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College Students. What's up with online therapy? Is it like coaching? Is it like venting to someone? Are you going to make me cry? How would I even know if I need a therapist? Maybe I'm just stressed because college is stressful?
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1/8/2021 0 Comments Missing: Human ContactHuman contact is a powerful thing. The touch of a hand. A hug from a loved one. The feeling of banging against other bodies during football or another sport. Holding or being held by our special person.
These are all examples of human contact which probably are much less frequent in your life today due to the Coronavirus pandemic and local shutdowns. For some of us, it has become the “norm,” and others are grinding their teeth waiting for life to return to normal. But while we are all waiting, what can we do to supplement our missing human contact? You has been a year for the ages! No matter what your age, 2020 has been filled with challenging experiences. Whether it was a wildfire, Covid-19, or any of life’s many stressors, you might find yourself thinking, “I cannot wait for 2021”. That makes sense.
Life challenges, and really life changes, are hard for us to handle as human beings. We crave stability and even more importantly, we crave social interaction. These two things are in short supply here in 2020. While it might sometimes feel hopeless and like this is never going to end, there are a few things you can do to get through those more difficult days: 12/18/2020 0 Comments EMDR & Telehealth"Can a person really get any sort of benefit from trying to do EMDR online?" "How will they do it if they can't use the vibrating paddles or wear the headphones?" "This seems sketchy!"
I have been providing EMDR through telehealth and I've been seeing amazing results! 12/18/2020 0 Comments Do Online Sessions REALLY help????10/16/2020 0 Comments Walking AloneIn 1 Corinthians 7:7-9 the Apostle Paul lays it out that if a person can do it, then they should remain single and celibate; and if not, then it is better to marry. Many people feel a sense of aloneness when they do not have a romantic partner, and then that still, small voice in the back of their mind reminds them of scripts they've heard in the past: "You're not good enough," and "no one will love you." They begin to focus on the need for a romantic partner and the longing and lonely feeling begins to grow.
4/9/2020 0 Comments Who Can I Change?If asked, many of us might be able to rattle off things that others need to change, ways they have wronged us or thoughts on how they can do things better. We can probably even come up with some things about ourselves that need changing, but few of us respond positively when someone else provides the laundry list of things that they think we need to change. However, our interconnected relationships with family, friends, co-workers and even the driver next to us on the freeway, can cause us to have interactions, or observe people and internalized things others need to do or things that need changing.
3/31/2020 0 Comments Parenting in Covid19It's been a few weeks of social distancing. We've been balancing parenting 100%.
Typically our kids are in school for a few hours of the day, we're at work where we can interact with people our own age who don't really need anything from us. Adulting with other adults... 3/16/2020 1 Comment Mental Health During COVID-19So many people are feeling helpless and scared right now. They might still be getting up and going to work, they may be at home social distancing themselves, and they could also be trying to use the time to improve their social lives by having small get-togethers and "taking the risk" (that no one will get someone else infected). Regardless, there's still this undercurrent of worry.
2/17/2020 0 Comments The Path of EmpathySo much of the inner pain that plagues us is actually a sense of guilt and shame for something we've done, said, or a promise made and not kept. Our hearts go around and around, reminding us of the shameful thing in an effort to keep us from repeating the behavior.
Instead of walking towards good things because they are healthy for us and will make us happy, we walk toward the good things in an effort to avoid the repeated experience of guilt and shame. But in doing so, we bring that guilt along with us. We are going toward positive things while carrying the weight of our wrongdoings, and when we arrive at the destination it seems to pale in comparison with our expectations or with the way others are experiencing it. We wonder, "Why is this less bright? Why is it less joyful? Why can't I enjoy myself the way everyone else is enjoying themselves?" And you're disappointed. And frustrated. And feel hopeless. It's not fair. There's a piece in all of us that can feel disappointed. That piece feels disappointed in ourselves - disappointed for many different reasons, but they all add up to a sense that you did or you are something wrong or flawed, and that sense of wrongness becomes this golden thread weaving it's way through the rest of your experiences or self-concept. You might be able to truly be happy at times or genuinely be proud of yourself, but then there are other times where that disspointed feeling says, "yeah, but..." and it finds the way you could have been better. It discredits your joy.
2/10/2020 0 Comments Blog coming soon!Inspired Life Counseling is primarily a place where people show up for one-on-one conversations to heal their hearts, lives, and relationships. However, sometimes a short "conversation" between an author and a reader can launch a person's healing journey. In this blog space we hope to provide unique content about our perspectives on various life events and issues.
In the meantime, Jessica Wilkerson, LMFT has her own blog on her personal website. Please feel free to jump over and read things she has written over the course of the years. Then, come back and request an appointment to work with her in person! Click here: Jessica's Blog |
AuthorThe various therapists at Inspired Life Counseling contribute to this blog. Please look for the author of each individual blog to be listed at the bottom of the page for each post. Thank you. Archives
February 2021
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Inspired Life Counseling
Inspired Life Counseling is owned and directed by Jessica Wilkerson, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #104464.
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Inspired Life Counseling is owned and directed by Jessica Wilkerson, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #104464.
Office Hours: By Appointment Contact us!
MISSION: To provide a tranquil and healing space in which people in our community can find calmness internally through the relaxing atmosphere along with respectful and engaging therapy conversations. To contribute to happier and more secure families by helping individuals, couples, and teens heal within and thereby creating different ways of engaging with themselves, the world, and those they love.
VISION: Creating a new kind of therapy experience in the Chico area in which therapists have smaller caseloads, giving them the flexibility to spend more time with clients as needed - longer sessions, phone calls, client centered advocacy. Creating a space in our community where clients can go between sessions just to sit, linger, and re-center themselves when they're having difficult days. A place to belong while they heal their hearts and relationships. A therapy office that embodies the unconditional love of Christ no matter what a person's gender identity, romantic disposition, or previous life hardships, experiences, or actions might have been. To be a safe place.
VISION: Creating a new kind of therapy experience in the Chico area in which therapists have smaller caseloads, giving them the flexibility to spend more time with clients as needed - longer sessions, phone calls, client centered advocacy. Creating a space in our community where clients can go between sessions just to sit, linger, and re-center themselves when they're having difficult days. A place to belong while they heal their hearts and relationships. A therapy office that embodies the unconditional love of Christ no matter what a person's gender identity, romantic disposition, or previous life hardships, experiences, or actions might have been. To be a safe place.
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