Our very own Life Coach Jenny Helms on the Brett and Sierra show last week! Jenny shares a few of her tips for eating healthier in the new year.
View more about weight loss and body image, and Jenny’s complete profile on our website at https://www.rlcwichita.com/jenny-helms-weight-loss-and-body-image-coach/… Read more
Real Life Counseling is seeking an office assistant to do insurance billing and other clerical tasks. The position is part-time and very flexible. Please contact us at (316) 425-7774 or send resume to info@rlcwichita.com if interested.… Read more
Too often, we sell ourselves short because we do not have a vision for what we want our lives to become. We settle for what we have for various reasons, not the least of which is our self-doubt. We may also doubt God or the universe is good enough to give us a good life. If you fail to set a vision, you will probably not attain it. Can you imagine a better life? Or, are you stuck because you don’t believe it is possible to have it?
Vision can be seen as the overall picture of what you want … Read more
When we are working through our anxiety, we often hear in our minds the decidedly unhelpful mantra “don’t worry about it.” We believe we should not have a care in the world and any anxiety at all is bad. Most of us probably know, however, anxiety does have some function. It helps us focus on things that need attention. When you are in danger, anxiety is there to help you avoid the danger. On a lower level, anxiety helps focus our attention on things we need to take care of and things that need to change.
If you have ever … Read more
As we come to the end of this year and get ready to start the next, it is normal for us to be thinking of things we need to try to do differently. Many of us have made resolutions or set goals for ourselves in the past year and, as the year ends, we look back to see if we have made any progress. We also look forward to determine what things we would like to change next year. As we try to help ourselves and others have better lives, one of the most important things we can do is … Read more
Weight Management and Body Image coach Jenny Helms will start an Emotional Eating Group at the Real Life Counseling offices October 20th. It will be an ongoing group meeting on Tuesday nights at 6:30, and you can join any time. We would love to have you, and look forward to supporting you in your journey toward having a healthier relationship with food and your body.
Who may benefit from attending?
– Anyone who has struggled to lose weight only to gain it all back;
– Anyone who feels their eating is out of control or that food thoughts take up … Read more
See the video below for an invitation to our Transformative Yoga course from instructors Christince Vumai and Shannon Hoffer of Ganesh Yoga Studio. Transformative Yoga starts in two short weeks (Feb. 21), and now through February 15th, you can receive $20 off the total cost of the class. Learn more and register here.… Read more
It is less than three weeks until the start of Transformative Yoga at Real Life Counseling. Right now, you can sign up for all 10 classes for just $180 ($20 off regular price)!
You probably know people who have participated in yoga and benefited, but did you know that yoga can benefit you mentally and emotionally, as well as being great for your body? Transformative Yoga instructor, Shannon Hoffer, says she could not get into yoga when she first tried it, but then, she says, it changed her life. “In college, I suffered from frequent stomachaches, not realizing it was … Read more
We are pleased to announce that, along with our friends from Ganesh Yoga Studio, we will host a Transformative Yoga class series at the Real Life Counseling offices February 21st through April 25th (Saturdays from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm). We are very excited for this series because we know that combining work on caring for you body with mental and emotional healing is a huge step forward for so many! The class is open to female participants who are interested in utilizing yoga as a way of helping themselves learn to calm body and mind, gain awareness of thought, … Read more
We would like to cordially invite you to our Open House coming up this Friday, November 14 from 3 pm to 6 pm at the Real Life Counseling Offices. The theme is “The Way We Grow” and there will be some interactive activities available to encourage growth in all of us.
Refreshments and drinks will be provided. We would love it if you would come!… Read more
Our Open House is coming Friday, November 14th and the theme for the evening is “The Way We Grow”. As you tour our building, the different therapy rooms will be set up and focused around different things we encounter that help us grow. The things that help us grow are not always things we see as positive. For example, we grow through pain. We also grow sometimes through getting angry. Kids grow and learn through their misbehavior. We spend our time trying to rid our lives of these things and yet, they are the very stuff which can promote our … Read more
There will be a theme at our Open House coming in a couple of weeks (Friday, Nov. 14th). The theme is “The Way We Grow”. When you step inside the building, there will be some simple interactive things in which you can be involved, focused on phenomena which cause growth to occur in human beings. Think “plants” and processes which take place around us in nature.
It’ll be fun. See you there!… Read more
We would like to cordially invite you to our Open House coming up November 14 from 3 pm to 6 pm at the Real Life Counseling Offices. We would love for you to come and see our new space, learn a little about what we do, and have an all-around good time!
Refreshments and drinks will be provided. It would be our great honor if you would come!… Read more
Brandon just returned not too long ago from being trained to do hypnosis and one of the main tenets of the training is that you cannot lead others where you have not been yourself. That is applicable to our work helping others in general. For that reason, we work hard as individuals and as an organization to be stretching ourselves consistently: growing as people and in our relationships with one another. If we as an organization cannot have healthy relationships with each other, how can we help others in their relationships? And, if we as people are not learning, growing … Read more
Half the battle when you are approaching challenging circumstances in your life is having someone alongside you who is supportive, non-judgmental, and who will help you find solutions without trying to fix the problem for you. So many times in our lives, we have people who are “trying to help” blame us or someone else for the problems and although we ourselves and/or others may have had a hand in causing our present circumstances, it does not help to have someone blame, shame or condemn. We need someone who will come alongside, acknowledge that we all have things to work … Read more
We have really been taken by the work of Brené Brown, who wrote Daring Greatly, and has one of the most popular TED talks in existence. She has a raw, truthful and hopeful approach to presenting her research about shame and the “way through,” which is to become vulnerable – the most courageous thing any of us can do.
This is groundbreaking stuff, since our world is so full of fear, defensiveness and shame. We have found her approach quite helpful in what we do with couples, individuals, and families. One of the primary places we experience shame … Read more
Brené Brown, talking about seeking comfort in her book, The Gifts of Imperfection:
I wasn’t raised with the skills and emotional practice needed to ‘lean into discomfort,’ so over time I basically became a take-the-edge-off-aholic. But they don’t have meetings for that….For me, it wasn’t just the dance halls, cold beer, and Marlboro Lights of my youth that got out of hand – it was banana bread, chips and queso, e-mail, work, staying busy, incessant worrying, planning, perfectionism, and anything else that could dull those agonizing and anxiety-fueled feelings of vulnerability.
We wanted to introduce you to our friend, Delia Lujano. Delia loves working with children. She works with adults as well, but when it comes to her job as a Professional Counselor at Real Life Counseling, she prefers to work with children. Her face lights up and so does her voice when she sees the little ones she works to help.
Delia’s commitment to children shows in her clients’ love for her, as well. The children who come to Real Life Counseling and see Delia for Play Therapy know that they have her attention and that she really wants … Read more
Check out this article on what happy people do. Seligman’s work is great.
Check out the following link from ABC News posted today. It’s an article about the link between gut bacteria, GI disorders and anxiety disorders.
