Teen Counseling

My name is Sheri and I offer teen counseling, therapy, and life coaching for youth who are looking to create better mental health.

I was resisting pain to be more productive and understood that feeling it is fundamental part of grieving a lost love. It means I am human and am alive. I hope I can deal better with it. I am enrolled in a mindfulness course and practice and I hope to process all of this moment in my reality.

Been through much hard times and losing sleep, anxiety, etc. This video helped calm me a lot. Helped me release some hurt emotions as well and then get back to feeling better. It was a strangely soothing feeling afterwards. I will probably return to this video a lot in my times of need and any others that can help.

I love your views on facing and feeling 'negative' emotions but I am interested to know what you think of the CBT approach where you question the validity of the thoughts that led to the emotion. If you find you have no real evidence for the thoughts the emotion will fade. This is more for people whose baseless thoughts are causing depression but perhaps the average person does this to some degree.

I can't control my negative emotions right now. My lungs get heavy and full of hot air while my heart rate goes up and I feel this dreadful feeling like I will never be able to enjoy life even if I do well in uni or intimate relationships. I have this downward spiral of self fulfilling prophecies negative emotions that make me feel terrible almost constantly. And I can't do anything about it because I am the most self conscious person who ever existed. I'm gonna try meditation and mindfulness everyday. Half an hour of each and see if I get to the point where I can function like a normal human being.

You might think you have defeated this problem but you're missing a couple of things. 1) You are still hiding from the pain 2) To experience pleasure first you must understand pain. 3) That guy in the gym is better than you because he has learned to harness his pain and use it as his why to mold himself into the person or habit that he aspires to.