary Read more…
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Navigating Grief and Loss: Coping with Life’s Transitions
How do we deal with grief as a culture? We all have known grief in different levels of intensity. The loss of a pet, moving to a new place, the shifting friendship alliances of grade school, losing a romantic relationship, Read more…
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Abide Counseling is Adding a Location
Abide counseling has been serving Middle Tennessee from our Mount Juliet, TN location for some time. Now we are adding a new location in the Berry Hill neighborhood of the city of Nashville, TN. We hope that this new location Read more…
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Women in History – Changing the field of mental health
“…well-behaved women seldom make history.” ~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich from the book: Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich While Ms. Ulrich might have been originally imploring us to take a look at the well behaved women Read more…