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Perfectly Imperfect: Overcoming Perfectionism One Day at a Time

Feb 23, 2024Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Self-Care, Therapy Tipsboundaries, comparison, counseling, counselor, disappointment, discouraged, disillusion, focus, gratitude, happiness, joy, melissa cluff, Perfection, perfectionism, perfectionist, progress, progression, relationships, sad, sadness, self-awareness, self-care, self-love, self-work, Social Media, sorrow, thankful, therapist, therapy, unhappiness

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough.” — Julia Cameron Several years ago, my friend made a quilt for her brother for Christmas. Because she is a novice […]

Are You Aware of Your Mental Health?

May 19, 2022Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Therapy Tipsapps, balanced diet, counseling, counselor, exercise, food, get outside, happiness, journal, journaling, love, May, meditating, meditation, melissa cluff, mental health, Mental Health Awareness, Mental Health Awareness Month, mother nature, phone addiction, phones, procrastination, productive, productivity, quality sleep, self-care, self-love, sleep, smart phone, Social Media, sunlight, therapist, therapy, unplug, zen

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “The experience I have had is that once you start talking about [your mental health struggles], you realize that actually you’re part of quite a big club.” — Prince Harry I love talking about mental health and I find it quite helpful and needful to talk about mental health with my clients, […]

Breaking Up With Social Media

Nov 5, 2021Addiction, Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Social Media, Therapy Tipsaddiction, amae, attentive, aware, boundaries, Cluff Counselor, connection, conscientious, control, counseling, counselor, dopamine, Facebook, family, friends, friendship, in real life, Instagram, IRL, melissa cluff, phone-free zone, reality, self-care, self-love, smartphone, Snapchat, Social Media, social media break, social media fast, therapist, therapy

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “Social media pulls us up into our heads. We’re judging, comparing and daydreaming about what we’re seeing online, so we’re not fully living our own life. Instead, we’re caught up in a virtual world that might not be exactly the way it appears.” ~Jane Pernotto Ehrman, MEd When we open Facebook or […]

Staying Close While Quarantine Keeps You Far Apart

May 15, 2020Relationshipsamae, cluff counseling, connection, contact, CoronaVirus, counseling, counselor, COVID-19, email, FaceTime, family, friends, friendship, happiness, humans, isolation, love, melissa cluff, phone call, quarantine, relationships, social isolation, Social Media, therapist, therapy, zoom

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “Connecting with others is rewarding; it makes us feel like we’re not alone in the world.” ~ Jonah Berger My friend recently told me that when quarantine started, she found herself checking her phone more than she ever had before. She thought about it for a moment and realized that she was feeling […]

Staying Connected with Yourself During Quarantine

May 9, 2020Self-Carecluff counseling, connection, counselor, melissa cluff, quarantine, relationships, self-care, Social Media, therapy

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH For many of my readers, quarantine has meant an increase in responsibilities–helping everyone else survive. How are you helping YOURSELF, though? This edition of Quarantine Talk is dedicated to ways to show yourself love during quarantine. Quarantine has really been something, huh? If you are working from home, you have had to […]

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