Leslie Garcia 22/05/2020 Leslie Garcia 22/05/2020

Mental Health In Color!

If there’s no more important lesson from this pandemic it’s: the power of Community, Compassion, and Collaboration. And we’d like to encourage you to take the time to collaborate with like-minded business owners to create an Educational Resource for the community! See our blog to learn more and view the results of our collaboration with the team at See in Colors — a family-friendly animated video with helpful tips to assess and invest your Mental Health from home!

If there’s no more important lesson from this pandemic it’s: the power of COMMUNITY, COMPASSION, and COLLABORATION.

We’ve seen recording artists orchestrate Grammy-worthy concerts from their living rooms in different corners of the world. Neighbors coordinating neighborhood-wide dance parties and art/food collections. We’ve seen small businesses innovate by either taking their services online or getting creative with their delivery process.

All of this fills us with hope, and we’d like to encourage you to take the time to collaborate with like-minded business owners to create an EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE for the community!

Knowing WHERE and HOW to access helpful information about all 8 DIMENSIONS of WELLNESS (emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical, environmental, financial, occupational, and social) will be CRITICAL as we all come out of lockdown and slowly start to rebuild our lives.

We ALL have some fundamental knowledge that we can share and collaboration reaches and benefits a MUCH LARGER audience faster, more efficiently, and ALWAYS to surprising results!

Recently, Counseling Space, collaborated with the talented Lisa Nelson, visual thinker, sketchnote artist, graphic recorder and Creative Director at See in Colors, to create a family-friendly animated video with HELPFUL TIPS on how to assess and invest in your mental health from home!

We are grateful for this collaboration as it allowed us to be creative while educating everyone in a manner that is visual, fun, clear, and easy to adapt and share!

In the spirit of collaboration, we’d ENCOURAGE you to share the video on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok, etc. using the hashtags #seeincolors #counselingspace and #mentalhealthincolor!

Let’s make this EDUCATIONAL ANIMATED video viral!

This ensures that you, your loved ones, and the nation LEARN how to PROTECT MINDS and LOWER STRESS during and after these uncertain times.

Leslie Garcia 30/03/2020 Leslie Garcia 30/03/2020

Boost Your Immunity, Beat Stress and Support Your Team!

Everything's a whirlwind right now. Everyone is just doing their best to find some BALANCE — or a quick way to regain it if they find themselves wobbling. We want to encourage you to continue to express and move through your emotions in as many HEALTHY ways as possible. Read our blog for practical resources to boost immunity, beat stress and support your team!

Everything's a whirlwind right now.

My email and social media inboxes have never been so busy. I am getting request after request to support clients, families, support groups and entire teams.

Everyone is just doing their best to find some BALANCE — or a quick way to regain it if they find themselves wobbling.

I want to encourage you to continue to express and move through your emotions in as many HEALTHY ways as possible.

This will help you RELEASE and INTEGRATE and RESET to a new peace in your body, and new energy to begin again.

If you are also looking for practical DAILY steps to BOOST your IMMUNITY and TACKLE STRESS from the time you wake up to bedtime, please download the following guide from our "Hero of the Week" Dr Adeeti Gupta!

IMMUNITY BOOSTER & STRESS BUSTER Checklist

Dr. Gupta, an OBGYN in the NY area, founded the First-Ever Walk IN GYN center after witnessing the deficiencies in Women’s health care. Education, caring for all women with compassion and women’s empowerment through preventative holistic health care are some of the core values that she promulgates.

And WHY is Dr Gupta Counseling Space's hero of the week?

This past week, Dr Gupta contacted Counseling Space to request that we offer our Virtual Wellness Services to her team during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As she encourages at the close of the IMMUNITY BOOSTER AND STRESS BUSTER Checklist, she wants her team to be SAFE, STRONG, and READY in ALL WAYS.

We admire that she recognizes mental preparation as a major component for coping during this current crisis.

If you are a small business owner who is seeking similar support for your team or needing support yourself, you can email us at info@counselingpc.com or BOOK BELOW.

Virtual Wellness Service 1

Virtual Wellness Service 2

At Counseling Space, we are here to support teams like yours and Dr Gupta's so YOU can continue supporting others during this time.

Let's help each other help others.

And, in the meantime, please, take care of yourself.

With Wellness,

Leslie M. Garcia

Leslie Garcia 11/09/2017 Leslie Garcia 11/09/2017

Millennials: From Crisis to Community

Over the last two weeks, we have discussed 2 characteristics that make the millennial generation unlike any other before it: their impressive entrepreneurial spirit and the acute stress they suffer. Yet, there is another distinguishing trait that makes millennials stand out: millennials will utilize social media to promote and fund a charitable organization. In fact, an extraordinary 94% of millennials prefer to use their skills to benefit a cause.

Over the last two weeks, we have discussed 2 characteristics that make the millennial generation unlike any other before it: their impressive entrepreneurial spirit and the acute stress they suffer. Yet, there is another distinguishing trait that makes millennials stand out: millennials will utilize social media to promote and fund a charitable organization. In fact, an extraordinary 94% of millennials prefer to use their skills to benefit a cause.

As we face the 9/11 anniversary, many millennials will have memories of a previous school day marked by loss and horror. The current political climate, devastating hurricanes, and the uncertainty of the Dreamers (DACA) legislation could also have a negative impact on mental health with feelings of helplessness, nervousness, and hopelessness. If these feelings are ignored, there is a risk of developing anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or depression.

At Counseling Space, P.C., our focus is to empower millennials to turn to community so that crisis becomes the energy behind creation! In recognition of September as Suicide Prevention Month and the fact that there are very few mental health and wellness resources tailored to the millennial population, we created the MILLENNIAL MINDS! Support Group for Millennial Women.

Why millennial women? Because millennial women are the MOST stressed of the millennials; many quoting stress as the prime factor preventing them from making healthy lifestyle changes.

This group is designed to empower these millennial women to live with intention by enhancing their self-awareness, improving their mental well-being, exploring problem-solving techniques and so much MORE! Our supportive group sessions start on Tuesday, September 19th and space is LIMITED with only 8 slots available (see flyer for more details).

Lastly, here are some additional resources for those needing more immediate assistance with understanding the rights of Dreamers (DACA), the destruction of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and the weight of this week’s 9/11 commemorations:

Please feel free to share the flyer and information in this post with those you believe it would benefit.

Stay tuned for our final Millennial Monday blog post next week, and have a great week!