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The road to wellness is truly a two-way street that requires your active participation in order to arrive at your desired destination. It doesn’t happen in a vacuum and can effectively continue outside of therapy sessions and the four walls of Counseling Reimagined. Below you will find a carefully collected and cataloged series of books, therapy materials, educational videos, and websites that you might find helpful along your journey.
Self-Talk
This video discusses the importance of positive self-talk and ways to implement this in your everyday life.
https://www.healthline.com/health/positive-self-talk#practice-daily
Read about the pros and cons of positive and negative self-talk and helpful examples of changing the narrative when you are experiencing negative self-talk.
Mindfulness - Yoga
5 Simple Mindfulness Practices for Daily Life - Mindful
Learn about five simple ways to be mindful throughout the day.
A Mindful Inquiry: Calming the Rush of Panic - Mindful
Read about becoming mindful when you find yourself in a panic.
Gentle Mindful Yoga for Meditation
This 20-minute video leads you through different gentle yoga poses to calm the mind and restore the body.
Trauma
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/trauma
This article gives an in-depth definition of trauma and the types of trauma that exist. It also lists different therapies for those struggling with trauma.
How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
Nadine Burke Harris describes the implications of childhood trauma on a person throughout their lifetime. She explains the ACE Assessment, used when assessing trauma in the intake session.
Change/ Life Transitions
A Psychologist's Advice on How to Cope with Life Transitions
This article discusses ways to cope with life transitions and significant changes.
Eustress vs. Distress: When Your Stress Might Actually Be Doing You Good
Learn the difference between distress and eustress and how to utilize one to your benefit.
Journaling
5 Benefits of Journaling for Mental Health
This article gives the scientific reasoning behind why journaling is so effective. For it to be effective, it is important to be intentional. The article provides advice on making the most of your writing time. It also provides a document with example prompts.
There are different ways to journal, and this article explains some of them. It also provides 25 example prompts.
Self-Assessments
Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator RHETI
This assessment is $12. It gives a detailed breakdown of enneagram types and their relationship with themselves and others.
This free assessment allows you to learn more about your love languages. Clicking here will also help you learn about your apology language, appreciation language, and anger assessment.
Get to Know Your Greatest Strengths
This free assessment tests you on your core strengths and how to apply them. After getting your results, read more about your top 5 strengths by visiting the All 24 Character Strengths tab. Although our strengths change over time, it is helpful to know where we stand and what we would like to improve.
This assessment will help you learn about and understand your attachment style. Attachment impacts your relationships - both how you treat yourself and others.
Enneagram
The 9 Enneagram Numbers Explained
This video gives an in-depth explanation of each of the enneagram types.
The Nine Enneagram Type Descriptions
This website provides extensive information on each type, including what growth looks like, addictions, and recommendations.
Listen to a song by Sleeping at Last, made specifically for each enneagram type.
Visualizing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iPFtZENEq4
This video stresses the importance of using visualization for 30 seconds a day. This small amount of time has been shown to provide immense benefits.
Visualizing helps us reach our goals. Learn how by clicking here.
Generalized Mental Health Research
Resources to help you support your child's mental health.
This online resource provides information on important topics to help you grow your child's mental health.
Posts Written by Mental Health Professionals
This site provides a wide range of informative articles regarding mental health topics. It also helps connect individuals to therapy options in their area.
Helpful Phone Applications
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Headspace: This app offers guided meditation and mindfulness activities.
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Insight timer: This app offers hundreds of guided meditations, including sleep meditation.
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Elevate: This is an educational app that helps train the brain on a number of topics.
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Mind valley: This app allows you to choose goals and then take various classes based on those goals.
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Day one journal: This journaling app has numerous features that allow for effective journaling: images, voice recording, and set reminders.
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All trails: This hiking app provides detailed information about hikes around you.