The mindfulcounseling's Podcast

Your curiosity and exploration of self love. How can you love yourself today? We are so quick to take care of others, to love others and to do things for others. Most of the time with the expectation that the same is done to us. We have a tendency to be the biggest critics of Our Own Mind. We quickly can dismiss our wants and needs because of our daily responsibilities or not having time. Here, I...

What can you do to be happy today? What is that one thing that you know can bring a smile on your face? Regardless of struggles, difficult days and busy days we can all find something to be happy about. Happiness is a conscious choice and through that it only multiplies. It can be something that you do for a minute or an hour. Be creative, mindful and conscious.

Let's start the New Year with optimism and success. Regardless of adjustments, losses and numerous changes, You Can Still Continue On with motivation and determination to be better. Listen to your inner voice, the one that can guide you and push you forward. Don't just depend on outside voice, find a friend in your inner voice, the one that is more capable in achieving. The voice that can encourag...

When it comes to difficult individuals, it is important to acknowledge your own Mental Health. To ask yourself a question, "will this difficult person impact my life positively or negatively" It is important to form a healthy boundary, to develop a plan and to follow a schedule. What is important at the end, is your own health and how you want others to impact it.

This episode focuses on the ability to find your strengths and positives in your daily life. Regardless of troubles and difficulties that might be going in your life, it is important for your own health, mental and physical to sit back and to acknowledge what it is that pushes you forward.

What do we do in situations where we find ourselves feeling completely helpless? When we have nothing left in us. This is where we need to step away, talk to someone and express our thoughts. Being helpless does not necessarily mean lost, it just means that you have ran out of all your options.

What would you consider your safe place? A place where you can feel good, calm and relaxed. A place when you can separate from your daily responsibilities and feel good for a few minutes. This is a place that is only known to you and your inner self. Is it the office, bed, the road or the attic?

To have temporary anxiety and depression is normal, however having too much can cause lack of control and motivation. It can be overwhelming and debilitating and talking to someone about it can help.

To have a baby in time of covid-19 can be stressful. The continuous unknown and worries as well as anxieties as to what you should do is normal. Many new parents question how many people should see my baby and comfort of touching. What is important is to speak to a professional and go with your instincts. If you don't feel secure having people around, voice it out. Those that care will respect.

The ability to do work remotely while at the same time managing the remote school work of our kids. It's not easy to do both, however with right approach we can do this. Study pods are being discussed where two or three other parents get together with their kids to do their school work. Motivation and Interaction is important in order to continue to succeed and develop.

Grief in time of covid is difficult and especially when it comes to adjusting to things that have never been. To grieve someone you have lost and to deal with inability to see them before they passed is difficult. Our traditions have changed and our feelings have remained, but it is all normal and with time it will change again. Loss was and is difficult, treasure the good and apply it to your pre...

Children just like us have many questions and feelings about difficult and stressful events. They need reassurance but also a positive role model to educate them, listen to them and empathize with them. They too suffer from anxiety and depression when things are unsettled. They are curious, want to learn. Don't dismiss them but be with them. Here you will find some helpful way of taking to your ch...

This episode focuses on appreciation of the outside and people. Take it in small doses and appreciate each step that you take. aWe have taken many things for granted because we were always in a rush not even knowing where we were going. We need love, appreciation, intimacy and beauty. Let's not forget that by stepping out.

This episode focuses on positive psychology and how important it is to notice the good things that happened to you and around you. The importance of positivity can allow us to be happy, successful and deal with difficulties in a more calming way. Find something to be happy about today, sit with it and allow it to be with you for the rest of the day.

This is an episode that focuses on the importance of facial expression and how we hide it with our masks. We do not have to speak in order to receive a feedback that someone gives us based on our facial expression. Our feelings and emotions are present when we see how others use their facial expression. Babies and infants respond to our voices and mainly our facial expressions so they can mimic an...

Although we are moving forward with our responsibilities and hopes of somewhat normalized life, some of us have to go back to clean our offices, classrooms, departments that still have St. Patrick's decorations and March calendars on walls. Even thought we are in May and approaching summer months, March effects are still here. It is ok to acknowledge that some of those past weeks have become overs...

This episode focuses on the upcoming celebrations, events and travels that may have been postponed or cancelled due to the current events of Coronavirus. The planning the excitement and the joy of looking forward to things has been put on hold and adjusted in some ways and hopefully have rescheduled to continue the enjoyment of planning. The temporary pause to our celebrations and relaxation has t...

This episode focuses on forming a new habit. To allow yourself to do something new, to commit, to move forward and not be stuck. To form a new habit means taking care of yourself and to manifest a better version of who you already are. Goal are great to have, too accomplish them can be difficult for some. Allow yourself to form a new habit by saying "I am, and not I should"

This episode focuses on feelings of loneliness, while staying home during coronavirus. We already know how difficult it may be living under the same roof top with our families, however sometimes it can be even more difficult to live alone. This episode focuses on some coping mechanisms that you can utilize when you find yourself feeling lonely and alone. The benefits of covid-19 is that we can uti...

This episode focuses more on finding smiles and laughs during this time. Be silly with yourself, find enjoyment in your daily routines and give yourself and your family a new learned habit. To smile can be a medicine for a Better Health and better ways of managing a crisis.

Your ability to endure, heal, evolve and love is greater than your suffering. Covid-19 may be the suffering but your ability to survive is more powerful than Covid-19. You have the power to tune into your inner strength of positivity, work, motivation and vision to not allow Covid-19 to take over who you are.

Tune In- 10 minutes of tuning into your five senses. This is a mindful short approach towards checking into your own senses and your own feelings and the way you can address them while maintaining you job, different schedules and in some ways the balance to the current situation. Tune In allows us to check in with ourselves for a minute so we can relax and acknowledge. It is a great way to apply i...

3 weeks ago life may have looked a bit different and where we are today is norm while still changing. We are isolated and distance is our new life. Our fears are in front of us always worrying and managing and that might last a while. We are becoming more creative and with that comes hope and positivity.

This episode focuses on the continuation of current issues and on vulnerability. How can we utilize this time of isolation or being quarantined and do something productive. To allow our vulnerability to make us stronger, to make us better and new. Acknowledge your frustrations, your worry and sadness. Express it and allow others to express as well. Listen and be yourself with a balance. 

This episode as just another day to your somewhat regular day. Most of us are working from home alone or with our kids, and partners being interrupted or not. Take time for yourself, this is your time to be the best you can be. You can appreciate all of this, regardless of your stressors and distractions. Breath in the moment and allow yourself to be vulnerable.