What Do You Want? Make The Leap Toward it Today!

Are you who you want to be? 

What is keeping you from jumping with a leap of faith and courage to change your life for the better?

Sometimes, it is more comfortable to stay and live in fear and with what is familiar for us.  

Change can be frightening.

Trying can be frightening. 

But here is nothing worse than not even trying to work on positive changes in your life.

What do you want? Who do you want to be? Are you living life as your authentic self?

If not, why not?

Be true to yourself.

Be proud of being YOU.

Take the jump toward what needs to happen so that you can live more abundantly today!

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 By Diane Davidson 
                               Gammon M.S.
         Clinical Mental Health Counselor 

Diane Davidson Gammon MS is clinically supervised by Michael Loftis LCSW as she pursues  LPC-MHSP licensure.

 Open Full-Time Days - Monday through Saturday
With Evening Appointments
615-556-8406
Email- Diane@LivingWithHopeCounseling.com

Sliding Scale Fee for Individual Counseling Sessions 

Free Support Groups for: Depression, Anxiety, Panic, Hopelessness, Trauma, PTSD, Abuse, and Grief and Loss (Including Miscarriage/ Stillbirth/ Infant loss)

 Have Hope! Renew Health! and...........

Accept What You Do Not Have Control Over

When we accept what we do not have control over while doing the best that we can, we free ourselves.

Try letting go and accepting situations in which you do not have the power to change.

It is wasted energy to worry and focus on what is out of your control.

Do the best that you can with where you are with what you have......................... then let go of what is not in your control.

Set yourself free.

Then, have faith that things will work out.

Things may not work out the way that you planned or the way that you would like, but maybe they will turn out to be even better.

We cannot see the bigger picture but God can.

We don't need to always understand, but we can still have faith.

Free yourself today. 

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 By Diane Davidson 
                               Gammon M.S.
         Clinical Mental Health Counselor 

Diane Davidson Gammon MS is clinically supervised by Michael Loftis LCSW as she pursues  LPC-MHSP licensure.

 Open Full-Time Days - Monday through Saturday
With Evening Appointments
615-556-8406
Email- Diane@LivingWithHopeCounseling.com

Sliding Scale Fee for Individual Counseling Sessions 

Free Support Groups for: Depression, Anxiety, Panic, Hopelessness, Trauma, PTSD, Abuse, and Grief and Loss (Including Miscarriage/ Stillbirth/ Infant loss)

 Have Hope! Renew Health! and...........

 

Choose Hope Not Fear

We all have choices. 

Choosing to have hope over fear is even a choice. 

What we focus on- grows bigger.

Try focusing on having hope and thinking of what can go right instead of thinking of fear.

What we choose to think about influences our feelings and then our actions.

Choose Hope.

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 By Diane Davidson 
                               Gammon M.S.
         Clinical Mental Health Counselor 

Diane Davidson Gammon MS is clinically supervised by Michael Loftis LCSW as she pursues  LPC-MHSP licensure.

 Open Full-Time Days - Monday through Saturday
With Evening Appointments
615-556-8406
Email- Diane@LivingWithHopeCounseling.com

Sliding Scale Fee for Individual Counseling Sessions 

Free Support Groups for: Depression, Anxiety, Panic, Hopelessness, Trauma, PTSD, Abuse, and Grief and Loss (Including Miscarriage/ Stillbirth/ Infant loss)

 Have Hope! Renew Health! and...........

 

Hold on to Hope

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 By Diane Davidson 
                               Gammon M.S.
         Clinical Mental Health Counselor 

Diane Davidson Gammon MS is clinically supervised by Michael Loftis LCSW as she pursues  LPC-MHSP licensure.

 Open Full-Time Days - Monday through Saturday
With Evening Appointments
615-556-8406
Email- Diane@LivingWithHopeCounseling.com

Sliding Scale Fee for Individual Counseling Sessions 

Free Support Groups for: Depression, Anxiety, Panic, Hopelessness, Trauma, PTSD, Abuse, and Grief and Loss (Including Miscarriage/ Stillbirth/ Infant loss)

 Have Hope! Renew Health! and...........

 

What is a Complete Protein? - Are You Getting This Daily?

First of all.....What Is Protein?

One of the three macronutrients that your body needs to function properly (along with fats and carbohydrates) is proteins. They are primarily important for tissue growth and repair, but also necessary for digestion, metabolism, and the production of antibodies to fight infection. 

