Whole Mentality Blog

Let’s get some things straight off the bat. Content is my thing - grammar is not. At some point, my best friend will send me a long text about all the places that need commas or colons, and you’ll come back to a revised grammatically correct version of all my posts. For now, you get my authentic, grammatically flawed self.

Emotions Assessment
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Emotions Assessment

One of my favorite things to do with clients is what I like to call an “Emotions Assessment”. Essentially, we want to learn - where & how you wee exposed to, and learned about, your emotions. This can support us in identifying any maladaptive patterns of thought that may be keeping you from a much more enriching relationship with your emotions.

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A Brief Black History of Mental Health Care
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A Brief Black History of Mental Health Care

…Also for clarification, it took 2020 for people and organizations to start issuing apologies for racial traumas, and atrocities that began literal centuries ago. This may bring up the notion of “performative justice” when in reality, actualized justice is what is so desperately needed.

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Emotion Alert System
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Emotion Alert System

Let’s talk about these mislabeled “bad” emotions. Instead of labeling them as negative or unhelpful, what if we took a second to identify the issue to which they may be alerting us. Anxiety is often an indicator that we have mismanaged something in our world.

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