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Grandville Counseling Joins GR Therapy Group
Therapists from Grandville Counseling and GR Therapy Group are pleased to announce they have merged efforts to offer even more top-quality therapeutic services to the residents of Grandville and the greater Grand Rapids area. Both organizations have been committed to...
Laughter Is the Best Medicine
Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed a familiar theme coming up in sessions with some of my clients and in my personal life. The theme has been around the healing power of laughter.
Feeling Your Fullness
No matter what you ate, how you ate, or why you ate, there was a moment when you stopped eating. The art of feeling your fullness starts with discovering an awareness of hunger and satiety.
Should I Come Out to My Parents?
There is no perfect way for a person to come out to intolerant parents. This conversation certainly can be one of the most difficult moments in a person’s life. But it is common to feel relief afterward. Even when it doesn’t go so well at first.
Challenging the Food Police
She is re-capturing a moment with someone experiencing that distinct tinge of guilt, failure, and embarrassment over a food choice. If you’ve ever struggled with food, you know this feeling. I love what she playfully captures here—the absurdity of what she calls the food police.
Making Peace with Food
What if instead of building up our armor to “be good” around “bad foods” we put down our armor and begin working toward something more like a peace treaty with food?
Honoring Your Hunger
We identify and rate hunger and fullness, and we develop holistic plans for nourishment. These elements usher us on the path to freedom that comes with the work of honoring our hunger, and our bodies.
Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children
Learn the difference between supporting and enabling your adult children. Address how our own issues can interfere with the process of “letting go” out of fear. You can “let go” of their problems, love them as they are, and get on with your own life, and allow your adult child to get on with their own!
Rejecting the Diet Mentality
This series is dedicated to helping you get familiar with the 10 core principles of restoring your relationship with food through Intuitive Eating which provides a thoughtful, compassionate, and research-based path for returning to nurturing our bodies with food.
Get Intimacy Back in Your Relationship: The Romantic Resolution
It is common for couples to come into counseling admitting that they have let the intimate side of their relationship wane. The truth is that when couples lose intimacy it is almost never intentional. It isn’t always disappointments and hurt that get in the way....