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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
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...
Get Out from Under Mom Stress: Understand There is Always Tomorrow
Moms take on a lot once the first child enters our world, regardless of how the child enters our life. With all of the expectations we thrust upon ourselves, along with listening to...
Empower Change by Turning a Mess Into a Message
“Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.” ~ Iyanla VanzantAfter trying and dark times, we are often faced with difficult choices. Sometimes our...
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
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
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...
Improving Family Relationships While Still Keeping Your Boundaries Firmly in Place
You’ve taken time to heal, and learn more about yourself and your relationships. Time has been devoted to understanding how to handle a variety of personalities and situations so...
Long-term Relationships End: How to Handle the Reactions After Announcing the Breakup
It’s an unfortunate part of life, but sometimes a long-term relationship ends. Many couples go through a long process to end things. After the end of a relationship, the next step is...
Does Your Teenager Feel Comfortable Talking to You?
Parents don’t receive a how-to guide when we have a baby. The hospital sends us home with a tiny human (or a couple at a time), maybe some extra diapers, and that’s it. It’s up to...
Stop Internalizing and Absorbing Other People’s Problems
Every last one of us is guilty of absorbing another person’s problems, and internalizing their pain. Most of the time we don’t even realize we’re doing it, let alone how often we do...
Guide to Managing Stress During the Holiday Season
What is it about the holidays that brings our stress levels to their breaking points? As festive and happy as the holidays are supposed to be, what causes our stress levels to...
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...
Tips to Overcoming Social Anxiety in the Moment
A couple of years ago, as people everywhere were in lockdowns and complaining they couldn’t enjoy time with friends, family, and co-workers, there were just as many breathing a...
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...
Signs Your Teen is Struggling with Mental Health
Regardless of how old you are, you can remember what life was like as a teenager. However, over the years, many of us tend to “forget” to mention our struggles when having deep...
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
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
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...
Empathic Listening without Internalizing Emotions
We all want to be good friends. You happily lend a hand when your friend needs help moving…for the fifth time in two years…and take pizza as payment. You show up with paint rollers...
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...
Empowering Your Teen to Find Healthy Habits to Deal With Stress
As adults and parents, we often want to believe kids don’t have it as hard as we had it “back in the day”. We’re all guilty of this thought popping into our heads when a child utters...
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
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
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...
Strategies for Drawing Personal Boundaries (When You Can’t Take On Someone Else’s “Stuff”)
Certain people have a habit of oversharing, overstepping, and becoming the center of attention in every situation. Oftentimes, friendships and relationships begin between people in...
How to Get Out of Your Own Way! (It’s time to Spring Clean Your Mind)
It’s all the rage to declutter your home. We’re all out there finding what sparks joy ala Marie Kondo so we can reset our lives by banishing physical clutter. She’s incorporating...
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...
Arm Your Teen with Knowledge on How To Deal with Their Mental Health
Back when you were a teenager and something upset you, you may have tried to discuss it with your parents. Their response may have sounded a little something like this: “everyone...
Do You Need to Forgive Someone if they Apologize?
When someone does something absolutely terrible to you, it’s okay to be upset and pissed off. Though you don’t want the feeling of anger to consume you, it’s totally okay to be mad....
Why Do Women Need to Understand & EmbraceTheir Self-Worth
Ladies, let’s talk about self-worth. There are far too many of us walking around doubting ourselves in each area of our lives. We have moms questioning their worth if their kids...
How to Fall in Love with Yourself on Valentine’s Day
We aren’t born with an unhealthy perception of ourselves. We love ourselves and we never doubt how amazing and awesome we are until OTHER people tell us to doubt ourselves, and not...
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
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...
Why Are We Still Talking About Female Empowerment?
Ever notice we live in a world where men don’t need workshops, quotes, or seminars for “male empowerment”? It’s just a given that they have power. No questions asked. No need to...
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 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
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
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
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
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
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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