Relationships, Sharing, & Creating Changes Are Essential
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Linda discusses relationships in her own life and extends to everyone the importance of making and keeping our friends and families close. Enjoy the minor moments in your life that bring about mini miracles. This is one of the first podcasts with a variety of subject matters. Seeking and reaching out to others can never be put on the back burner. Hopefully you will enjoy this podcast and seek to refresh old friendships. Old friends from Tennessee were visiting with Linda this week, neighbors stopped by, and the grand kids made the week a good one. You are encouraged to engage with other people too.
Finding Your Way
Linda then shares a story of going to a Reservoir in Singapore and how easy it is to get lost. Are you losing your way? Have you started a project and not finished it.
Have you ever attended a painting party? Trying fun things can help us discover what we want and need. Creating you own life may come about with changes and new visions. Our priorities are developing as we go.
It’s All About YOU
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Be good to yourself and the choices you make!
Mini Miracles from Minor Moments presents this podcast on YOU the listener. It is time for you to think about what you want and how you are going to create the best version of yourself. Join Linda as she addresses and helps you focus on ideas to become a brilliant YOU!
Just How Do YOU Spell Comfort?
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Welcome to this Podcast Edition on COMFORT! How do YOU spell Comfort?
Does being comfortable in your life mean you are in communication and in good company with other people.
Linda tackles this with a few short stories and ideas to help you build relationships and grow. She suggests learning about what other people want and what you can do to be kind and trusting. 
Hope this gets you thinking about your comfort level with others and how improvements are just one step away from climbing the escalator of success. Enjoy this weeks ideas.
Splitting and Growing to Become Better People
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Splitting and growing plants may sound easy, but splitting our time and energy to do many things is a bit more difficult. The first portion of this podcast is about growth. How do you become inspired about dealing with daily events? Linda talks about Hosta and the need to keep splitting them. She takes it another step for us. How do you split your time? Do you find yourself involved just with work, or just with family? When and how do you grow in your relationships? When do you thrive?
Learning to thrive under different circumstances can be hard. We don’t always feel motivated, but we still continue to move ahead. Give yourself credit when you do that! Filter your thinking and clearing your mind takes time; look at the bigger picture.
How do you build others up? How do you engage with other people? Do you need to build better relationships? Write letters to others, call your acquaintances, help others find their signature strengths! It will help them and help you build integrity.
Next, Linda explains the direction of upcoming podcasts and how they will be broken down into sections so hang on for more.
Hosta
Be Cheerful
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Being cheerful begins with feeling good within ourselves. Linda shares a quick rundown of her latest fun project. Hopefully you will be inspired to find some minor moments that move you into recognizing Mini Miracles.
Take the one step that will put you on the escalator of success. Share with others your joys and sorrows. Connect and become refreshed.
Following Up on Counseling Care
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Counseling care can be the most awesome thing you have ever done. Linda Gullo has been in practice at Delight in Living, Ltd. for over 20 years. Here she offers a few thoughts on why people seek out counseling.
Our mental health and the way we think about things makes all the difference in the world. Whether it is resolving a problem, having faulty thinking, or just plain old grieving, counseling is a great avenue to pursue. In a world where people search for quick fixes and self medicate or just try to ignore the signs and symptoms of loneliness, counseling can help immensely.
This simple 11 minute podcast will hopefully inspire and help you find the care you need. Let the one step place you on the escalator of success.
Counselors are the Best HIDDEN Secret Around!
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Counselors are one of the best hidden secrets around town. This is a first in a series of how we can address issues that tamper with our happiness. This short and impromptu conversation Linda shares with you can help you find meaning and resolve problems along the way. (This is not a script of the podcast, but simply an overview.)
Linda discusses some of the stigma or concerns that you may think about. Issues that are keeping you from being happier can be addressed and resolved. There may be resolution that is quickly resolved by simply discussing a few topics with a professional. One may be grieving from a major loss in your life. You may be simply lacking a focus due to stress. It is good to have a counselor in your rolodex that can be easily contacted as you need one. It is like having a mechanic to call when your car doesn’t start. We take better care of our pets than we do taking care of our mental health.
