Mindful Moments

This 20 minute acceptance and commitment therapy inspired meditation gives you a healthy way to process emotions. So often, we tend towards avoiding and hoping to eliminate challenging emotions. In this meditation practice, we instead will turn towards our emotions, allow them to be present, begin to understand them and ride out the wave of any actions (urges) they are leading us towards. Taking a...

Observing and allowing your thoughts to be present is a strong mindfulness skill to use, especially when dealing with anxious thoughts. To be able to observe and allow your thoughts to exist without making meaning of them all of the time ushers in peace and acceptance. This meditation guides you through practicing and cultivating this life changing skill while easing anxiety, worry and overthinkin...

10 Minute Morning Meditation For A Calm Mind This guided meditation is created by Katie McLaughlin, LPCC-S, founder of Cedar Rose Counseling & Wellness—a holistic therapy practice specializing in anxiety treatment for women. This meditation is rooted in evidence-based practices to help calm your mind. For deeper support:   I offer holistic anxiety therapy for women in Ohio (in-person West Ches...

This calming Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Meditation is designed to relax the body while easing an overthinking mind. A 10 minute meditation will not get rid of your thoughts, as the brain was designed to think, create, plan and make meaning. However, this meditation will assist you with releasing your grip on the thoughts that cross your mind so they no longer have as a great a hold on you....

This 15 minute guided breathwork for relaxation practice will teach and guide you through the 4-7-8 breathing strategy. This breathwork practice is designed to bring relaxation and grounding to your day, while activating your parasympathetic nervous system. It is only when the parasympathetic nervous system is activated and when the mind feels safe that anxiety relief can occur. This 15 minute gui...

The breath can change quickly when the body feels stressed. This practice is designed to help you reconnect with a deeper, fuller breath so your mind and body can feel calm again. This guided meditation is created by Katie McLaughlin, LPCC-S, founder of Cedar Rose Counseling & Wellness—a holistic therapy practice specializing in anxiety treatment for women. This meditation is rooted in evidenc...

This meditation practice is designed to release tension from the body while calming the mind and nervous system so you are able to drift off and get restful sleep. This guided meditation is created by Katie McLaughlin, LPCC-S, founder of Cedar Rose Counseling & Wellness—a holistic therapy practice specializing in anxiety treatment for women. This meditation is rooted in evidence-based practice...

This progressive muscle relaxation practice is ideal for helping you detach from your anxious thoughts and to ground yourself in your body. Not only does this type of practice provide a sense of grounding and safety within the body, it also aids with increasing awareness of when tension is being held within the body. This awareness is key for noticing those first signs of stress and anxiety so we...

Being able to detach and observe your thoughts is a pivotal skill to cultivate for effective anxiety management and healing. This practice gives you a taste for how to observe your thoughts with the assistance of some guided imagery. Please remember that: - You are not your thoughts. - Just because you think something doesn't automatically make it true - You actually get to decide what to beli...

This practices gives you some insight into your brain's innate protective mechanism which often leads to those not so helpful thoughts and feelings of despair. During this season of gratitude, let us acknowledge the well-intentioned purpose of our own negativity bias while also cultivating a deep sense of gratitude and peace within our mind, body and soul. This guided meditation is created by...

Finding comfort in a heavy world can feel challenging at times. Whether you are feeling heaviness in your personal life or from worldly events, I pray this practice gives you some time to be still and find comfort in the ever present nature of your breath This guided meditation is created by Katie McLaughlin, LPCC-S, founder of Cedar Rose Counseling & Wellness—a holistic therapy practice speci...

This anxiety relief meditation is designed to help you cultivate mindful awareness while releasing stress and anxiety stored in the body. These 8 minutes are intended to be a self-care gift. Taking time to care for your mind and body is not only important, but is necessary for the health of your mind and body. This anxiety relief practice will help you to feel calm, grounded, and at peace as you a...

