#Counselling

[itscassc]

the way you talk to yourself matters too.

#mental health #self care #recovery #recovery blog #gentle reminder #be kind to yourself #be kind #healing #mentalhealthawareness #positive mental attitude #support #therapy #counselling #floral #cortagecore #fairycore #fairy aesthetic #peace #inner peace

[faithhopeloveandtherapy]

6 Feb 24 // Final counselling session (6 of 6) today

She had either forgotten I was coming, or she had lost track of the time, as she was definitely not expecting me when I knocked on the door. She tried to cover but I actually think she had forgotten. She went into another room to “just shut the door” and I could hear her shuffling papers like she was trying to find the stuff relevant to me. I don’t have a problem if she’d forgotten I was coming that day as I have rescheduled every appointment since the first one and none of them have been at the same time same day, so it’s not like it would be if T had forgotten about a session.

I am (finally!!) back in a good place and my counsellor could tell. She said I had a whole different energy about me today. It’s so good to feel back like myself after almost five months of miserableness. I don’t think counselling has been a magic wand, but she has walked alongside me and supported me as I’ve gone through this whole (lack of) process with work, and just knowing I have her on my side has been such an anchor and a comfort.

#counselling #counseling

[thecaringcounsellor]

A motto I live by 💜

What's one of yours?

#inspiration #mental health #mental illness #motivation #positive #positive mental attitude #self care #self love #self help #counselling #mental health tips #mental health support

[waterlikequotes]

“Choosing yourself won’t result in losing the right people. If choosing yourself (setting a boundary/engaging in self-care) results in losing them, question their motivation for being in your life. Why does protecting yourself hurt them? What do they gain from your self-neglect?”

#self awareness #self confidence #self care #self love #self hate #note to self #self help #mental health #mental help #mental heath support #counselling #psychology #dailyremindersx #reminder #reminders #daily reminder #advice #positive mental attitude #mental therapy #mental positivity #mental stability #mental growth #personal growth #inspiring quotes #quote #quotes #post #Instagram #advices

[poetrybyonur]

If I can’t physically hold you, then I’ll hold you with my words.

Today is World Mental Health Day. Mental health impacts all of us, whether we suffer from it or not, because if not ourselves, we all know someone, a relative, a friend or a colleague who may be struggling with it. Help them to seek professional help. If you can’t give them a hug physically, then touch them with your words. Just be there for them if you can. You might just be the difference that helped them.

#poets on tumblr #love quotes #love poetry #romantic poetry #love poem #onurtaskiran poetry #romantic writer #gentleman poet #poets and writers #love #world mental health day #mental wellness #therapy #counselling #psychotherapy #care #kindness #understanding #help

[hjellacott]

Maybe it's because I'm a Ravenclaw, a pedantic nerd and so on, but I find connecting with the academic side of Tumblr fascinating. Like, some of you'all are out there being doctors, teachers, engineers, astronomers... And I get to know you here with your walls down, sending stupid memes and making us laugh.

Go on, give me your "fields of expertise" if you wish! I'd love to hear what everyone's up to, even if it's stuff like videogaming or cat-collecting. Tell me what you're great at, I'd love to support you!

#psychology #communications #acting #film-making #theatre #counselling #advertisement #media #photography #videography #languages #careers #personal #jobs #what do you do #academics #academia #cats #dogs #ravenclaw #pendantic #nerd #nerds #university #teaching #bilingual

[momentsbeforemass]

Forgive and road sign

“I will never forgive you.”

When that’s our first unedited, unfiltered response? It’s a sure sign that someone has really hurt us. That what they did cut us. Deeply.

There’s nothing wrong with feeling that way.

But there is a danger in feeling that way. And it comes – not from feeling that way – but from holding onto it.

From allowing it to replay in our thoughts. Allowing how we were hurt by someone to replay in our thoughts does nothing to the person who hurt us. But it hurts us all over again, each time we do it.

If what they did to us is like being pushed down the stairs? Then allowing what they did to us to replay in our thoughts is like pushing yourself down the stairs.

This is why Jesus commands us to forgive in today’s Gospel. Not because the people who pushed us down the stairs deserve anything from us.

But because God loves us too much to let us push ourselves down the stairs again. And again.

“So that I means I just have to forgive and forget?”

No. That’s how God works.

When God forgives us, God forgets everything that’s He’s forgiven.

It’s why one of the saddest things that you and I can do to ourselves is beat ourselves up over something that God has already forgiven. When we drag something back to God that He has already forgiven us for, God has no idea what we’re talking about.

But that’s not how you and I work.

For us, it’s not “forgive and forget.” It’s “forgive and road sign.”

Forgive so we can let go of what they did. And any claim we have against them – no matter how right we may be.

