Posts by People House
Seasons Within || By Bre Smith, Affordable Counseling Intern
This article is for all menstruating bodies—and bodies that don’t menstruate too! Quick refresher: not all women menstruate and not all who menstruate are women. No matter your gender/gender expression, there are significant and serious risks with having a menstrual cycle. The menstrual cycle can have intense energetic, emotional, cognitive, spiritual, and physical impacts. The…
Read MoreTrue Responsibility is the Ability to Respond || By By Phannie Krentzman
We all have long lists of what to do to be most responsible. There are things we’ve inherited from our parents and grandparents that were dictated by their life experiences and conditions. The societies we live within tell us the most acceptable ways to parent, live, spend, save, travel, communicate, be in relationship, etc. Responsibility is…
Read MoreWhy You’re Not Broken: Reframing Symptoms as Protective Parts || By Laura Hogzett MA, LPCC, EMDR, NCC, Rev
Understanding Anxiety, Depression, and Addiction through Internal Family Systems I talk about Internal Family Systems (IFS) a lot because it works. It is more than a therapy model; it is a compassionate lens for understanding your inner world. Once you start to see your emotions, behaviors, and thoughts as different parts of you, each trying…
Read MoreThe Sacred Practice of Slowing Down: What Motherhood & Art Taught Me About Spirit || By Leanne Morton, MA, LPC, ATR
I still remember the shock of becoming a first-time mom in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, how lonely it felt to cross the threshold into motherhood without a community to hold me. It was overwhelming, defeating and disorienting. Like so many new mothers, I turned to my phone, the internet, and social media, hoping…
Read MoreKarma and Consequences || By Beth Hinnen, Certified Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher
The spiritual path is not for the hesitant. Besides the search for teachings that resonate with you, which can be quite tedious, there’s the actual practice itself. Sure, it’s helpful to have beliefs to turn to, some reassurance to give a sense of order and structure to the world. However, where the rubber meets the…
Read MoreThe Fire that Spreads: On Hope in Chaotic Times || By Kevin Culver, LPCC
I want to begin this blog by sharing a quote I came across this week from a news conference in Utah: “I’m not optimistic, but I am hopeful. And hope is the virtue that sits between the vices of optimism and pessimism. Hope is the idea that good things are going to happen because we…
Read MoreAnte Up || By Laura Zwisler, LPC
I suspect life is run like a casino game. Casino games require that you place a bet or “ante up” before you get a chance to play. Playing is not winning. Playing is an opportunity to win. It’s also an opportunity to lose. Should you lose, you paid to lose. Should you win, you paid for the chance to win. Want…
Read MoreLet’s Chat Gender || By Bre Smith, Affordable Counseling Intern
I love to talk about gender! There is so much nuance, play, fun, and violence, oppression, harm surrounding gender. This topic is dynamic, complex, important, fluid, and sacred. What is gender? Gender is only one piece of the identity pie. This short essay is too brief to cover the many layers of identity such as…
Read MoreFrom Mind-Body to Bodymind || By Phannie Krentzman
A crucial aspect of our well being is disregarded and overlooked. Obsessed with cognition, we seem to miss what’s right underneath us – our bodies. Funnily enough, we’ve separated the brain and its function, from the body. We’ve forgotten that the brain IS body and that the body is continuous. Now it’s a curious thing…
Read MoreHealing Through Ecstatic Dance: Can Movement, Community, and Sound Heal You Back to Life? || By Laura Hogzett MA, LPC, EMDR
Not long ago, I found myself deep in what many would call another dark night of the soul. They say when we’re ready, the challenge arrives, because we’re strong enough to face it. But this time, I wasn’t so sure. I felt exhausted from the last storm, already worn thin. I had begun to isolate,…
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