Resilience Archives - Real Life Counseling

Teaching and Modeling Resilience to Our Children in Tough Times

September 2

We are going through a monumentally strange time in our lives right now. This is maybe the only thing that is utterly true at all times because everything else is shifting. A global pandemic has put it’s thumb on daily life and changed things we have taken for granted – face-to-face time with friends, family and acquaintances, work, school and now school sports. It’s all changing, stopping, or both, and it is hard. Potentially losing a year of team sports is going to be a challenge that we never planned to face.

While this is a … Read more

6 Free Sessions for those Affected by Racial Tensions

June 15

Real Life Counseling clinicians, in partnership with ROSE, Inc. (Reach Out 2 Someone Else, Inc.), are offering 6 free therapy sessions to those affected by racial tensions in our country. Many are struggling with grief over recent events, or live in fear of future violence and unrest. Others would like to understand their own reactions and/or how they can contribute to peace and reconciliation. We would invite anyone affected to take advantage of this offering regardless of race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status.

Navigating Our Collective Trauma: Part 1

May 4

By Joel Ybarra, LCMFT

It is not a stretch to say we are undergoing a collective trauma now as this pandemic exerts its will on our lives in some pervasive ways. Even if it has not had an impact on us directly, the looming nature of the virus seems to be casting a dark cloud over us, keeping us from embracing hope for the immediate future, and at the very least reminding us of the inevitability of our own illness and death. As is often true with these sorts of happenings, we experience some of the effects now and we … Read more