Forgive so we can stop allowing it to replay. So we can let go of how it feels.

Forgive so we can stop letting them live rent-free in our heads. So they can’t hurt us again.

Don’t forget. Hold on to that hard-earned wisdom. But keep it only as a road sign.

Keep it on the road, to give the warning. If we ever head down that road again.

And if we never head down that road again? Let it rust.

Don’t try to forgive on your own. Take it to God in prayer.

Follow God’s lead when it comes to forgiveness.

And if He puts the question in your heart, “should I go to counselling?” You know the answer. Go.

God loves you too much to let you live another day without the joy that comes from forgiveness. Or the freedom that comes from a good road sign.

Today’s Readings

#Forgive #Forgive and Forget #God #Jesus #Catholic #Christian #Church #Counselling #Forgiveness #God's Forgiveness #Road Sign #Moments Before Mass

[fiction-quotes]

I knew what he wanted to hear. He couldn't stand me being sick. Nobody can. They only want to hear that you're healing, you're in recovery, taking it one day at a time. If you're locked into sick, you should stop wasting their time and just get dead.

  —  Wintergirls (Laurie Halse Anderson)

#book quotes #psychological fiction #ya fiction #laurie halse anderson #wintergirls #mental health #mental illness #eating disorders #anorexia #disability #ableism #recovery #sickness #toxic positivity #therapy #counselling #psychology #impatience

[kiindr]

studying counselling has to be one of the best things i have done in my undergrad academic life so far.

we were learning about counselling skills in class and one of the things we covered was about how nonverbal gestures matter in a therapeutic setting.

doing a few simple things like nodding your head, humming affirmatively, leaning forward, maintaining appropriate eye contact (not too much or too little!), and keeping an open body language can go a long way in helping a person feel seen and understood.

we can even take these skills outside the counselling room and apply them to our interpersonal connections. i’m sure we’ll see them getting improved, and our loved ones feeling closer to us because we do something as simple as ‘paying attention’ :)

#mental health #mental health awareness #mental health support #mental health reminders #coping #positivity #reminders #therapy #wellness #kindness #counselling

[glitched-dawn]

So.

My caretakers (not fucking parents I refuse to call them that) are constantly scolding me for coming late class, since my lunch is too short and I am physically incapable of eating in the cafeteria. I know it isn't dangerous, but I am so fucking paranoid and anxious that I can't handle that anymore.

So I've taken to walking home each lunch, one kilometer home (downhill then uphill when I go back) to make lunch, eat it, use the restroom and go back, in 45 or even 40 minutes. Of course, I've gotten better at walking home faster and eating faster, but you don't want to get better at that.

So of course, I've brought this up with the school counsellor. He said he'd try and help me solve it, maybe through getting food from the staff and eating somewhere else etc.

But the thing is that I want to eat alone. I fucking hate hearing myself chew, and it's even worse when there are people all around me that hear me, see me and chew themselves and oh I fucking HATE it

And I was supposed to start this eating-with-staff-or-something-thing on Tuesday, and now it's Wednesday. And my caretakers don't allow me to go home and eat anymore. Worse than that, is that we had a meeting with my mentor two days ago. Where she explicitly told them that my health matters more than school, always.

So guess what they do? They say that I can't be fucking sick anymore. They say that I can't go home because I'm sick anymore, because my attendance is too low. Right after my mentor says she doesn't care if I'm sick, that my health is more important than school, my caretakers pull this shit card on me.

Well, I'm gonna be a little more sparing with my sick days. But the eating-with-staff-thing? That shit can go straight down the drain. I'm going to contact the counsellor again, and tell him that I don't want things to just get better so I can move on the same again, I want things to fucking change.

So naturally, I haven't eaten lunch in two days.

#rant #this is such a fucking problem #i'm so fucking upset over this #problem #counselling #school problems #shit parents #shit caretakers #mental illness #mental health #mental issues #struggling #thoughts from the abyss

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Family Services Saskatchewan (FSSK) will expand its services for children, youth and their caregivers thanks to new annual funding from the Saskatchewan government.

On June 14, the province announced $1.7 million for FSSK to expand free, rapid access counselling services across the province with Regina and Saskatoon being the first communities to launch the services.

According to a release, the Mental Health and Addictions Minister stated this is an important expansion for services to those they tend to serve. From stress, depressions, family conflict, addictions and domestic violence, children, youth and their caregivers can access support.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #canadian politics #canadian news #canada #canadian #saskatchewan #family services saskatchewan #FSSK #mental health #mental healthcare #counselling #children #kids #families

[achelois-apate]

Some reading for my Theory class 📖🏳️‍🌈

#counselling #Psychotherapy #psychology #study #studyblr #study motivation #student

[faithhopeloveandtherapy]

The counsellor I saw yesterday works from her home and she’s about a 30 minute drive from my house. I didn’t get any choice in who I saw, the organisation literally just texted me an appointment time and an address. I think because it’s free through my employer, and I’d said I wanted face to face not over the phone, maybe that limits where there’s availability. Anyway I don’t mind the drive, it gives me a bit of space to think, and it keeps it nice and separate from home.

