by Tyler Higgins | Feb 27, 2023 | Self-Care, Self-Talk
Self-esteem is, in short, how the mind evaluates itself. There is no metric that can objectively determine a person’s self-esteem — the concept is inherently subjective. So how can we think about it? Well, as with many things in counseling and psychology, there...
by PACMH Team | Feb 22, 2021 | Self-Care
Body Connection The word embodiment grabs attention as of lately. It’s certainly a buzzword but it points to something that every person is connected to: the idea that we all have a body that we live in and experience everything through and with. But how many of us...
by PACMH Team | Feb 22, 2021 | Perfectionism
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. – Anna Quindlen, Being Perfect Perfectionism has been steadily increasing over the past 30 years and has become an epidemic that has...
by PACMH Team | Jan 4, 2021 | Self-Talk
I have a confession. I used to view self-talk as self-deception. When I was a teenager, I learned positive self-talk from a teacher. I resisted it because she taught me to feed myself sugar-coated messages to feel better. I didn’t appreciate the power of effective...