by Vicki Smith | Jun 10, 2020 | blog
Right now I would venture to say that every person on this planet has felt some level of anxiety in the recent weeks. If you haven’t…I want to know your secrets! Since I am in the counseling field, I often use the term “anxiety” to describe a client’s experience of...
by Vicki Smith | Apr 16, 2020 | blog
I talk a lot with clients about their inner critics because its one of the first inner voices we hear. One client told me, “If my critic isn’t on me all the time, my world will come down like a ton of bricks.” They went on to share that they have to consider every...
by Vicki Smith | Mar 27, 2020 | blog
David Gray is a phenomenal artist. The song The Other Side is full and rich and deep and apropos for these times. This song and a meditation group gathering this week awakened some questions in me. I wanted to share them and whats come so far in the form of “answers”....
by Vicki Smith | Mar 16, 2020 | blog
Whew. It is tough out there right now and I know its temporary, but this is like the weirdest position we have ever been in, at least in my lifetime. A pandemic. Well, we all saw the movies warning us it was a possibility but that was Hollywood right? Apparently not....
by Vicki Smith | Feb 28, 2020 | blog
Trust is a feeling, a choice and a skill. Trusting ourselves and others is a courageous act. Trust as a feeling The feeling of trust is personal. Generally, if someone or some place is “safe” then we feel relaxed and we can let our guard down. The experience of...
by Vicki Smith | Feb 9, 2020 | blog
In Internal Family Systems there is a concept called Self Energy. It’s a quality we all have and yet we lose access to it through our normal daily reactivities. Self-Energy is basically a quality that allows us to feel like we know ourselves, our patterns, our...
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