Mental Health
More Than Wiring: Understanding Mental Health & the Possibility of Healing
Healthy Living Brought to you by: Community Partner Still Waters Counseling and Education Center, www.mystillwaters.org We all face mental health challenges at times, just as we all experience physical challenges. A hard season, a loss, or ongoing pressure can leave us feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or discouraged. Often, these symptoms pass. But sometimes they do not. Sometimes …
A Season of Sending at Still Waters Counseling and Education Center
Healthy Living Brought to you by: Community Partner Still Waters Counseling & Education Center, www.mystillwaters.org This spring, the first two development interns for Still Waters Counseling and Education Center will graduate from Samford University. Madeline Solis and Milly Criswell are leaving their internships with lessons and experience that they will carry with them into their …
Resurrecting Hope
Healthy Living Brought to you by: Community Partner Still Waters Counseling and Education Center, www.mystillwaters.org The season of Easter holds the full spectrum of human emotions, the deepest of grief and the most profound joy. We mourn and we celebrate. The story of Easter begins in sorrow. The disciples watched the one they loved suffer and die. Their hopes seemed buried …
Why Does It Feel Like Everyone is Struggling?
Healthy Living Brought to you by: Community Partner Still Waters Counseling and Education Center, www.mystillwaters.org You don’t have to be a therapist to notice it. More people are feeling overwhelmed. More families are stretched thin. More parents worry about their children. More adults quietly wonder why coping feels harder than it used to. You may have heard this called “the national mental health crisis” because …
Behind the Mask: Finding Joy that Lasts
Healthy Living Brought to you by: Community Partner Still Waters Counseling and Education Center, www.mystillwaters.org Mardi Gras is known for celebration, beads, masks, and music, a season of feasting before the sacrificial rhythms of Lent. Spiritually, these seasons are not in competition with one another. Mardi Gras celebrates God’s abundance and embodied joy, while Lent …
What If This Year Began with More Than Wishful Thinking?
Healthy Living A fresh start requires more than willpower – it begins with a fortified plan. January invites hope. New calendars, new goals, and the quiet promise that this year might finally be different. Yet many people step into the new year carrying the same exhaustion, emotional weight, and unanswered questions from the year before. …
Renewal in The New Year
Healthy Living Brought to you by: Community Partner Still Waters Counseling & Education Center, www.mystillwaters.org A new year often begins with a lot of noise—resolutions, plans, and lists. But beneath it all, most of us are craving something quieter: peace, spiritual prosperity, and a fresh sense of who we are and what our purpose is. …
Meeting People Where They Are: Still Waters Counseling
Healthy Living Brought to you by: Community Partner Still Waters Counseling and Education Center, mystillwaters.org The team at Still Waters Counseling and Education Center is passionate about making counseling accessible to everyone. In addition to accepting most major insurance plans, Still Waters offers a sliding scale to keep therapy accessible for individuals and families. The …
Before the Year Ends: Give Yourself Permission to Heal
Healthy Living December can be a month of both joy and exhaustion. We decorate, bake, plan, and give — but beneath the sparkle, many hearts are quietly weary. We push through pain, promise to “deal with it after the holidays,” and tell ourselves that everyone else’s needs come first. But here’s the truth: sometimes the …
Strong on the Outside, Struggling Inside
Healthy Living If you’re like many people, you’ve learned to smile through the stress, show up for everyone else, and keep life running smoothly — even when your heart feels heavy. You tell yourself, I just need to push through a little longer, but deep down, you know something has to change. The truth is, …
