Counseling and Functional Fitness

In this episode, Adam Barfoot, M.Ed. talks about how to win wisdom, making your suffering count, and being forged in the fire of experience.

In this episode, Adam Barfoot, M.Ed. talks about the importance of asking for help, relationships that can help you become resilient, becoming wise, examples of resilience in counseling and functional fitness, confirmation bias, and how people can experience the exact same event and be impacted by it in very different ways.

In this episode, Adam Barfoot, M.Ed. defines resilience, he talks about how you can become resilient, how resilience applies to counseling, self-acceptance and self-improvement, the growth mindset, how you can learn from your own scars and wounds and those of others, and how you can learn from the hardship and difficult experiences that you have lived through and those that others have lived throu...

In this episode, Adam Barfoot, M.Ed. discusses failure, sacrifice, becoming your best self, the role that theories and philosophy play in life, counseling, and functional fitness, using challenges inside the gym and counseling office to face challenges well in the outside world, how your focus impacts your future, and putting an emphasis on becoming rather than being.

In this episode, Adam Barfoot, M.Ed. answers the question, “What is functional fitness?” Some takeaways from this episode: Functional fitness means that the things we do in the gym transfer into everyday life. We want to improve inside the gym so that we can be prepared for any physical challenge that life could present to us. Functional fitness is concerned with what your body can do, rather than...

In this episode, Adam Barfoot, M.Ed. answers the question, "What is counseling?"  Topics covered in this episode include definitions of counseling, misconceptions about counseling, sitting with people in between the hurting and healing, strengths-based counseling, and the core conditions of counseling, which are empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence. Disclaimer: In this podcast, A...