Understanding Teens and Self-Harm Author: Alexa Ashworth - MFTC Teens and Self-Harm When helping teenagers recover from self-harm it is important to understand why they do it. Not every teenager is the same and there is no simple answer. However, through supporting and listening to the root causes of why teens start to [...]
Deepening Connection With Your Partner Author: Alexa Ashworth - MFTC A theme that continues to stay with me throughout the past couple of months as I tend to my own relationship with my partner and continue to work with others is, “creating intentional sacred spaces”. We live our lives busied with and surrounded [...]
Making Friends With Your Body Author: Alexa Ashworth - MFTC Do you ever think of your body as your friend? What would it take for you to think about creating a friendship with your own body? Think about a time you were truly in tune with your body and able to notice its [...]
The Power of Rituals Author: Alexa Ashworth - MFTC Morning Ritual I awake for my day and the first thing I read is a message I have set on my phone that states, “I am worthy of good things”. I inhale strengths and exhale any unsettling thoughts that would cause me to become [...]
Spirituality in Everyday Life Author: Alexa Ashworth - MFTC Spirituality is a sacred connection within our mind, body, and soul. When we honor all our cells and organs working for us daily, we are capable of reducing physical pains attached to stress. Spirituality is one way you can speak your body’s language and [...]
How Can I Learn to Forgive? Author: Alexa Ashworth - MFTC Forgiveness is a very powerful gift to ourselves and a gift to another when we are honest and intentional in this journey. In order to forgive another person, however, I believe the journey of forgiveness starts with ourselves. Before we can genuinely [...]
How to Engage Fully in Your Life Author: Alexa Ashworth - MFTC Every person is engaged in their lives through many different pathways in life. We actively engage ourselves through the arts, extracurricular activities, volunteer work, the workforce, travel, inner strengths, families, and interpersonal relationships. There is no right or wrong way to [...]
How Your Brain Sabotages Relationships Author: Stephanie Camins - MA, LPC, Alexa Ashworth - MFTC Assumptions and Bias Where do you put most of your mental energy throughout the day? Is it playing out scenarios in your head that have not yet happened or re-playing conversations you wish went better than they had [...]
Three Ways for Parents to Put Their Marriage First Author: Alexa Ashworth - MFT, Intern Throughout quarantine and the continued limitations of summer kids’ camps, school activities, sports, daycares, and planned vacations parents are struggling to carve out time to be with one another. Making the decision to have children already changes the dynamics [...]
Managing Your Families Emotions Author: Alexa Ashworth - MFT, Intern Right now, the only question that seems to be in the back of everyone’s mind is “what’s next?”. As we are receiving new updates and information around COVID19 daily, it is challenging to quiet the mind and soul. Alongside processing worldly information, we [...]
