THRIVE
COUNSELING
Embracing Change Through Life's Transitions
Welcome to Thrive Counseling, where you are able to say things that can't be said to anyone else, words that are sometimes scary to say out loud.
Things we think but can't be said out loud
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Life is too much, I don't know how much more I can handle.
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There are too many decisions to be made.
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What if I make the wrong one?
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Why do I have to make all the choices?
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I wish there was someone to listen, without an agenda or judgement.
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When will there be someone than I can be honest with?
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Who can I trust?
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How do I make a decision?
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How do I trust?
Some Topics for Discussion
Change is Inevitable, Embracing Change is a Choice
Trauma Support
So many people think that trauma can only be a single major event that changes who we could have been. I believe that this is only one definition of trauma. Trauma is much more complex than that. It could be something that as a single event is not traumatizing however, if repeated continuously can become a trauma, this can include but not be limited to name calling, being ignored, physical, sexual, psychological, emotional and or financial violence or abuse.
Arriving at a place and time when you are
Parenting Transitions
This isn't just about parenting rebellious teenagers, this starts at the time you find out you are pregnant as a family. Your life, focus, objectives change; making a decision to have a baby, adopt, or terminate all come with emotions and consequences. When you first hold your baby, that will grow to be a toddler, then a child and then before you are able to blink he/she is a pre-teen, teen and finally an adult. Add in all the emotions they will be experiencing when are you making time for your own feelings and taking the time to process them?
We, as parents, must transition our parenting to reflect our child's age, physical, emotional & psychological needs; if we continue to parent as if they are children when they require the freedom and acceptance as teenagers, they are more likely to rebel, disassociate or become incapable of becoming an independent adult with a healthy emotional relationship with you.
As parents, you need a space to talk about your fears, insecurities and find the affirmation and direction when you are already doing the best you can even if you don't have the results you may want.
Grief Processing
We so disparately want grief to be a linear process that we are able to know that after denial will come anger will come sadness will come acceptance and then healing and we are able to move forward in peace. Leaving all the 'bad' feelings behind, here's the truth...that's not the process grief is not linear, it's pure chaos moving from denial to acceptance to anger to healing and then the next moment starting all over again. The cause of your grief isn't limited to the loss of a loved one through death, it can be loss for any reason, injury, conflict, relocation etc.
Grief can also be experienced when we have to let go of dreams, homes or jobs, etc.
The definition of grief is a deep or intense sorrow or distress. Anything that causes this emotion can be accepted as grief.
Relationship Transitions
12 Step Support
Using the 12 steps of recovery is a way of living for many people, intricating these steps into your life is how I can support you. I, personally, have been a member of the 12 step community for over 10 years and use a variety of 12 step resources to support my own emotional recovery so that I can be equipped to support anyone wanting to use these steps as a way of living.
Life Transitions
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