Mindfulness can be seamlessly incorporated into your daily life and positively affect your mental health to help you have a happier, healthi

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a practice that has been proven to help reduce stress and support health, healing, and personal

We’ve all experienced the power that music has to alter our emotional state – it can relax us, pump us up, or even bring us to tears. What is less widely-known is that music and sound can also alter our physical state. The idea that sound can heal the body and mind has been around for millennia. Use of the Tibetan singing bowls, for example, goes back 2,400 years (Shrestha, 2018) and are still used today, including here at Mindful Ways to Wellness in St. Petersburg, FL. The A

Waking up to the sound of birds, the warmth of the sun on the fresh bed sheets, the smell of coffee being prepared somewhere nearby... These are some of life’s little pleasures. Tuning in to the present moment and really enjoying it is a sure-fire way to enhance wellness. Mindfulness is defined as “paying attention in the present moment, without judgment.” Practicing mindfulness is effective in improving sleep, reducing anxiety, reducing pain and decreasing blood pressure. Th

For some people, the term perfectionism simply refers to a healthy sense of striving for personal excellence, for doing their absolute best. For others, including myself, it is an entrenched pattern of critical thinking that is often self-sabotaging and interferes with achievement of our personal goals, including maintaining healthy relationships, career success, and general life satisfaction. The truth is that perfection is subjective; one person’s idea of perfection rarely

Excessive feelings of shame are one of the common underlying reasons for seeking counseling. Shame is felt when people feel they have failed, when people are rejected, or perceive that they are somehow lesser in value than others. Healthy shame is a response to specific situations of failure or rejection. It becomes unhealthy when the negative self-evaluation is perceived to be a defining and unchangeable part of the self. It is important to note that shame and guilt are ofte