When you digest protein, it is broken down into its component amino acids, which are then reassembled into 50,000 different forms your body can use for things like hormones, enzymes, and neurotransmitters. 

Not only do these amino acids form the building blocks of your brain’s neural network and have significant impact on your mood and brain function, but they are especially important in infants’ developing brains.

The difference between Complete vs Incomplete Protein Sources:
Your body needs 22 different types of amino acids to function properly. 

Adults can synthesize 13 of those within the body (known as non-essential amino acids), however, the other 9 must be obtained from food (known as essential amino acids). It is these essential amino acids that derive the classification of protein as either complete or incomplete.

Complete Protein Sources:

Complete proteins are those that contain all essential amino acids in a sufficient quantity. These are typically animal-based proteins, but a few plant sources are also considered complete. A few examples are (* indicates plant-based):

Meat

Fish

Dairy products (milk, yogurt, whey)

Eggs

Quinoa*

Buckwheat*

Hemp and chia seed*

Spirulina*

Incomplete Protein Sources:

Incomplete proteins are those that don’t contain all 9 essential amino acids, or don’t have sufficient quantities of them to meet the body’s needs, and must be supplemented with other proteins. These include:

Nuts & seeds

Legumes

Grains

Vegetables

Just because they are incomplete doesn’t make them inferior, though, they just need to be combined to provide the right balance of essential aminos. 

 

Proteins that, in combination, make a complete amino acid profile are known as complementary proteins. Here are a few tasty examples:

Rice and beans

Spinach salad with almonds

Hummus and whole-grain pitas

Whole-grain noodles with peanut sauce

Complementary proteins do not necessarily need to be eaten together, but since your body doesn’t store amino acids for later use in protein combining, they should be eaten throughout a day’s meals. 

^{Reference:  https://www.builtlean.com/2012/10/03/complete-vs-incomplete-protein-sources/ By Nate Morrow}


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 By Diane Davidson 
                               Gammon M.S.
         Clinical Mental Health Counselor 

Diane Davidson Gammon MS is clinically supervised by Michael Loftis LCSW as she pursues  LPC-MHSP licensure.

 Open Full-Time Days - Monday through Saturday
With Evening Appointments
615-556-8406
Email- Diane@LivingWithHopeCounseling.com

Sliding Scale Fee for Individual Counseling Sessions 

Free Support Groups for: Depression, Anxiety, Panic, Hopelessness, Trauma, PTSD, Abuse, and Grief and Loss (Including Miscarriage/ Stillbirth/ Infant loss)

 Have Hope! Renew Health! and...........

 

Support Group Tonight For Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, and Grief

Support Group for Depression, Anxiety, Grief, and Trauma for adults of all ages 
(male and female) tonight at 7pm.

Registration is required for each meeting. 

Email Diane:
Diane@LivingWithHopeCounseling.com or call or text 615-556-8406 to register or for more information 
   Diane Davidson Gammon MS is clinically supervised by Michael Loftis LCSW as she pursues  LPC-MHSP licensure.
 
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 By Diane Davidson 
                               Gammon M.S.
         Clinical Mental Health Counselor

 Open Full-Time Days - Monday through Saturday
With Evening Appointments
615-556-8406
Email- Diane@LivingWithHopeCounseling.com

Sliding Scale Fee for Individual Counseling Sessions 

Free Support Groups for: Depression, Anxiety, Panic, Hopelessness, Trauma, PTSD, Abuse, and Grief and Loss (Including Miscarriage/ Stillbirth/ Infant loss)

 Have Hope! Renew Health! and...........

The Next Depression/ Anxiety Support Group is Monday, August 21st

The Next Depression/ Anxiety Support Group is Monday, August 21st.

Registration is required for each meeting. 

Email Diane:
Diane@LivingWithHopeCounseling.com or call or text 615-556-8406 to register or for more information 
   Diane Davidson Gammon MS is clinically supervised by Michael Loftis LCSW as she pursues  LPC-MHSP licensure.
 
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 By Diane Davidson 
                               Gammon M.S.
         Clinical Mental Health Counselor

 Open Full-Time Days - Monday through Saturday
With Evening Appointments
615-556-8406
Email- Diane@LivingWithHopeCounseling.com

Sliding Scale Fee for Individual Counseling Sessions 

Free Support Groups for: Depression, Anxiety, Panic, Hopelessness, Trauma, PTSD, Abuse, and Grief and Loss (Including Miscarriage/ Stillbirth/ Infant loss)

 Have Hope! Renew Health! and...........