Tapestries Counseling Center

Finding Peace in a Frantic World (FPFW) Mindfulness & Stress Reduction The Finding Peace in a Frantic World (FPFW) group is an 8-week program designed to teach stress reduction through developing mindfulness skills, practicing the skills at home between group sessions, and completing a weekly reading to support learning. FPFW weekly sessions are only an hour and daily home practice training with audios is suggested at 8 – 24 minutes/day. Weekly Course Themes Week 1: Waking up

Group Therapy for Preventing Depression Building a New Relationship with Moods Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Experiences of recurrent depression and anxiety can leave one feeling exhausted, uncertain about how to move forward or get unstuck, and like life has lost its color. There are evidence-based approaches that are effective and empowering to help you break free from patterns that contribute to repeated and prolonged episodes of depression and anxiety. This

MBRP (Bowen, Chawla and Marlatt, 2010) is a treatment approach originally developed at the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at the University of Washington, for individuals in recovery from addictive behaviors. MBRP practices are intended to foster increased awareness of triggers, destructive habitual patterns, and “automatic” reactions that seem to control many of our lives. Mindfulness practices in MBRP are designed to help us pause, observe present experience, and bring

Grief has a mind of its own. Every person experiences grief in their own way and on their own timetable.

How self-compassion changed the way I set goals—and myself.

Resilience is another word for toughness; it’s the ability to withstand and recover from even the most difficult life challenges. We all adapted to the environment in which we were raised, and most of us had to be resilient. Our planet is resilient; kids are resilient - not weak, and they are remarkably courageous. Resilience is one of the most commonly discussed topics in the helping profession, because true healing means finding our ability to experience joy and happiness