Take a load off with this 6.5 minute meditation practice as you turn inwards and gift yourself with a bit of peace and inner stillness. This meditation practice to find inner stillness will give you a few minutes to breathe, reflect and contemplate what is truly important to you. So often we forget that we are capable of being our own encourager; of providing ourselves with compassion and kindness...

This 7 minute meditation to cultivate gratitude will lead you through a simple breath focused grounding practice while allowing you to reflect on the good things in your life. If you are looking for a simple daily practice with the power to lead to big change in your life, and the rewiring of your brain, it’s time to try gratitude. Gratitude is a powerful practice which has been proven to lead to...

Struggling to focus or stay present? This therapist-led meditation for concentration helps you develop the skill of focused attention — without trying to force your thoughts to stop. In this short and simple practice, you’ll learn how to gently redirect your mind back to the breath, even as distractions arise. Whether you’re dealing with overthinking, mental fatigue, or difficulty staying on task...

Sometimes all we need is to take a little extra time in the morning for a simple mindfulness practice in order to get our day started well. This meditation practice is just about 8 minutes and will allow you to ease into your day while being reminded that your breath can act as your calming anchor when life becomes too much. This guided meditation is created by Katie McLaughlin, LPCC-S, founder of...

This 8 minute breath focused mindfulness meditation takes you through both guided and unguided spaces to simply breathe and be as you cultivate mindful awareness. Mindful Awareness is a skill which helps us to feel present in our daily lives. It teaches us to be at peace with the present moment and to live fully in the circumstances we have been given. A breath focused mindfulness meditation teach...

This 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding exercise is a great option to step out of your mind and into your surroundings. Checking in with each of your senses gives your mind something else to focus on. This interrupts your automatic thoughts and changes the channel in your brain. To be clear, this is not a practice of avoidance, but is instead one of tuning in and refocusing your attention so your mind and body c...

When we crave an improvement in coping, what we really need is to learn to manage thoughts and emotions better. In this 11 minute guided meditation to improve coping, you will practice noticing and accepting the presence of your thoughts and emotions without automatically making meaning of them or attaching any weight to them. Our thoughts and emotions often drive our lives; taking us out of the p...

This calming anxiety relief meditation is designed to help you build mindful awareness of your thoughts, where your attention lies and how to come back to the present moment. Observing our own thinking patterns empowers us to interact with our mind in a whole new way. Not only that, but when we strengthen this mindful skill of present moment awareness, we are gifting ourselves the ability to becom...

This simple meditation for Anxiety & Stress will leave you feeling calm, present and ready to tackle whatever your day has in store. When the mind and body are in an anxious state, this is the time to turn towards ourselves in order to cultivate peace. This meditation practice will help you do just that as it focuses on using soothing physical touch and grounding strategies to bring your nervo...

This 7 minute practice is designed to assist caregivers with giving back to themselves. As caregivers, it is common to continually give and give without ever spending the time to pour back into our own cups. This quick practice helps caregivers to set aside this time to be still and to give themselves the care and attention they deserve. Double down on your wellness with all-natural supplements ma...

This 8 minute meditation to cultivate presence is designed to help you find our center and to experience the beauty and safety of the present moment. If anxiety, stress, depression or any external circumstances have been taking over your thoughts lately, this practice will help you to culitvate presence and to get back in touch with the here and now. Remember, too, that this is a practice. Cultiva...

Belly Breathing is a tried and true technique proven to calm the mind and body. This 8 minute guided meditation focuses on deepening the breath through practicing belly breathing. As you practice belly breathing, you will begin to experience fuller, deeper, more fulfilling breaths while creating safety and security in your body. Double down on your wellness with all-natural supplements made by XTe...

Let this meditation practice be a reminder that It's okay to slow down. So often we are rushing from one thing to the next, barely taking a moment to ensure we are getting full breaths. All of this rushing leads to increase cortisol levels, racing thoughts and feeling more anxious than we'd like to. Give yourself the gift of slowing down, listening to your breath and being reminded of your...