Change Your Eating Habits- For Better Mental And Physical Health

Society influences us to eat fast food and processed foods.

 These foods are causing most illnesses. 

Eating unhealthy affects your mental health and your physical health. 

They are intertwined. 

Most people that I talk to do not eat any raw vegetables. 

Raw vegetables should be most of your diet along with other real food. 

Real food is food that is not genetically modified and/or processed. 

Examples of real food is raw vegetables, fresh fruit, organic eggs, organic meats, and organic seeds and nuts.

Try and make one small change at a time toward making better food choices- for your health! 

                       By Diane Gammon MS

Clinical Mental Health Counselor

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It Is Not Good To Hold Your Emotions Inside Of You- Find Out Why

When you hold in your emotions and do not talk about them, it can cause a multitude of problems for your body, mind, and health. 

You need to be like a tree and let the dead leaves of your life fall off of you. To do so- you need to get out your emotions and talk about them------ work through them and get to the root of your pain.

1. It can first of all cause physical illness.

  Like stress, keeping in pint up emotions can cause physical illness of many kinds such as high blood pressure, heart disease, and more.

2. Holding in your emotions can also cause mental fatigue. 

Until you talk about and work through emotional disturbances, your brain is carrying them with you all day and night which makes it difficult to concentrate, to remember things, or to move forward in life in many ways.

3. It can also cause sleep disturbances when you hold in your emotions.

 Your brain is carrying around what you will not filter out and process. This can keep up awake all night for many nights and cause months of sleep disturbances. 
                            
             Journal- talk to a friend- seek counseling
             Get out pint up emotions for you health!

                            By Diane Gammon MS

Clinical Mental Health Counselor

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Rewrite Your Present No Matter Your Past

You can rewrite your life story right where you are in life-- right now!

Here are some prompts for you to start rewriting your life:

I have been through a lot in my life. Some of the lessons that I have learned in my life that I can apply to my life are..............

Something wonderful that happened in my life was............. it impacted me............... 

  Many of my life experiences have shaped me into the person that I am today. An experience that has really shaped me into the person that I am today was..............

I am ready to make some changes in my life. The first thing that I can do to make a change is.................. 
                        By Diane Gammon MS

Clinical Mental Health Counselor

Now Open Full-Time: Days, Evenings, and Saturdays.

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Your Strengths- Ways To Identify Them And How To Use Them

You have strengths. 

Everyone does.

The problem is that when you feel down emotionally or physically that often you do not feel that you have strengths. 

However- you still do. 

Grab a pen and paper and write down what you know are your strengths. 

Then write down how these strengths have helped you to get through difficult times in the past.

Then write down how you believe that your strengths can help you with a difficult time that you are facing right now.

Do not let a difficult time, negative or irrational thoughts, or others keep you from tapping into your strengths! 

  You are stronger than you know! 

Get writing!

Some ideas and examples are the following: 

I am patient.

I am understanding.

I am caring.

I do not give up when things are tough.

I am optimistic.

I am able to be true to myself and my values.

I have Christ in me.

YOUR TURN!

Add to your list often and read them out loud to yourself daily to help develop your strengths!

                       By Diane Gammon MS

Clinical Mental Health Counselor

Now Open Full-Time: Days, Evenings, and Saturdays.

Sliding Scale Fee for Individual Counseling Sessions 

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Are You Losing Who You Really Are? Look For These Signs

Are You Losing Yourself? 

Look For These Signs

   1.   You feel unhappy most of the time.

If you do not embody your true self, negative emotions will surface up. Feeling unhappy the majority of the time indicates something deep is going on within you, so pay attention to your emotions. If you don’t feel content with yourself and your life then you need to make some changes. 

It may be time to declare a new beginning for yourself!

  2. You don’t feel comfortable around most people.

 This is another way to tell that you are not being your most true self. If you do not feel comfortable or you do not want to be around other people, then this might signal that you need to reevaluate yourself.

   

 3. You don’t value yourself.

When you are your most authentic self, this means that you value your true being. If you don’t value yourself, you likely haven’t gone inside your soul to reveal the truth that lies within. 

If you do not value yourself, then others will not value you either. You will also have difficultly seeing value in others as well.

  4. You seek acceptance from others.

When you lose who you are, you often look to others for acceptance in life. 

This may include trying to get approval in ways that are inappropriate or from people that it should not matter.

   5. You second-guess your intuition.

If you are not confident in yourself, then you will not value yourself or your inner self. It will be difficult then to follow your intuition.

How do you be yourself and live according to YOUR values? You simply get help in learning how to do this. 

The first step is to begin to start living your life with being true to yourself. BE YOU!

Counseling can help you. 

Do not live your live being afraid to be yourself.   
              
Embrace YOU and who you are!

Again, it may be time to declare a new beginning for yourself!

Reference- Power Of Positivity 

                       By Diane Gammon MS

Clinical Mental Health Counselor

Now Open Full-Time: Days, Evenings, and Saturdays.

Sliding Scale Fee for Individual Counseling Sessions 

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