If relaxation feels elusive and negative thoughts dominate your mind, you’re not alone. Up to 90% of doctor visits are stress-related. Stress can turn everyday challenges into overwhelming obstacles, affecting our mental and physical well-being. From financial pressures and work deadlines to unexpected illnesses and profound grief, stress shapes our reality with unwelcome burdens.
My mission is to guide those overwhelmed by stress, trauma, anxiety, and depression towards lasting relief and peace. Through personalized counseling, you’ll embark on a healing journey, learning mindfulness practices that seamlessly integrate into your daily life and help you transform your relationship with stress.
Additionally, The A Keen Mind Podcast offers practical mindfulness techniques and guided meditations to help reduce stress and cultivate the skill of mindfulness amidst life’s stressors and challenges.
Taking control of your stress means transforming your relationship with challenges, not eliminating them. Let’s embark on this path towards tranquility together.
People who take MBSR & practice mindfulness find:
✽ Improved concentration, memory, creativity, & learning ability
✽ Reduced anxiety and improved quality of sleep
✽ Improved health conditions, such as high blood pressure and diabetes
✽ Increased ability to manage stress and relax
✽ Reduced emotional and physical pain
Jennifer “ When I started the class, I wasn’t sleeping for weeks which caused me to feel anxious. Despite being very active and generally optimistic, I shut down, stopped eating, lost weight and became depressed. I felt helpless because my daughter was struggling with depression and I didn’t know how to help her. I was taking medication and going to counseling, but nothing worked. This class gave me the tools I needed to live in the present moment. I stopped spending so much time living in the future and making up stories in my mind about my life that weren’t true. By the end of the course I was sleeping well and let go of worry and depression. I have referred many of my friends to MBSR and all of them have loved the class!”
In Charlotte meditation and mindfulness practices are growing and they span the globe with over 750 MBSR programs worldwide. MBSR will help you develop life-long tools to maximize your quality of life through enhanced awareness, even when you are facing stress, pain and illness.
8-Week Mindfulness & Stress Reduction course orientation will be held September 9th at 630pm
These sessions are intended to help you learn and grow a sustainable mindfulness practice.
Therapeutic approaches are designed to improve quality of life, self-awareness, and positive feelings
Mindfulness meditation, along with yoga, is an excellent form of mind-body medicine. When added to, or combined with, an existing medical or psychological treatment, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program can significantly benefit your health, and effectively enhance the treatment results pertaining to the following conditions:
Chronic pain, high blood pressure, heart disease, fibromyalgia, GI Distress, skin conditions, headaches as well as many other conditions. It can also be helpful for psychological distress like panic, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and sleep disturbances. Even if you are not facing a medical issue, MBSR can improve your overall well-being and enhance your health.
Neural pathways consist of neurons connecting to different areas of the brain. Through repetition and practice, these pathways are strengthened, forming habits. When the mind is conditioned to overthink and stress, these patterns become habitual. However, mindfulness meditation rewires the brain to perceive thoughts differently. It helps individual focus, relax, and reduce ruminations about the past.
Combining mindfulness, meditation, and counseling offers a holistic approach to mental health. Counseling in Charlotte, NC, supports this transformation by providing personalized strategies to manage stress and anxiety. Mindfuness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) improves overall well-being and health, even for those without medical issues. As defined by the World Health Organization, ‘Health is a state of complex physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.’ Embracing these practices can lead to a more balanced and fulfilling life.