Stefanie Raccuglia PC

The Body Love Society on TikTok TW: All of them ... Can we stop commenting on people's bodies now? Thanks.

It’s a mindset 🎩. Truth, Beauty, Freedom, Love 🤎

Today is a day for courage 🫶

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Melanie Mitchum on TikTok Thanks George McEachran!

Purchasing this amazing art by 😍 Come check it out!! 910 Arts, Studio 12b!! First Friday on Santa Fe!!! .field

Do You Have a Stable Work-Life Balance?
Let me know in the comments!

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Do You Have A Stable Work-Life Balance?

For whoever needs this re-frame 🪟. …I am TERRIFIED of being bored. It’s a very particular combination of restlessness and low self-worth (not enough—ness) in how it lives in my body. AND I am often completely unsuccessful in what I do to avoid these sensations and alleviate these feelings (i.e. watching too much TV, snacking mindlessly, googling health concerns, scrolling) because those behaviors, well, they make me feel like 💩 Tonight, however, I got so bored of my avoidance of boredom, I just did something different. I opened my new book by Brene Brown, “Atlas of the Heart” 🫀… just as she predicted🔮 Always grateful for , becoming grateful for boredom 💁🏻‍♀️.

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Mom's 2-Year-Old Son Thought Encanto Character Was Him: "It Was the Impact of Feeling Seen" "There's power in representation," his mom said.

Thanks Sarah Ashlee for sharing this!

“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.

It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.

It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.

A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.

True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.

And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.

It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.

It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.

If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.

It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.

It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.

It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.”
-Brianna Wiest
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Anyone else staying up too late—completely dysregulating their nervous systems 🧠, freaking themselves out before bed 👻and avoiding all things that would be remotely peaceful and healthy 🧘🏻‍♀️because it’s Halloween 🎃 and it only happens once a year and you love it?! 🧙🏻‍♀️

And if you're unsure, shut your mouth 👍

7 Things Teenagers Desperately Need Adults to Understand 7 ways to quiet your teen's negative self-talk.

“Therapists need to pay attention to their own bodymind to sense and feel what is happening in their client’s bodymind.”

~ Barb Maiberger

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See my interview with the awesome team at Zencare! https://blog.zencare.co/therapy-stefanie-raccuglia-lpc/

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Therapy with Stefanie Raccuglia, LPC Stefanie Raccuglia is a therapist in Denver, CO. We spoke with Stefanie about her background, therapy philosophy, and what to expect in sessions with her.

Insights and thoughts about 2021 so far....
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Let love in ❤️✨. Happy Valentine’s 💘

When you come back to your office from being away and a little rattled and your best frenn and bizz partner know’s just how to remind you that you belong exactly where you are🤩✨ thank you .field . Love you 💕

It’s a new dawn and a new day.... 🎆🎇🎆 ...those fireworks though!!!!!.

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Hard to lean into gratitude this Thanksgiving? I get it. 🦃. Gratitude is not about being grateful that things went your way, you got what you wanted, or using “ ”.

Gratitude is about things NOT going your way, things NOT being easy, and yet you can still feel a sense of grace, resilience, personal power, and humility. You still have compassion and you still want to pay it forward.

Gratitude is felt, not thought. Gratitude is in actions, not words. Gratitude is a skill that serves our well-being, not our happiness.

True gratitude recognizes the complexities of the human experience: we will always HAVE (abundance) and we always LACK (scarcity) both at the same time.

So without intending to minimize the challenging feelings that might be present for you this Thanksgiving holiday, I invite you to lean into ALL of your humanness. 🍁

Hearing feedback can either be painful or prideful. Neither of these extremes serve us, and both take us away from our center. Hearing positive feedback may even be harder than critical feedback. ...

Follow my 6 Tips for learning how to hear feedback with grace, self-compassion and personal power.

Tip 6- Text yourself 3 positive things you heard about you that day (big or small)

Each day before bed, or throughout the day, those texts will be present in your inbox as a forever reminder to accept the positive.

It can be just as challenging to hear thepositive feedback as it is to be negative. Notice if you search or reach for criticismson things you did “wrong”.
This is part of a powerful self-sabotaging system that thrives off “stress”.

Practice hearing and accepting positive feedback with breathand deep gratitude. Not gratitude because things went your way or because someone else noticed, but gratitude because you worked really hard, gained some wisdom and worked through challenges.