Are you suffering from political fatigue? I know I am. Today's advice will focus on helping you learn to shut off worries, fears, negative and stressful thoughts. We will begin to share a secret from our workshop on being Mindful that will help you shift out of your head and into the moment. Please check out our full free workshop at the Gathering. GatheringofGoodPeople.com. Please don't forget to like, subscribe and share! Join the Gathering @ https://gatheringofgoodpeople.com Follow my official social media pages: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GatheringofG... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gatheringof... Twitter: https://twitter.com/GatheringGood Podcast: https://gatheringofgoodpeople.podbean... #GatheringOfGoodPeople #Mindset #Positivity

Advice for More Self-Care Ideas If you're feeling tired, stressed, or overwhelmed, maybe it's TIME for some self-care.  In today's episode you will learn you can't really do self-care without making time for self-care.  Intentions alone will not get the job done.  Host: Brett R. Williams Find a Self-Care Group- GatheringOfGoodPeople.com

Teacher Self-Care #3 You know you need to do some self-care daily, but somehow that thought then makes self-care a chore and not a choice.  Teachers right now are stressed, and needs more self-care to recharge.  But, how do you do good self-care without it being one more thing on your to-do-list.  Let's talk about how to do that.  Also consider joining our free online teacher self-care support group, as maybe a way to give some attention to yourself.   Teacher Self-Care Group sign up page, Gatheringofgoodpeople.com.  

Advice for Suicide Awareness Month Have you lost someone from suicide? Have you struggled with suicidal feelings yourself? Or maybe you are worried about someone you care about potentially taking their life.  Well, It’s September, which is suicide awareness month and so today I want to talk with you about this very important and painful issue of suicide.   I myself felt like I needed a little help, so ask a new friend of mine, Aaron Burgin from the nonprofit Suicide Sucks to join us. Aaron lost his brother to suicide, and he is going to share his story to help those in struggling with suicide or with some they know who is suicidal.  Hi, and welcome back to ANXIOUS, our podcast put on the Gathering. I am Brett R Williams host of the gathering of good people. We are a nonprofit dedicated to your personal growth and emotional healing by providing self care groups to anyone and everyone who needs support.   SuicideSucks.com Suicide Prevention Lifeline 800-273-8255 GatheringOfGoodPeople.com

Advice Around Self-Care for Teachers #2  If you are a school teacher then “overwhelmed” is the word that best describes your life. A new study (April 2020) conducted by Yale showed school teachers are anxious, OVERWHELMED, and stressed. Overwhelmed by life and feeling overwhelmed at work. All the added stressors of teaching online are bringing on teacher burnout. That’s why it’s so important to share some advice about self-care that can help destress you teaching professionals. Sign up for our Teacher Self-Care group.       

Advice- DON’T Make Self-Care Another Item On Your To-Do-List.  My goal in this post is to provide some practical advice around teacher self-care that will help destress the distress and overwhelm school teachers are feeling.  Specifically, what I want to do in this post is help you understand; what is self-care.

Advice For A Difficult Psychological Problem (2020). Have you ever been obsessive? You know, had an intrusive thought that just looped and looped? Or maybe you found yourself doing something you didn’t want to do, but couldn’t stop yourself. That’s being compulsive. As someone who's struggled with both obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors, (aka OCD) today I am going to be sharing advice on how to interrupt these intrusive thoughts.  Join the Gathering to learn more and to be a part of a personal growth group. Host Brett R. Williams Licensed Psychotherapist.   

Advice That Will Cut Your Fears In Half.  As a psychotherapist and someone with anxiety, I want to consider a new way of seeing you overwhelming fears and nervousness. Your worries and angst is not who you are! I want you to see yourself as health and whole, not broken or diseased.  Join the Gathering to learn more and be a part of a personal growth group. Your host Brett R. Williams is Licensed Psychotherapist     

This relationship building exercise comes from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and will help you replace conflict with connection.

Advice for Feelings of Worry & Worthlessness Your feelings don't need to be fixed, they need to be fed. Your emotions are drivers pushing you to feed your emotional needs. Move away from the disease model of mental illness and learn about growth psychology and mental health. Join the Gathering to learn more. Host Brett R. Williams Licensed Psychotherapist   

Adding an Emotional Support Piece To you and I, suicide is a problem. But to someone who's suicidal, suicide is a solution. Suicide stops the pain people feel, and until we can provide another way to help people in pain, suicide will be an option. The Gathering is providing support to anyone and everyone who is seeking personal growth or emotional healing. Join the Gathering to learn more and to be a part of a personal growth group. Host Brett R. Williams Licensed Psychotherapist. 

Understand You Are NOT the Problem You emotional pain is made worse by your lack of understanding. First, you're blaming yourself, which is only adding to your pain. And second, by focusing on you as the problem you don't address the real issue, which is, you have unmet needs. We can help you meet your needs through our Personal Growth Groups.  Join the Gathering to learn more and to be a part of a personal growth group. Host Brett R. Williams Licensed Psychotherapist.  

Secret to Change is Found in Community Growth groups have always been the way we have learned and grown.  Churches, school, families, and peer groups have been how all of us have created change. But not in psychology, there we do it in private. Learn how personal growth groups are what we need to create good mental health. Find emotional healing from your worries and feelings of worthlessness. Join the Gathering to learn more and to be a part of a personal growth group. Host Brett R. Williams Licensed Psychotherapist. 

To help with the podcast, about Love Driving Out Anxiety, I have created a meditation to help you practice.  

Today's consideration is about letting LOVE be your driver, and in the processes letting love drive out your anxiety.

Your emotional mind, what you are trying to control, understand pictures more than words. Learn a new cognitive therapy that uses your imagination to change your feelings, not all that self talk. Join our Free Online Growth Groups gatheringofgoodpeople.com/community

Learn to focus your mind and calm your emotions by learning diaphragmatic breathing.  This is a special episode of anxious that teaches a relaxation skill.  

If you have any kind of empathy, you maybe feeling a lot more anxiety right now because you are picking up the feeling of others as well as your own.  Learn how to clear out other people's feeling so you don't become anxious.  For more help join a Growth Group gatheringofgoodpeople.com/community 

How is anxiety affecting your relationship? Is it causing your two to pull together or to pull apart. Learn how to stay together by mastering what you meditate on.  

Practice meditating on your second human need; being enough, and having enough. Learn to use square breathing along with the consideration, "What if today I'm Enough". To learn more check out,  www.gatheringofgoodpeople.com     Create the growth you want and join a Growth Group.  www.gatheringofgoodpeople.com