I found her address and parked outside, and walked through her big front garden to the front door, which had a sign saying “use the back door”. So I wandered round to the back and was just wondering which of the various doors I was meant to go to (there were a couple of garden buildings as well as the house), when she opened the back door and welcomed me in.

Her counselling area is just inside the back door. A bit like a conservatory although I don’t think it was. She showed me where to sit and she sat the other side of the plastic screen and I was a bit like woah this isn’t very friendly. Not a fan of that. She made a bit of small talk about whether I’d found the house ok etc and then we moved on to the reason I was there. I basically just ranted for 50 minutes… tried to explain everything that happened although I doubt whether she could follow all the details as there’s four different social workers involved, three different foster children and two separate adoptions. So a lot to make sense of, but she probably got the gist.

I think I feel afterwards like she was a bit too nice. I guess it was just a first session and we are still getting to know each other and she’s just listening and not challenging. But she basically just agreed with everything I said, and nodded and empathised and said to think about what a great job I’d done for the children and to hell with the social workers. I have friends that can tell me that. Then she said oh we’re running out of time, and I was like, oh how long even is the session? I couldn’t see a clock anyway so I’d no idea.

I think we went about 10 minutes over as she got me to fill in a well being questionnaire, and then she said she’d show me a technique to engage my logical brain with my emotional brain when I was thinking about all this situation. She talked me through doing bilateral tapping with my fingers on my legs… I’m a little bit sceptical but I’ll give it a shot. She’s away now for a few weeks (great timing huh) so my next appointment isn’t till the end of November. I can have 6 sessions, and then if we need more she can apply for another 6 I think. I hope it’s going to help. We also spoke briefly about my dad because I just wanted to get that on her radar too, but there wasn’t time to open anything up about that.

I can’t remotely imagine getting attached to her at the moment. Which is fine, I am not here for that. T is still occupying the My Person space, even though she isn’t my person in a therapeutic way anymore. Maybe it’s that my internalised model of T is My Person now, so really I’ve become my own person… is that a thing?

#counselling

[awhitehead17]

Day by Day - Chapter 23

Chapter preview:

The next week blurs by. Tim becomes swamped with school work and homework, most of which is all preparations for the impending finals.

He doesn’t want to jinx it, but Tim is beginning to feel better in himself. His headache last week is nothing now but a past memory, he’s been nightmare and flashback free all week which is a nice but suspicious change and he’s not feeling so overwhelmed with everything anymore either.

During the week he and Jason spent one evening facetiming their family. Cass and Damian phoned in from the Manor, with a cameo from both Bruce and Alfred, and Dick phoned in from Bludhaven. It was a great evening which Tim thoroughly enjoyed as he always does when he spends time with his siblings, in person or not.

His relationship is going as well as it can be, Kon isn’t out yet but they make time for each other in the evenings after school or if they can’t meet they at least text and call. While Tim doesn't like the distance they have in school he doesn’t comment on it because he understands why it’s there. After what happened the other day on the couch Tim can’t stop smiling to himself, they haven’t done anything sexual since then but it’s a next step in their relationship and he couldn’t be happier about it. He’s not going to pressure Kon but he can’t wait until they do more, even if it’s a repeat of that or something else.

#day by day #tim drake #conner kent #young justice #counselling #batfamily #timkon #friendship groups #angst #communication #fanfiction #dc comics #teenage drama

[wecandoit]

Hi friends, with uni starting up again I've been really motivated and grateful, but I am going through a lot mentally and emotionally with family stuff (more than usual lol) so I was considering using the uni counselling service. The qualm I have is that I only get access to four sessions for free, and then can have only six more for the year (billed). I'd rather not start at all than be cut off from sessions before I can reap the benefits...

That's why I wanted to ask anyone who has used university- or college-based counselling services what your experience of it was. you can just answer in the poll, but i'd also really appreciate if you could tell me more about it in my inbox if you're open to it

#counselling #mental health #emotional wellbeing #emotional health #student life #student health #university counselling #counselling services #mental health services

[secondwheel]

Humour is a form of therapy? Reblog if you agree

#therapy #counselling #mental health #comedy #reddit memes #reddit #twitter #twitter memes #humour #humor #humor blog #humour blog #funny #relatable #memes #meme #student memes #insidesjoke #low