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Acelli Crippen-Kok, LPC, Solid Ground Counseling & Wellness PLLC

Resources & Tips from Solid Ground Counseling

Take the next step in your growth journey by reading up on little steps you can take to help you through life’s road bumps. These posts can help you move through life events at any stage in your life.

Signs Your Social Battery is Drained

Signs Your Social Battery is Drained

How many memes have you seen that tell us “strong women don’t need anyone to help them, they can do it all on their own”? It has us all looking around in the midst of a struggle to...

Develop Your Ultimate Self-Confidence

Develop Your Ultimate Self-Confidence

Self-confidence. It’s something many people either lack, have too much of, or enjoy a healthy amount of based in reality and self-awareness. If you’re relatively confident and people...

How to Accomplish Your Goals this Year

How to Accomplish Your Goals this Year

January flew by, once again. Have you been struggling with the resolutions you set for yourself? Did you feel super pumped back in December when you were writing all of your...

Practical Ways to Reduce Anxiety

Practical Ways to Reduce Anxiety

Even the coolest cucumbers out there have anxiety induced moments. No one is immune to anxiety and everyone can benefit from a few practical ways to calm down anxiety. Many people...

Difference Between Coping and Healing

Difference Between Coping and Healing

When we’re in the thick of a threat, our body and mind are thrown into a tailspin. We do all we can in order to get through the challenging time so we experience minimal damage, or...

How to Be Productive in Your Work Day

How to Be Productive in Your Work Day

The Key Lies in Compartmentalization Strategies We often find ourselves working an 8-hour day and wondering “did I even accomplish anything today”? Many of us throw our heads back...

Ways to Recharge Your Social Battery

Ways to Recharge Your Social Battery

Regardless of how you refer to experiencing social exhaustion, whether you call it a drained social battery, or all out of social energy, when you’ve hit your social interaction...

Break Up with Negative Self Talk

Break Up with Negative Self Talk

I’m guilty, you’re guilty, everyone is guilty of negative self talk. For some reason our brains are wired to welcome the negative and block out the positive. It’s almost as if we...

Tips for Effective Sibling Communication

Tips for Effective Sibling Communication

Siblings. What can I say, sometimes you hit the jackpot and you grow up best friends and never experience discord. Other times, you struggle not to rip one another’s heads off. And...

Is it Time to Walk Away from Your Relationship?

Is it Time to Walk Away from Your Relationship?

The world insists love is all a couple needs to make it through the hard times, the good times, and everything in between. I’m here to burst the “love conquers all” bubble every...

Stand Up to Your Parents as a Grown Woman

Stand Up to Your Parents as a Grown Woman

Grown women unable to stand up to parents is quite possibly one of the most common reasons us ladies have unnecessary stress in our lives. We’re doing it to ourselves, and it’s...

It Takes Strength to Ask for Help

It Takes Strength to Ask for Help

How many memes have you seen that tell us “strong women don’t need anyone to help them, they can do it all on their own”? It has us all looking around in the midst of a struggle to...

Signs Your Social Battery is Drained

Signs Your Social Battery is Drained

All of us have had a collective traumatic experience these last few years. Many people spiraled into sadness being separated from loved ones and human interaction outside of our...

Signs Your Anxiety is Affecting Your Health

Signs Your Anxiety is Affecting Your Health

Anxiety. It’s something absolutely no one can outrun forever. It may hit us at the most random of times, and it can last for a short period of time or drag on like when your child...

Boosting Your Self Worth & Self Esteem

Boosting Your Self Worth & Self Esteem

This might come as a shock to you (!) but women are notoriously lacking self esteem. I know, you’re not surprised but why does this happen? We aren’t born without self esteem! As...

Learn How to Navigate the Challenges of Life

Learn How to Navigate the Challenges of Life

School taught us math skills to help come up with answers to math problems. What it didn’t do was teach us life skills to handle the challenges of life. If you were lucky, you...

Tips for Coping with Ending a Friendship

Tips for Coping with Ending a Friendship

We all understand breaking up with a romantic partner, but sometimes we break-up with platonic friends, too. Friendships end, it’s a fact of life. Even the closest friendships end,...

Setting Healthy Boundaries with Family Members

Setting Healthy Boundaries with Family Members

Setting healthy boundaries with family members doesn’t necessarily mean your family members are toxic. Oftentimes, boundaries are roadmaps for navigating through a relationship so...

Learn to Say No to Improve Your Life

Learn to Say No to Improve Your Life

When we were younger, everywhere we turned we were being taught to say no, right? “Just say no to drugs”, say no to getting into cars with strangers, and say no to sex until...

Healing After a Breakup

Healing After a Breakup

Not all relationships end with bitterness and resentment. We often find ourselves parting ways even though the relationship was a good one but, at some point, the “romantic love”...

3 Tips to Boost Your Confidence

3 Tips to Boost Your Confidence

Let’s be honest with ourselves right now. Gaining confidence isn’t always as easy as it sounds. It’s crazy hard to go from down-in-the-dumps to top-of-the-moon in an instant. Even...

Perfectly Imperfect

Perfectly Imperfect

How did Solid Ground Counseling even get started? Looking back, I didn't really know if or when this endeavor would ever see the light of day. I'd always assumed starting something...

5 Quick Tips for Self-Care

5 Quick Tips for Self-Care

January flew by, once again. Have you been struggling with the resolutions you set for yourself? Did you feel super pumped back in December when you were writing all of your...

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