Counseling with Heart, LLC

02/05/2026

01/23/2026

Today, and every day
Be gentle with your wounds
Walk with kindness in your inner landscape
With compassion and grace
For you are human
With feelings and emotions
Feeling pains and sorrows...
Be patient and loving
To the parts of you that hurt
Grief is heavy
Lost dreams hurt
Judgement scrapes the soul dry
You are human
Attached to what feels real
Veiled by not-knowing
Not-remembering the place of your origin...
A Seeker of peace and ease
Your home is near the forest
The landscape of being human
Is not easy to travel...
Be gentle with yourself
Forgive your self
This is a school
To make mistakes
To learn
To sing
To dance
To make poems...
Sit and write
Tell your story in metaphors
Write the epic story of your life
Be gentle
Always gentle and kind to your Self and Soul..........................................................
Poem by Archaeology for the Woman's Soul
Corina Andronache

01/20/2026

As a gesture of care, we are gifting you our eBook, 10 HeartMath® Practices For Reducing the Stress in Pressured Decisions, Choices and Interactions.
The articles and exercises can help encourage us to increase our care, kindness, compassion, and cooperation with each other.
Chapter topics are, Creating Hope for the Future, Together We Can Change the World, Pursuing Our Purpose and more.

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01/11/2026

11/15/2025

Listening to your heart is important. Scientists have discovered that your heart contains its own sophisticated neural network with more than 40,000 neurons. This intrinsic cardiac nervous system not only controls your heartbeat but also processes information, makes decisions, and communicates directly with your brain. Even more surprising, your heart sends more signals to your brain than your brain sends to your heart. The vagus nerve carries about 80 percent heart-to-brain communication and only 20 percent brain-to-heart.

Your heart is literally influencing your thoughts, emotions, and decisions more than you might realize. This is why it's important in my idea of Embodied Sensemaking. When you get a gut feeling about someone or feel that something is right in your heart, that is not just a figure of speech. It is your heart’s neural network processing complex information faster than your conscious mind can analyze it.

The field of neurocardiology is showing that your heart is not simply a pump. It is an intelligent organ that has been guiding human decision-making for millions of years. Perhaps it is time to start paying closer attention to what your heart has been trying to tell you.

10/12/2025

When a child is melting down, our instincts can take over — and not always the helpful ones.
We might lecture, rush to fix, or tell them to calm down… but these actually block co-regulation rather than build it.

Let’s talk about what not to do — and what to try instead — so we can truly help a child borrow our calm instead of our chaos.

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Managing Big Feelings: A Toolkit for Parents & Educators, a Parent and Educators Toolkit

Helping children turn big emotions into skills for life.

When a child’s emotions feel too big to handle, it can be overwhelming — for them and for you.
Managing Big Feelings: The Toolkit is your go-to resource for guiding children through strong emotions with empathy, clarity, and proven strategies.

What’s Inside:
• Step-by-step calming strategies for moments of overwhelm
• Practical activities to build emotional awareness
• Visual aids to help children recognise and name their feelings
• Scripts and prompts for supportive conversations
• Tools for parents, educators, and support staff

This toolkit is grounded in evidence-based approaches to emotional regulation. It’s designed to work in classrooms, at home, and in one-to-one settings, helping children learn how to manage their emotions in ways that are safe, healthy, and empowering.

Download now and start turning emotional overwhelm into growth, resilience, and connection.

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06/21/2025

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The new flex...

06/14/2025

There’s a certain kind of pain that doesn’t come from the event itself, but from the silence that followed it.
No questions. No comfort. No one saying, “Are you okay?”

When no one names what you went through, it doesn’t just feel lonely- it can make you question whether it even counts.

But here’s the truth: Your nervous system doesn’t need a diagnosis to validate what it felt. It needed someone to notice. To stay. To witness.

Because trauma doesn’t just wound - it isolates. And when that kind of presence was missing, your system may still be searching for it.

Replaying the story. Rewriting the ending. Hoping someone will finally understand.

And here’s the beautiful thing neuroscience confirms: Being witnessed - truly seen and felt by another - can start to heal what disconnection created.

When someone stays present with your pain, your brain begins to come back online. Your nervous system softens. Your body stops bracing. Your story stops spinning in isolation.

Because what was broken in relationship must be mended in relationship.

That’s the power of someone saying: “I see what this did to you. And I’m not going anywhere.”

You deserved that then, and you still deserve it now.

05/12/2025

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