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Category Archives: Individual Counseling

Self-Care vs. Therapy: How to Know When You Need More Support

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Articles, Individual Counseling, Mental Health

Introduction Every year on July 24, International Self-Care Day reminds us to slow down and take care of ourselves. Whether it’s getting enough sleep, exercising, spending time with loved ones, journaling, or taking a break from social media, self-care plays an important role in maintaining our mental and emotional well-being. But what happens when you’ve …

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Building Emotional Resilience: Practical Coping Skills for Difficult Times

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Articles, Counseling, Individual Counseling, Mental Health, Relationships

Introduction The research has been clear on this for decades; It isn’t a personality trait, rather  it is a process, a set of behaviors, thoughts, and relational patterns that can be built at any age, in any life circumstance, including the one you are in right now. Most people who feel they lack resilience are …

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How Healthy Boundaries Prevent the Kind of Exhaustion That Rest Cannot Fix

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Articles, Counseling, Individual Counseling, Mental Health, Relationships

Introduction There is a version of exhaustion that sleep does not fix. You lie down tired and wake up tired. You go through the motions of a day and finish it feeling more depleted than when it started. You used to care about things you now feel nothing toward at all. That isn’t being busy, …

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The Mid-Year Mental Health Check-In You Did Not Know You Needed

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Articles, Counseling, Individual Counseling, Mental Health, Therapy

Introduction Most people only stop to evaluate their mental health when something forces them to. When the anxiety becomes too loud to ignore. When the exhaustion stops feeling like tiredness and starts feeling like something else entirely. What almost no one does is pause somewhere in the middle of an ordinary year and simply ask: …

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The One Thing Healthy Relationships Have That Love Alone Cannot Provide

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Articles, Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling

Introduction There is a version of love most people recognize immediately. Showing up. Trying hard. Being there. And yet even in relationships where all of those things are present, people can feel profoundly alone. Not because love is absent. Because emotional safety is. Someone can love you completely and still not know how to sit …

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