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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
“For too long we have been embarrassed to admit when our children need emotional or psychiatric help, worried that the stigma associated with these problems would be detrimental to their futures…Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from
“So be good, for goodness sake!”
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Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Thirty years. Thirty years.
With his first long Christmas Eve broadcast in 1988, as an eager 15-year-old, DJ Jon Solomon has now been captaining the beloved marathon-length Holiday Radio Show 
Key: We have the power to “kill” the barriers to our enjoyable life.
Living it: Limiting energy drains, practicing realistic thoughts and releasing the emotions that chain us to memories.
Clinical Concept: Synergistic self-application of energy prioritization, Automatic 
“By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather and Autumn's best of cheer.”
- Helen Hunt Jackson,
Colonial American Poet and Native American Activist
Last month’s transition from Summer to Fall was also marked by 
- Howard Thurman, educator, theologian and author
Key: The draining emotional experiences of life 
Key: Relaxing vacations take purposeful preparation.
Living it: Make lists, buffers, boundaries and memories.
Clinical Concept: Blending Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideology in a Solution-Focused Therapy framework to reduce vacation stress and anxiety.
“Taking Earned Time Off Is Source of Anxiety 
"A truly great counselor is hard to find, difficult to part with and impossible to forget."
- Anonymous
Hello friends and happy Counselor Awareness Month! In honor of raising awareness I thought I would share a PowerPoint presentation that I'm 
“Everyone knows what stress is, but nobody really knows.”
- Hans Selye, World’s First Stress Researcher
Key: Stress is the creative energy made as our inner self dances with the outer world.
Living it: Take control of ourselves in simple ways 
“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.”
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
Flow: The Psychology 
“Mental health problems are more common than heart disease, lung disease and cancer combined.”
- National Institute of Mental Health
Key: Mental health is on a continuum like physical health, and should be accepted that way instead of an abnormal