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Guided Mental Grounding Exercise
Over the next few weeks I'll be guiding you in some grounding exercise. Grounding is a set of exercises designed to distance you from...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 11, 20212 min read
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Mental Grounding Script
This first exercise uses mental grounding methods. Start by reminding yourself that you are safe. You are here, in this moment. Now take...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 11, 20212 min read
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Five Facts About Anxiety
Here's a short video to give you a brief overview of anxiety.
Melanie Sivley
Aug 11, 20211 min read
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Creating Your Calm Place
Creating and strengthening a calm place is one of my favorite EMDR exercises. Think of it this way...you have a memory network or a...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 11, 20211 min read
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Creating and Using a 'Container'
Today is all about learning a handy EMDR Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) technique. How to create and use a container. Do...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 11, 20211 min read
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Should You See a Therapist for Your Anxiety?
Let's talk about anxiety! Did you know that anxiety affects 40 million adults in the United States. That's just a little over 18% of the...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 11, 20211 min read
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10 Key Strategies for Working/School from Home
Working and going to school from home can be challenging. It is so easy to feel overwhelmed by anxiety or sink into a depression that...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 11, 20212 min read
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Weird Dreams
Are you experiencing vivid dreams while sheltering in place? You're not alone! Tune in to learn more and as I guide you through a short...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 11, 20211 min read
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What is Teletherapy?
This is easily the most challenging time anyone of us have ever experienced. It's okay to be anxious, scared, irritable, angry, sad,...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 11, 20211 min read
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Isolation and Depression
We are social animals. Even the most introverted of us need connection. This can be challenging at any time but especially now in the age...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 11, 20211 min read
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Anxiety and the Body
Feeling anxious, stressed and anger can be really uncomfortable. Sometimes the physical sensations are the most disturbing part of the...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 11, 20211 min read
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Challenging Negative Thoughts
So many of us have that 'tape' running in the back of our head. It's exhausting always having that voice that's telling you all the bad...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 11, 20211 min read
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Safe Place/Calm Place
Creating a safe/calm place using EMDR is easily one of my favorite things to do with clients. It's calming for them and they find it...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 11, 20211 min read
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Soothing Grounding
Soothing grounding is a way to talk kindly to yourself by focusing on things that make you happy. Great for depression and anxiety. When...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 7, 20211 min read
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Physical Grounding
Physical Grounding is great for stress, anger, anxiety and dissociation.
Melanie Sivley
Aug 7, 20211 min read
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Mental Grounding to Help with Anxiety
Mental grounding is an excellent way to help manage anxiety, dissociation and other strong negative emotions. It helps anchor you into...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 7, 20211 min read
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Grounding- An overview
I continue exploring the changes in our community here in Champaign/Urbana and all of Illinois, that occurred virtually overnight. I also...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 7, 20211 min read
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4/7/8 Breathing
I continue processing the pandemic and what sheltering place is like. Although I reject the concept of 'social distancing' I fully...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 7, 20211 min read
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Getting through the Pandemic Successfully
This is day two of our collective awareness of just how much Covid-19 would change our lives. Anxiety, depression, anger, stress,...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 7, 20211 min read
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Caring for your Mental Health During Covid-19
This is a weird, stressful, difficult time. I felt called to start a series of videos speaking to this crisis and how best to navigate it...
Melanie Sivley
Aug 7, 20211 min read
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