Awareness: notices our reality without making harsh judgements Avoidance: distracts us from reality when we feel uncomfortable.     What Does An Avoidance Mindset Look Like? We can recognize an Avoidance mindset because it distracts us from reality when we feel...

Abundance trusts that there will be enough Scarcity fears that there will not be enough   3 Practical Steps to Growing an Abundance Mindset In our last mindset blog we discussed how clarifying values and creating a vision is a practical way to put an Abundance...

An Abundance mindset is not the absence of uncomfortable feelings, nor is it the guarantee of a blissful life.  Rather it embraces discomfort, affirms hope, and encourages movement rather than stagnation.  Abundance mindset empowers us to act in line with our values regardless of how we might feel.  When hope is hard to come by, the Abundance mindset intentionally remembers past wins and focuses on personal values and goals.  It trusts that there will be enough to go around.  In this mindset, we give things a try and release the outcome, understanding that we will be OK regardless.

Today we explore our first mindset pairing: Abundance vs Scarcity. As a reminder, we are discussing the difference between healthy and unhealthy mindsets because behavior follows beliefs. If we can change our beliefs, new behaviors will follow. I admit, this concept might seem overly simplistic, but it is sufficient to start growing in self-awareness so that you can get out of autopilot. We all need to start somewhere.

  Warning Signs for Suicide Most people don’t want to think about suicide as something their child is considering, however statistics show that suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death for people ages 15-24. According to the Society for the Prevention of Teen...

Why Your Mindset Matters Several years ago, my wife invited me to attend a workshop on Essential Oils and Emotions since it seemed like an interesting crossover of our two worlds – hers being Dietetics/Nutrition and mine being Counseling.  I’m always eager to hang...