The coronavirus pandemic has severely restricted social gatherings, travel plans, and in-person events for most of 2020. And that has created a confusing scenario for counselors and other mental health professionals: When almost everyone is physically isolated from some extent – and will be for the foreseeable future – how do you realize that a client may be isolated in…
“And yet after all this time the sun never said to earth: 'You owe me something. & # 39; See what happens to such a love. It lights up the sky. "~ Rumi I grew up believing that love is conditional. My grandmother, as much as I adored her, was extremely controlling, and when I did not live up to…
Clinicians often tell Taqueena Quintana, a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Washington, DC, that they find it difficult to work as a civilian counselor with the military. They want to know how she did it even though she has no personal military experience. Quintana was first introduced to the military as an advisor to a drug abuse agency. Some of…
When the outside world looked at Julie Bates-Maves' client "James", they saw a 60-year-old "junkie" who had wasted 20 years of his life shooting heroin. But in James' heroin community, he was a respected man – a person of authority to be trusted. James had established himself as a security professional during his two decades of addiction, says Bates-Maves, a…
"Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but when you notice the other things around you it will come softly and sit on your shoulder." ~ Henry David Thoreau Most of us are always on the lookout for a major breakthrough – a point in our life where beam balance leads…
I will share two real life examples of how you can obtain crucial groundbreaking discoveries that can directly help you bring about positive changes in your current life situation. But first, before we see how easily this can happen and how inspiring it is (!), A quick question for you is… Are YOU ready to enjoy some positive life changes?…
In this online course from Physiopedia you will learn to identify and effectively manage hypermobility in children. The benign joint hypermobility syndrome (BJHS) belongs to hereditary connective tissue disorders alongside the Ehler-Danlos syndrome, Marfan syndrome and osteogenesis imperfect. Unlike the other connective tissue disorders, BJHS is a condition that causes musculoskeletal symptoms in hypermobile patients with no other rheumatological features…
"I wish, when you are lonely or in the dark, I could show you the amazing light of your own being." ~ Hafiz of Shiraz When we think of illness, we don't usually equate it with loneliness. However, there seems to be a great connection between the two conditions. The fact is that we are most connected to our body…
Late in the morning of Tuesday, October 13th, the last day that Virginia residents could register to vote in the 2020 general election, the news began to filter itself. A disconnected fiber optic cable had destroyed the Commonwealth's voter registration portal. Officials said the cut was an accident caused by road works; Skeptics on Twitter "accidentally" had trends. The paper…
This Saturday my beloved Richmond Football Club has the chance to win its third AFL Grand Final in four years. After such a tumultuous year, it was a remarkable feat on their part (and their opponent Geelong) to make it to the great dance, and it is a wonderful opportunity for them to cement their place in history as one…