Mindful Montana Wellness

Mental health issues are not just in your brain but in the body too.

Understanding why we are the way we are in relationships can help us stop repeating the same bad relationships over and over.

You can make any decision you want based on what you think, feel and need.

Counselors are human too.

Sometimes the things we think we need to be happy and successful are not the things we get and that is okay.

There are only two words you need to know in order to change anything you think and those two words can change your life.

Trauma can cost a mental, emotional, and physical debt if left unprocessed.

Taking breaks, complete breaks from your everyday life is a valuable component of healthy mental health.

Winter can bring on many things such as hibernation behaviors, lack of motivation and even depression.

We constantly give grace to other people in forgiveness, kindness, tolerance but we do not often give grace to ourselves.

Who are you really beyond the beliefs you have been conditioned to believe.

The only way to happiness and peace is to tell yourself a different truth about the things you believe about yourself.

The sun is a very powerful dopamine projector and soaking up some of it can keep depression minimized.

There are many hard words in therapy but the hardest for many is the word Acceptance and it is necessary for change.

No situation or person will ever make you happy if you are not happy with yourself first.

Many times we can believe that some of life's hardest questions have no answers.  In reality, there is always an answer but it may not be one we are willing to accept.

Margin is the space that allows us to address our own mental, spiritual and physical health and it can be used up by doing for others instead of ourselves.

Fear of change can keep you stuck and prevent you from making healthy, positive changes to your life.

A lack of margin results in there being no pause between emotion and response leading to explosions of feelings, words and actions.  Learn how to build in a pause even if your margin is short.

Learn to let go of the emotions and experiences that weigh you down with negative thoughts just like clouds floating by in the sky.

Despite all we think we know about what is going on in the world thanks to 24/7 Internet coverage, our neighbor could be on the brink of ending their life and we cannot take the time to know this.  Why not try love instead and reach out to those around you.

Every single thing in the universe is changing every single moment in time and change comes to us all whether we want it to or not.  Change is unavoidable and absolutely necessary for growth.

A daily practice of gratitude and thankfulness brings an abundance of joy and focuses your brain on what is good in your life instead of being trapped by negative thoughts.

Self-care is not selfish it is sustainability.  Taking care of yourself allows you to have sustainable energy, emotions and spirit for other people and other things.  

The seventh habit in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Sharpen The Saw is about renewal and care of yourself so that your vessel may be filled to pour into all the other areas of your life.