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Who Are You Becoming in 2025? Let’s Check In!

Mar 19, 2025Addiction, Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Social Media, Therapy Tipsaccomplish, accomplished, accomplishments, become, becoming, Benjamin Franklin, cluff counseling, counseling, counselor, development, future, goal setting, goals, growth, happiness, happy, joy, love, manifest, melissa cluff, personal development, ponder, ponder the path of thy feet, progress, reality, relationships, self, self-care, success, therapist, therapy, vision

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt In 1992, Matthew McConaughey, a wise man from Texas, wrote down ten things he wanted from himself that he did not have at the time. He lost this list but later found it. When he read […]

Mantra Your Way Into 2025

Jan 25, 2025Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Social Media, Therapy Tips2025, ability, actions, becoming, better, bettering, changing, choice, counseling, counselor, development, direction, goal setting, goals, growth, happiness, mantra, mantras, melissa cluff, New Year, New Years Resolutions, power, resolutions, simplify, therapist, therapy, vision, VMAS, words

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “Mantras are seen by the eyes of the soul rather than heard by the ears.” –Pandit Rajmani Tigunait HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season! Welcome 2025! It is a new year, full of promise, opportunity, blank slates, and potential. Because I know all too well how easy it […]

Boosting Your Emotional Intelligence Will Boost Your Life

Nov 5, 2024Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Therapy Tips, Traumabecoming, cluff counseling, communication, confidence, content, counseling, counselor, coworkers, doing, EI, emotion, emotional, Emotional intelligence, emotional quotient, EQ, family, friends, growth, growth mindset, happiness, happy, intelligent, learning, melissa cluff, neighbors, open, ownership, people, productive, productivity, regulating, relationships, resilient, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-improvement, self-regulating, still, success, therapist, therapy, work

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “While being book-smart might help you pass tests, emotional intelligence prepares you for the real world by being aware of the feelings of others as well as your own feelings.” ~Hannah Owens Do you know anyone who seems wise beyond their years? Who is calm and collected–even when talking about politics or […]

When Mother’s Day is Hard, There is Hope

May 4, 2024Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Social Media, Therapy Tips, Traumachildren, cluff counseling, counseling, counselor, daughter, death, family, father, friends, grief, grieving, happiness, holiday, husband, infant, Infertility, joy, life, loss, love, mama, melissa cluff, MIL, mom, mother, mother-in-law, Mother’s Day, mothers, potential, progress, relationships, strained relationship, therapist, therapy, trial, wife, year

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” ~ Cheryl Lacey Donovan The other day, I got an email from a major corporation saying that Mother’s Day is upon us and they recognize it may be triggering for some so they included an option to mute their […]

Jokes Aside: The Power of Laughter

Mar 29, 2024Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Carecoping, counseling, counselor, happiness, happy, laugh, laughing, Laughter, life, melissa cluff, mental health, productivity, relationships, smile, smiling, stress management, stress relief, therapist, therapy

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.” – Kevin Hart Do you know how powerful smiling and laughing is? While it takes 47 muscles to frown, it only […]

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