Tag: Self-Care
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How to Feel Less Depressed During the Holiday
Depression during the holiday season is not uncommon and can be especially difficult to manage. After all, this is supposed to be the happiest time of the year. Is it not? It’s everywhere you look in American society…holiday movies, books, and music is filled with hope, love, and togetherness. Being bombarded with holiday merriment can…
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How to Adjust Your Superhero Cape During Turbulent Times
The only thing that is constant is change. These words ring just as true 1,500 years after they were first spoken by Heraclitus in ancient Greece. My love for Greek philosophy aside…my career has taken some very dramatic twist and turns over the past 3 years and I’ve had to adjust a lot to keep moving forward.…
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Time Management Tips for School Counselors
Welcome to Time Management Tips for School Counselors! The first installment in my new blog series for new school counselors (and seasoned veterans looking for a fresh idea or two). It is my hope that this blog series will save you time and frustration! Time management for school counselors is essential, but it’s also a…
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Prevent School Counselor Burnout with Self-Care
Self-care can seem like a pipe dream when school counselors are stretched to the max at the end of the school year. As summer break approaches, educators can find themselves mentally tapped out and questioning their ability to make it through the last 15 days with their sanity intact. Rather than go through all of…
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Tips for School Counselors: The Art of Saying No
**Just to clarify…this article is not about refusing requests. Rather, it’s about finding a way to say “yes” in a way that benefits the majority in your counseling program.** School counselors are trained to help people. Students, parents, teachers, administrators, PTO members, and community organizations require our time and efforts. While it’s an honor to…
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Seize the Moment: The Art of Failing Forward
Typically, we associate “seizing the moment” with some sort of victory. I’m not talking about that kind of “seize the moment”. I’m talking about the moments in life when we fall flat on our face, when we feel like crawling under the covers for the next 48 hours (or so), when we question why we…
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Counseling, Coping Skills, and Crocheting: OH MY!
How are you with practicing self-care? Do you take the time to recharge your batteries or do you give and give until you pass out from sheer exhaustion? People who take care of others are sometimes the worst practitioners of self-care. We get into the business of helping others but then we tend to forget…
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18 Coping Skills: Strategies for Children and Teens
Coping skills have been a pretty popular topic for discussion over on The Helpful Counselor Facebook Page. So many great ideas were shared that I thought it would be good to write a coping skills blog post to have them in one place. 🙂 Here are some of the great coping skill strategies (in no…
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Counselor and Educator Self-Care: Smile File
Counselor and educator self-care is more important now that ever. With the promise of summer break right around the corner, it’s hard to not wish we were on the beach instead of inside a stuffy classroom. It’s during these times that we need to practice a bit of self-care and remind ourselves why we do…
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Develop Self-Esteem Through Character Traits
Developing a strong sense-of-self is a crucial part in strengthening self-esteem. Judging ourselves by character traits that we think we ought to have and not the traits that we possess naturally sets us up for disappointment. The trick to developing a powerful sense-of-self and self-esteem is by finding out what our “genius” is. Children and teenagers…