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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 […]

Time Alone: Hibernation or Isolation

Oct 22, 2021Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Therapy Tips, Trauma“alone time”, “me time”, amae, cluff counseling, connection, counseling, counselor, hibernation, isolation, love, melissa cluff, relationships, self-awareness, self-care, self-love, solidarity, therapist, therapy, time

DESIGNED BY FREEPIK “Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.” ~ Joseph Roux There have been times where I have been so excited for a girls night or to get together with friends, family, neighbors, or coworkers. I look forward to catching up with the people I care about, getting to know new friends, and having an enjoyable […]

Powering Down to Recharge

Oct 8, 2021Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Self-Care, Therapy Tipsboundaries, cluff counseling, computer, counseling, counselor, disconnect, drive, hotel, limits, melissa cluff, phone, power down, powering down, read, recharge, rejuvenate, relax, relaxation, rest, self, self-care, self-love, sleep, staycation, therapist, therapy, therapy tips, time, time management, Unisom, unplug, vacation

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have.” ~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar You feel restless. Your eating habits have changed. You are awake at all hours of the night. You have lost all motivation. You have no energy or desire to socialize. […]

When You Need a Healthy Escape

Sep 24, 2021Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Social Media, Therapy Tipsalcohol, anesthesia, balanced diet, book, break, cluff counseling, counseling, counselor, drive, escapism, healthy escape, meditation, melissa cluff, music, pornography, reading, self-care, self-love, sex, therapist, therapy, vacation, yoga

DESIGNED BY PEXELS “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” — Abraham Lincoln General anesthesia is a combination of medications used to put an individual in a sleep-like state before a surgery or medical procedure to produce a pain-free state. Likewise, you and I have probably allowed ourselves to self-medicate with […]

Remembering and Moving Forward: 20+ Years in the Making

Sep 10, 2021Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Trauma20 years, 2001, 9/11, America, American, blog, BYU, cluff counseling, counseling, counselor, external safety, freedom, honoring, inner protection, internal safety, liberty, Lydia Judd, melissa cluff, patriotism, protection, recovery, remembering, safety, therapist, therapy, trauma

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH Guest blogger, Lydia Judd likens our nation’s experience after 9/11 of increasing our external safety and how we need to look inward and increase our internal safety as well. I don’t remember much from when I was four years old. I’ve seen pictures of my Barbie birthday cake covered in candles while […]

Time Alone: Hibernation or Isolation

Powering Down to Recharge

Remembering and Moving Forward: 20+ Years in the Making

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