Melissa Symonds LPC

https://www.mightyoakscounseling.com/post/how-to-talk-to-your-children-about-racism-and-protesting

How to Talk to your Children About Racism and Protesting This is a long read, but I appreciate your acknowledgement of how important this issue is in our communities across the United States. At Mighty Oaks, we believe we cannot serve one community, without advocating for all communities. While we advocate for all BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of C...

“Understanding the stages of grief is a start. But whenever I talk about the stages of grief, I have to remind people that the stages aren’t linear and may not happen in this order. It’s not a map but it provides some scaffolding for this unknown world. There’s denial, which we say a lot of early on: This virus won’t affect us. There’s anger: You’re making me stay home and taking away my activities. There’s bargaining: Okay, if I social distance for two weeks everything will be better, right? There’s sadness: I don’t know when this will end. And finally there’s Acceptance. This is happening; I have to figure out how to proceed.”

That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief The coronavirus pandemic has led to a collective loss of normalcy.

Be brave enough 6 Reasons Why Failure is Actually Good for You It can be difficult to get back up when it feels like life is constantly knocking us down. Blow after blow, we keep trying to trudge through our failed experiences to try and reach the moment of success. Each time we fail at a new venture, a new relatio...