Be your own Bulldog & sniff out the help you need.
Although faulty thinking accumulates over time , one can step away and reclaim thinking for themselves. We can filter out what doesn’t reflect our values and find happiness. It floods back into our lives with a few minor adjustments that come to our attention.
Communication is an ongoing process. We need to feel comfortable with ourselves to enjoy life fully. Although we use words, we aren’t communicating what we really need or want. The people around us are also so involved in their own lives that they do not have the skills or time to reach out and help you resolve problems.
Stay tuned for the next Podcast in a week on the potential goodness that arises and some of the topics you are able to bring forward.
Stop waiting and begin creating the life you want. Don’t keep hidden helpers (namely Couselors) away. Take the first step forward and put yourself on the escalator of success. Try counseling. Get the support and joy you richly deserve.
Looking for JOY All Over the Place
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Are you looking for Joy?
Welcome to the first edition of Mini Miracles from Minor Moments for April 2018. This is your Host Linda Gullo and I am here to welcome you to Mini Miracles from Minor Moments. You know by now that these occur every single day! We just forget to recognize and enjoy them fully. It’s the minor moments that present opportunities for us to get to know ourselves better.
Today is Podcast 85 on JOY – “yup I said JOY!” With Easter just this past Sunday, it reminded me that there are so many Easter blessings that will be showing up. Already the days seem longer and the sun is popping up (even in light of some brief snowfalls here. It just is the season to be joyful. Today as I left the house, I noticed that several of the trees had buds—that is so nice to see. And there was a furry line of green were I have lilies planted. Every time something new comes up there is an opportunity for us to carry in JOY and embellish it.
Fresh Flowers by Debbie
An invitation to a business nearby came via the email. I knew the timing would not work, but I longed to reconnect with the lady who sent the invitation. A Quick email back to her directly and BINGO, we had breakfast together yesterday morning. We have so much in common with one another, yet we haven’t sat down to really share in 2 years. What is that about? It was a wake up call to me that and something I am trying to change. I need to stayed connected with the people who make life JOY FILLED.
Years ago I remember Oprah saying that we needed to create things around us that are beautiful. To put ourselves in an environment that made us happy. It took me back the the earliest years of my marriage. I loved being a homemaker. My son said I was the first Martha Steward. I loved decorating our home, sewing the curtains and making covers for all the kitchen appliances. I found a great fabric outlet from an upholstering company and thrived on going there. Our yard was embellished with all kinds of bird houses and fun things. Together my husband and I refinished pieces of furniture and made our home a true reflection of us. We have always loved our home and the environment we created around us! To us that spells JOY and good time.
So perhaps if you are missing that feeling of happiness, stop and think what is fun for you? What would the ideal life be? Is it going to a concert with a bunch of friends or to the local outdoor concerts each summer? Is it repainting an old piece of furniture or taking up a new hobby. Maybe it is learning something new that you do with a group of people? Are you missing the JOY of people in your life? Engage in hobbies or groups where you can be involved.
One of the hardest things in many marriages is when one person has a hobby and the other one doesn’t. Or when the two hobbies clash. Perhaps you love messing around on the computer but your spouse likes to cook and wants you around all the time.
It can be hard to balance things out when that happens. I recall a funny episode in my sewing room years ago. I had a fabric model called Sally Stitch. It was my size and I’d pin and design clothes on her. She stood in the sewing room while I was playing at the sewing machine one day when my husband walked in. Apparently he was lonely for some attention and decided to be silly. In need of some attention from me, he began to dance around with Sally. I remember laughing at his antics. But he did get my attention, so much so, that I remember it all these years.
When I am totally bored and need a boost, I will go to a Floral shop and look for pretty smelling flower arrangement. Suddenly the muggy humid air and freshness wakes me up and gets me moving again. It is particularly helpful in the dark long days of winter.
