Positive daily affirmations can be a powerful tool for enhancing your mental health. These simple statements help reinforce self-worth and boost confidence, especially during challenging times.

We all have a lot going on. Most of us can’t commit to adding an exhaustive, meticulous self-care routine to our lives when our schedules are already packed to the brim, we have family members to care ...

Sip some coffee, eat some breakfast, brush your teeth, and say your affirmations. Everyone has some sort of morning routine. Whether it’s scheduled down to the second, or you typically just find a ...

OARS is an acronym for Open questions, Affirmations, Reflective listening and Summarizing. Though these 4 skills are widely used in various therapeutic settings, they are the core communication skills ...

On July 7, Healthy Archuleta hosted a motivational interviewing (MI) refresher training led by Stacey Foss, bringing together 15 participants from Healthy Archuleta, the Archuleta County Department of ...

In this episode, we explore affirmations as one of the key tools in motivational interviewing. We talk about how to recognize and affirm a client’s strengths to ...

In this episode, we uncover how affirmations strengthen the client–counselor relationship. We discuss how genuine affirmations can inspire confidence and encourage ...

Investigative interviewing – the process of obtaining accurate and complete accounts from victims, witnesses and suspects – is the lifeblood of the criminal justice system. When a crime occurs, ...

Contrary to what the self-help industry suggests, experiencing negative emotions like anger, sadness, fear, and jealousy is a perfectly normal and even essential part of being human. So to reclaim ...

We’ve all seen the daily mantra people while doomscrolling the night away. The ones who swear repeating “Everything works out for me” a dozen times a day fixed their anxiety, their dating life, their ...

Scroll through social media and you'll quickly encounter phrases like "I am worthy" or "I choose happiness". The tantalizing promise is: repeat these positive affirmations often enough and you'll be ...

Self-affirmation theory was proposed by psychologist Claude Steele in the late 1980s and remains popular today. The theory suggests we have a deep desire to craft a personal narrative that we are ...