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A Peaceful Self: Guided Meditation Practice
By Alissa Klugh, MS, LPC, CMHIMP
As a therapist, I oftentimes will encourage my clients to learn and use meditation. Like many of my clients, you may have no idea what that truly means. So many people mistaken it for "just breathings" or "having extreme focus" - I know this because they tell me, "I can't sit still that long" and "I don't know how to have nothing on my mind." It's a common mistake. One that even I made, years ago, before I became a therapist.
When Panic Goes Global: Being Cool in the Face of Pandemonium
by Alissa Klugh, MS, LPC, CMHIMP
Everything is cool and calm until we are faced with uncertainty. Just a few weeks ago, we were safely and soundly going about our lives in our regular day-to-day routines. We openly went to restaurants, grabbed a coffee with a friend, and took our kids to school. We went to work. Would you have ever guessed that within such a short amount of time, we would be asked to stop our regularly-scheduled lives?
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The Head and Heart Conflict: Can You Relate?
by Alissa Klugh
In working with hundreds (and now maybe thousands) of people, one of the biggest issues I work on is heartache and heartbreak. It doesn't matter the age, it doesn't matter the gender, it doesn't matter the sexuality - Even when someone comes into my office wanting to work on something else, we inevitably circle back to past relationships that were impactful.