Blogs…

5 themed blogs to browse or follow: Bits & Pieces, Golden, You-Me-We, Clarity, Work. Browse or read them all.  You can even follow your favorite!

 

Why Therapy, Education & Consultation?

By now, you've probably explored our website and noticed that Artwell & Clarity offers three main service categories: Therapy, Community & Professional Education, and Organizational Consultation. But how did these seemingly different services come together...

I’m Their Manager – Not Their Therapist!

Therapists make a career out of understanding people—their motivations, fears, personalities, interpersonal styles, and histories—and how all of these life. They know how to communicate in ways that make sense to each client, adjusting their language, tone, and pace...

Change

Change takes time.  Like growing muscle, new insights and skills take time to develop.  And, like growing muscle, change can ache.  But once you gain reliable strength, more becomes do-able and your endurance for change increases.  You – Me - We is a blog thread...

Thank you!

How often do we forget to say "thank you?"  We're in a hurry, distracted... But what if that other person is also hurried or worried and thinking about something else?   Saying "thank you" acknowledges the other person.  Someone brought you coffee, offered to help you...

The Water is Up to Here!

When we spend inordinate time describing, quantifying, and worrying about a problem - describing how the water is up to our eyebrows and wet - we would probably be better off bailing.  When we spend too much time describing, quantifying, and analyzing a problem, we...

Stressed Out? Take a Minute to Listen to the Birds

Stressed Out?  Take a Minute to Listen to the Birds By Susan Stone, MA, LMFT Maybe you have a desk with a window that has a nice tree outside.  In the afternoon (really, whenever you get perplexed or need a quick moment of away-time), do you ever find yourself looking...

Gardening

I have a big, untamed yard. My house, perched in the mountains, was built on virgin land just a few years ago. The thing about virgin land is that the native vegetation has had millennia to perfect itself for the environment.  In rainy years, my yard becomes an...

What Are the “5 Love Languages” All About?

Let’s be real: relationships can sometimes feel like deciphering an alien language. You bring home flowers, and your partner looks at you as if you’ve forgotten their birthday. You clean the entire house, and they respond, “But we never talk anymore!” Sound familiar?...

Only Your Will Can Carve You from Stone

Working on your Self takes incredible amounts of courage. It takes strength, perseverance, honesty and humility. It takes a lot to begin the process ofacknowledging and systematically destroying unhealthy habits in your life. Just because it’s hard, doesn’t mean it...

Face Forward on the Horse

When we become entrenched in examining errors and/or the history of a problem rather than our current circumstance, we are like a horseman facing backward on his horse… likely to get smacked in the head by a branch we don’t see coming. Bits & Pieces is a blog...

Mental Health Links

If you are feeling unsafe, go to the nearest emergency department or call 988, the National Suicide Hotline.

Links below provide handy access to state-specific and national resources for healthcare access, crisis, sobriety, consumer rights, and education.

Check out the resources, quick links, and articles below.

FEATURED BOOKS & READS

Read a good book lately?  Here are Artwell & Clarity’s picks for Spring 2024.  Learn about yourself, others, or the workplace.  Click on the link below the title to visit a retailer who can put this read into your hands.

Heads up: Books can not replace therapy and are not intended to be solutions for your problems.  Why?  Even armed with information and pointers, often we are “standing too close” to ourselves.  Being objective can be tricky, particularly about our long standing habits and ways of being.  That said, Artwell & Clarity encourages you to become informed and then to mindfully consider things.  If a book or other self-help options helps, Yay!  If not, give us a call… we can help.

Raising Good Humans

By Hunter Clarke-Fields and Carla Naumburg

Topic: Parenting

©2019 Hunter Clarke-Fields and Carla Naumburg (P)2019 New Harbinger Publications

Available on Amazon and Audible.

5 Love Lanaguages

By Gary Chapman

Topic: Relationships

©2005 Gary Chapman (P)2005 Oasis Audio LLC

Available on Amazon and Audible.

The 6 Types of Working Genius

By Patrick Lencioni

Topic: Leadership & Teams

©2022 Patrick M. Lencioni (P)2022 Recorded Books

Available on Amazon and Audible.

It Didn't Start With You

By Mark Wolynn

Topic: Trauma

©2016 Mark Wolynn (P)2016 Penguin Audio

Available on Amazon and Audible.

Raising Good Humans

By Hunter Clarke-Fields and Carla Naumburg

Topic: Parenting

“Raising Good Humans” offers practical and mindful strategies to manage stress and avoid the parenting mistakes that your parents and grandparents made.  This is a thoughtful read for all parents.  ©2019 Hunter Clarke-Fields and Carla Naumburg (P)2019 New Harbinger Publications

Available on Amazon and Audible.

5 Love Lanaguages

By Gary Chapman

Topic: Relationships

“The 5 Love Languages” suggests that we each have unique ways to express and communicate love, intimacy, and connection. The book offers insights to couples about understanding (translating) each other’s love language so that communication and connection are more mindful and effective.   ©2005 Gary Chapman (P)2005 Oasis Audio LLC

Available on Amazon and Audible.

The 6 Types of Working Genius

By Patrick Lencioni

Topic: Leadership & Teams

Through the use of a storyteller’s fable, “The 6 Types of Working Genius” encourages leaders to use personal insight alongside a team framework to encourage teams to utilize each other’s strengths, enhancing productivity and reducing judgment.  ©2022 Patrick M. Lencioni (P)2022 Recorded Books

Available on Amazon and Audible.

It Didn't Start With You

By Mark Wolynn

Topic: Trauma

“It Didn’t Start with You” offers insights and guidance for addressing distress like anxiety, depression, and other issues – and outlines how these may be rooted not only in your own experiences but also inherited from family trauma that accumulated over the generations and years.  ©2016 Mark Wolynn (P)2016 Penguin Audio

Available on Amazon and Audible.