Even now I find myself with other people flocking to buy trays of the newest annuals and perennials each spring. How about you? Are you ordering those gardening manuals or thinking of your yard? It’s fun to see the crocus’ and baby violets popping up.
So ladies and gents, I wish you all a marvelous springtime of JOY and getting out and about this weekend. Take that first step, it will put you on the escalator of success and Joy.
Until next week, have a glorious weekend, and do something fun!
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Counseling & Coaching-Partners in Care
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Hi I am your host Linda Gullo and this is podcast #87. I hope Mini Miracles from Minor Moments will indeed help you find that good things are blossoming all around. These small daily events are truly gifts that give us a feeling of playfulness, confidence, and fulfillment.
Today the topic is one that was requested from a friend who is in one of my Mastermind groups. Just what is the difference between a counselor and a coach? do you prescribe drugs? do you do hypnosis? What training do you have?
Well, Delight in Living counseling is celebrating 20 years in business. It has offered one-on-one psychotherapy. People present concerns from their past that may be affecting their current relationships, occupation and/or choices. Perhaps something in ones family has erupted and is dividing the family.
Has the loss of a job thrown you into depression? Are you suddenly branded with a disease? Are you watching the decline of a parent? How do you proceed?
Often their presenting issues seem obvious and simple to deal with if you are not the person in crisis. Conversations with a professional counselor can help you get past the experiences that keep resurfacing. It could be that you lost a sibling and now you are a generation past that and you see things with your own family that are troubling.
Not all counselors use the same approach. Yet most counselors are pretty well educated. They can direct you to care takers who specialize if they themselves do not do certain forms of care.
Insights opened up during therapy sessions bring opportunities for greater success and joy through reframing, openly discussing, and seeing the good that has evolved along the past. Problems, although very real, become little easier to confront. Ideas on reframing their importance or ways to restructure thinking, removes barriers that are preventing you from enjoying life as it is today.
Counseling calls for a therapeutic bond to take place between the client and therapist. A level of trust and confidentiality is essential. Neither Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors nor Coaches prescribe medication. We do as Counselors know the many drugs our patients are taking because of their effects, whether long or short term, and will in some cases, be in touch with the doctors who have prescribed them. This is an option that the patient or client has chosen. They must give written consent for this.
People often present symptoms of depression. They may have physical side effects of high blood pressure, frequent headaches, or short tempers when tension seems to overflow. Anger resentment and or anxiety may contribute to relationship problems. Job losses, poor health, or monetary concerns may result and need to be addressed for things to improve.
Counseling care is often covered for Clinical DSM diagnostic codes. Coaching is usually not covered by insurance.
Counselors allow a safe environment in order for people to safely vent and regain confidence. Sometimes thinking clears up and a pathway to resolve long standing frustrations can evolve.If patients are on medication the counselor can and often will be in touch with the prescribing psychiatrist for continuity purposes.
Coaching on the other hand takes on a different approach. Coaches have endless stories and illustrations to help their clients set goals and move ahead. There are life coaches, as well as, business coaches. Neither are licensed although they may have received training and continuing education requirements in other areas. They may have become coaches from working at large corporations or carry an expertise that allows them to train.
Mini Miracles Coaching is a diversion of Delight in Living and offers online and phone coaching services. For people starting in business, moving across the country or pursuing new dreams this service offers hands on ideas to setting up plans on zeroing in on goals. A well-trained professional is able to facilitate growth and confidence.
As a counselor for the last 20 plus years, I have enjoyed working in Behavioral Health. It has allowed me to be with people and move them ahead. Now as I ease into the Coaching realm, I will be using these skills to help people adjust to feeling better in their day to day lives. Adjusting their physical, spiritual, and daily needs into packages of success and fulfillment.
Hopefully this has helped make a few distinctions between counseling and coaching. Remember that asking for help is wisdom, not weakness. We are here to help you take a step that will put you on the escalator of success. Have a great week and enjoy the sunshine that spring brings to us.