Healing, Mindfulness, Acceptance

We create meaning from our pasts, events, and thoughts. Mindfulness can help us recognize when the meaning we are creating is not serving us. We can cultivate curiosity about the pain, suffering, and unhappiness in our lives. Looking through a lens of acceptance and inquisitiveness can open the door to non-judgement and self-compassion. Through that door, we can begin to heal.

Healing has been referred to as getting to a point where you can live in acceptance. Healing might mean living in wholeness and contentedness. Starting to heal can be letting go of the unnecessary suffering in life. Healing might be taking control of your own story. It can be touching on those things that are difficult and scary with love and compassion instead of fear and pain. Healing is getting back and increasing your capacity to experience joy!

I aim to help you find your own path to heal and what it will look like and mean for you. I provide counseling to allow you to thoughtfully consider the story you are living and how you want to move forward in that story. You are in control of deciding what healing is for you. I can help you regulate your nervous system so that the story is not as stress inducing. I can help you rewrite the story to help you feel whole and content. I can help you learn skills of self-compassion so you can move towards acceptance. This is your story, counseling can help you regain the feeling of control in writing and accepting it. 

The Work

What might it look like to do the work to heal old wounds? This is a personal question and will end up looking different for each individual. Therapy is the work of getting to know yourself, learning where those old thought patterns and beliefs come from, and finding the wounds that are still open and impacting us now. The work of therapy can be learning coping skills, developing mindfulness techniques, and increasing your tolerance for difficult emotions.

The work to heal can look like finding ways to use the new skills and techniques you learned in session and applying them to your daily life. It might be finding mindful awareness in the small things every day. It might look like training your brain to shift focus to gratitude. It might be creating breathing room and space for yourself to exist as you are, here and now. It might be connecting with parts of yourself that you forgot or did not even know existed. It can look like acceptance; for yourself, for others, for the things that happened, and for the possibilities that are still yet to come.

I hope to provide a space that helps you feel ready to explore your inner thoughts and feelings, get to know yourself better, and a welcoming environment for all aspects of you. Cultivating safety is part of the work. Finding ways to feel safe in your own body and own environment can be key for healing.

This may be developed through mindfulness work, grounding, and self check ins. We often notice when we are feeling off or something is not right, but how often do we notice calm or neutral feelings? Therapy can help develop a better internal sense and increase our capacity for difficult emotions or situations. With this increased capacity comes better acceptance. As we learn to deal with hard events or feelings, we also learn to heal.

Contact

Reach out today to see if I am a good fit for you as you move towards acceptance and contentment. I offer in-person sessions in Sugar Land, TX and telehealth services throughout the states of TX, CO, MA, and WA.