Mindful Montana Wellness
By Deborah Horton
Mindful Montana WellnessMar 27, 2023
Trauma In The Body
Unprocessed trauma often presents itself in the body as physical symptoms.
Grateful Choices
How do you think your life could change if you were grateful 86,400 seconds of one day?
Magic Fix
Many people want a magic fix to their mental health issues and find it very difficult to accept that a magic fix is not possible.
Never Too Late
If you are alive and breathing it is never too late to make changes in your life.
Positive Focus
Positive focus is a powerful force for changing what you think and believe about yourself.
Focus Your Reality
The things that you focus your thoughts on become your reality. Where are you focusing today?
Stressed Out
Many people are feeling stressed out by economic and political turmoil these days. In these areas we can only control ourselves and our responses.
Beyond Fear
Starting therapy can be a scary thing but if you get beyond fear you might find a happier, better, less toxic life on the other side.
Process Equals Progress
There is no magic pill for curing trauma. The only road through is processing.
Trauma Healing
Some quotes and perspective on trauma healing.
Necessary Awareness
To make any change we must first be aware that something needs to change and then we must have awareness to be able to make change happen.
Learning Resilience
Resilience can be learned after processing trauma and negative beliefs.
Start Saying No
The inability to say no is a prison. Start saying no and find freedom.
Falling Away
Therapy is like a tree in fall shedding its leaves preparing for new growth.
The Addiction Train
Addiction can be just like a train, addiction can be absolutely anything, and stopping that train can be a long and difficult process.
Looks Can Be Deceiving
Just because someone looks like they have the perfect life the truth can be vastly different.
The Last Straw
The COVID pandemic and following months with other increasing fears has led to an increase in suicide in both children and adults.
Red Flag Warning
Red flag warnings are almost always seen from the beginning but the trauma responses we have make us move right past them.
Stop Saying Sorry
Stop being an over-apologizer and taking responsibility for other people feelings.
Laugh Out Loud
Laughter truly is the best medicine and it is also sometimes the best therapy.
Happiness Now
Stop waiting for life to become less difficult or perfect to do what makes you happy. Choose happiness now.
The Blame Game
We can spend our lives blaming others for our trauma or we can do our own work on processing our trauma and change ourselves.
Failure Is Not Final
As long as we do not choose to stop trying or we die, failure is not final.
Intentional Space
Create intentional space in your daily schedule for yourself to help create margin and reduce anxiety.
Trauma Cannot Be Fixed
Trauma cannot be fixed it can only be lived with better.
It Is Not All In Your Head
Mental health issues are not just in your brain but in the body too.
Change Your Relationship Patterns
Understanding why we are the way we are in relationships can help us stop repeating the same bad relationships over and over.
Free To Decide
You can make any decision you want based on what you think, feel and need.
Excuse Me, Your Tranquility Is Slipping
Counselors are human too.
The Road Not Traveled
Sometimes the things we think we need to be happy and successful are not the things we get and that is okay.
Two Words To Change Anything You Think
There are only two words you need to know in order to change anything you think and those two words can change your life.
The Cost Of Trauma
Trauma can cost a mental, emotional, and physical debt if left unprocessed.
Taking Breaks
Taking breaks, complete breaks from your everyday life is a valuable component of healthy mental health.
Winter Blahs
Winter can bring on many things such as hibernation behaviors, lack of motivation and even depression.
Intentional Grace
We constantly give grace to other people in forgiveness, kindness, tolerance but we do not often give grace to ourselves.
Who Are You
Who are you really beyond the beliefs you have been conditioned to believe.
A Different Truth
The only way to happiness and peace is to tell yourself a different truth about the things you believe about yourself.
Let There Be Light
The sun is a very powerful dopamine projector and soaking up some of it can keep depression minimized.
The Hardest Word In Therapy
There are many hard words in therapy but the hardest for many is the word Acceptance and it is necessary for change.
Happiness Starts With You
No situation or person will ever make you happy if you are not happy with yourself first.
No Answers
Many times we can believe that some of life's hardest questions have no answers. In reality, there is always an answer but it may not be one we are willing to accept.
Moving Towards Margin
Margin is the space that allows us to address our own mental, spiritual and physical health and it can be used up by doing for others instead of ourselves.
Fear Of Change
Fear of change can keep you stuck and prevent you from making healthy, positive changes to your life.
Lack Of Margin
A lack of margin results in there being no pause between emotion and response leading to explosions of feelings, words and actions. Learn how to build in a pause even if your margin is short.
Let Go
Learn to let go of the emotions and experiences that weigh you down with negative thoughts just like clouds floating by in the sky.
Try Love
Despite all we think we know about what is going on in the world thanks to 24/7 Internet coverage, our neighbor could be on the brink of ending their life and we cannot take the time to know this. Why not try love instead and reach out to those around you.
Constancy Of Change
Every single thing in the universe is changing every single moment in time and change comes to us all whether we want it to or not. Change is unavoidable and absolutely necessary for growth.
Creating A Universe Of Gratitude
A daily practice of gratitude and thankfulness brings an abundance of joy and focuses your brain on what is good in your life instead of being trapped by negative thoughts.
Your Life Matters
Self-care is not selfish it is sustainability. Taking care of yourself allows you to have sustainable energy, emotions and spirit for other people and other things.
Sharpen The Saw
The seventh habit in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Sharpen The Saw is about renewal and care of yourself so that your vessel may be filled to pour into all the other areas of your life.