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Action Steps for Utilizing Coping Skills

Guest blog by Samantha McGovern, LCPC, CRSS Do you find it difficult to implement the skills you have learned to support and maintain wellness? Oftentimes, the struggle doesn’t necessarily lie with what to do, but how to do it, or how to keep doing it. For example, it is easy to tell yourself to use […]

Recovering from Mental and Emotional Exhaustion

A few years ago I shared an article regarding signs of mental and emotional exhaustion on our Life Care Wellness Facebook page. The article was originally posted by the Unexpected Project, a worthy endeavor giving a voice to survivors of pregnancy-related death and near-death in the US, started by a college friend of mine, Anne […]

What is the Felt Sense?

Guest blog by Susan Pelton, PhD., SEP   If you have engaged in any form of somatic therapy, you likely were encouraged to notice your felt sense. But have you ever wondered, “Just what is the felt sense?” A good way to understand the felt sense is by noticing it experientially. Let’s do that through […]

Is It Stress or Burnout?

  guest post by Sarah Van Meter, LCSW Language is constantly evolving and changing. Sometimes words change meaning or will even become interchangeable with others. In recent years, I have noticed that many of my clients are using the terms stress and burnout interchangeably. For some people these concepts are the same thing; however, they […]

5 Somatic Experiencing Techniques That Anyone Can Use to Stay Grounded

As the mental health community becomes more adept at healing that incorporates the whole person (mind, body, spirit, and emotion), the role the body and sensation play in your healing process is growing ever more important. Previously it was thought it was enough to just “talk it out.” Now, research is uncovering growing evidence about […]