Orlando Therapist: Friendships During a Pandemic

We’ve all been dealing with the pandemic for the past two years and today, we’re dealing with the changes that have come with a global pandemic and learning how to best adapt.

Some people have gone through drastic changes where they’ve lost their jobs, moved to a different state, or grieved a loved one. While others learned a new hobby, started working from home, or discovered how enjoyable it is to spend more time outdoors.

Orlando Self-Care Spotlight: Living Well Acupuncture

Self-care is fundamental to the wellness of your mind, body, and spirit. We kicked off the month by sharing a blog on the importance of self-care and some ideas to kick start your self-care journey! In our most recent blog post, we highlighted The Body Lab Pilates and interviewed Dede Ramos, Owner and Master Instructor.

We are continuing this series on Orlando Self-Care Spotlight, where we highlight local businesses that have been nominated by other Orlando therapist and professionals as awesome self-care spots. We have carefully selected locally owned Orlando businesses that nurture mind, body, and spirit to be featured in our series Orlando Self-Care Spotlight.

Orlando Self-Care Spot: The Body Lab Pilates

We are kicking off this blog series on Self-Care Spots in Orlando by interviewing Dede Ramos, owner, and master instructor at The Body Lab Pilates.

We are grateful for these business owners because they have dedicated their lives to nurturing the mind, body, and spirit of humans. Because of their work, they are helping the people in our Orlando community live healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives.

Orlando Therapist Shares Importance of Self-Care

You’ve been feeling drained and overextended. You’re running out of gas emotionally and physically. You know things need to change, but you just can’t seem to prioritize your needs.

You say, ‘tomorrow’ or ‘after I pick up the kids,’ but the time just never seems to come. You’re inundated with endless tasks and a mile-long to-do list.

Are you feeling like you need a little reboot to your self-care routine like things have gotten out of balance and some of the old ways of being have crept back in? As an Orlando therapist that specializes in trauma and anxiety, one of the first things clients and I do in a session is to create a solid self-care plan. Without the ability to take care of ourselves, we just don’t have what it takes to manage all of our responsibilities.

We understand that if this is your first time journaling it can be overwhelming and a little stressful so we went ahead and gathered 100 journaling prompts for you to get you started. We also separated them into various categories so depending on what you’re in the mood to journal about you can pick from - self-reflection, employment, daily life, stress, and anxiety.

Being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease can be enlightening and frustrating at the same time. The doctor gives a prescription, maybe some referrals, and you’re on the way out the door. That’s it right? Well, I wish it were that easy. It wasn’t that long ago that I was also in that very same place.

“Why can’t I just stop reacting like this?” you think to yourself, while metaphorically banging your head against the wall. Not only do you have the reaction to deal with, you now have to deal with the guilt and shame that comes out of another failed attempt to act differently.

Orlando Counselor Providing insight on Gratitude by Going Beyond the Boring Ole Gratitude List

My point is, it is easy to be grateful for the positive things in life. This year, this November, I am asking you to dig a little deeper into your well of gratitude and go beyond the obvious. Search the times in your life that felt like hell. Where you felt doomed and stuck there until the bitter end. Times in your life that sucked with a capital S. And now ask yourself, “Am I still there?” “Did I make it out alive?” “What did I do to survive?”

Orlando Anxiety Therapist providing steps for forgiveness.

Having a forgiving perspective allows you to let go of the past, it paves the way to be more forgiving toward others, and breathes new life into old broken self-perspectives that just keep you stuck.

If you’ve extrapolated all the life lessons out of your checkered past and you’re continuing to beat yourself up for choices, it’s time to take steps toward self-forgiveness.

Orlando Therapist Offering her Perspective on Weekly Sessions…

“Can we meet every other week rather than every week?” the prospective client says to me during the initial phone consultation. “I find that weekly sessions work best for the type of work we will do.” I hear myself say back.

As a trauma and anxiety therapist in Orlando, my hope is to help you feel settled in your skin again, sleep better at night, and feel more clarity and peace in your life. Our work together is focused and intentional with your specific goals driving our therapy sessions.

Orlando Therapist Providing insight on Gratitude by Going Beyond the Boring Ole Gratitude List

In this rendition of Gratitude with Some Attitude, I focus on having gratitude from altitude. Ok, maybe I am having way too much fun with the play on words with this series, but seriously y’all, there is something to be said about looking back on your life from the perspective of the bird’s eye view (altitude).

Orlando Therapist Providing insight on Gratitude by Going Beyond the Boring Ole Gratitude List

Welcome to November, the ubiquitous month of gratitude. This is the time of year that we take a moment and give thanks for all the good fortune in our lives big and small. We’d all fare better to extend this attitude of gratitude throughout the year, but November is the month we seem to put it on blast (on social media, at least).

Orlando Anxiety Therapist: Tools for Anxiety

As some of you may know, I am a true advocate for regular mindfulness and meditation practices. It is so important in helping you maintain a relaxed, stress and anxiety free life. Is that not how we all want to start and end our days? In a state of relaxation? Mindfulness and meditation practices help us calm our thoughts and change our ways of thinking BUT it takes practice and consistency - it doesn’t just happen overnight.