a more comprehensive guide to goal setting
Whether you're seeking to boost your well-being, improve an aspect of your personal life or work toward a professional achievement, creating a plan of action is the guide for that path.
What a lot of “goal setting” advice misses are the ideas of how values, past & current experiences and abilities factor into our desired outcomes.
What do Values & Goals have to do with mental health?
When it comes to mental health, the connection between your values & your goals is incredibly important. Learning how to recognize and define your values can have a positive impact your well-being.
Aligning your values to your goals not only helps the "staying power" of your effort but also helps you create more continuity throughout your entire life.
2023 Summer Reading - mental health books for your list
A list of our 10 highly-suggested Summer reads that we've recommended to clients, in groups or have used to supplement topics discussed in therapy.
Figuring out your feelings
If positive and lasting change is what we're after, we have to learn how to track destructive patterns of behavior back to the thoughts and how they came about.
If you want to change your mood and mindset, you have to learn how you think.
It's not easy and may take time, but it can be done.
How to set resolutions… and follow through!
Studies show that most "resolutioners" begin to struggle with New Year Resolutions around January 12th.
If you're having a difficult time with resolutions or goals or accomplishing tasks, it can be a sign of many things. Buuuut, and stay with me here, let's focus on the action-taking!
How to make decisions and stop second-guessing yourself
We make a TON of decisions every single day.
They can be stressful.
Especially the life-altering ones.
But they don't have to be.
The more you practice how to make decisions, the more at-ease you'll feel facing them.