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Basic Steps Mental Health is conducting another Zoom Meeting to help people get through the difficulties in their life through self-help tools. A little knowledge can go a long way, a lot of knowledge can help you thrive. A thank you to all that attended our last Zoom meeting. It was our best ever and our hope is to even surpass that one. Our program teaches people the Spiritual Psychology...

Spiritual Psychology has its roots from the early 1900s when Roberto Assagioli departed from Sigmund Freud who believed that man was motivated by sexual needs. Assagioli believed that people were motivated by the need to be whole – basically enlightened. This model forms the basis of the Spiritual Psychology movement of today. It is understandable that people do not want to suffer, but how to...

Dig in, it is rumored that the restrictions from the COVID-19 Virus will be going on for 18-months. Because of this, it is best to adapt and change with the times. There is a great book named, “Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson that may be a great guide for us to follow. In the book, there are two rats and two little people who live in a maze. The maze at first is filled with cheese and...

Did you ever believe this pandemic would go on so long? Isn’t it surreal to go shopping and seeing everyone masked up? I heard that in China they have monitors on people and anybody who has a temperature is whisked away to the hospital for a checkup. Their numbers are going down, ours aren’t. A person I know who works at the CDC who predicted at the outset of the disease, that it was going to...

Surviving the Pandemic is a free 1 ½ hour Zoom meeting for people to discuss the difficulties they have been experiencing during this tumultuous time, and learn Psychological tools to not only cope, but heal and grow. Without the normal distractions of travel, restaurants, the gym, shopping, music, bars, coffee shops, etc. etc., we are suddenly stuck with ourselves and dealing with our...

Listen to Dr. Scott Alpert’s Mental Health Minute HERE: Compassionate Care is Always Available There are many more tools and strategies you can use in your pursuit of happiness. Here is where we come in. Contact us at Basic Steps Mental Health and let us support and educate you on this journey back to your loving heart center. Imagine living a heart-centered life, regardless of what is...

Have you ever had thoughts that go around and around in your head? If so, get ready to learn some innovative tools to rid yourself of them. Repetitive thoughts are basically unprocessed issues that the mind wants to resolve. To resolve them, there are a few strategies that may be of great help. There is nothing worse than trying to go to sleep and being tortured by what you did, what you...

As a therapist, I am always asking people who are going through difficult times to find happiness within. To discover what makes them happy, and then do that. For individuals who had a difficult childhood, I ask them what made them happy when they were a child and do that, through the use of the opposite hand or opposite foot play. The model that I use is: “When love is applied to hurt, we...

An article about the benefits of COVID? How could something that causes people to die, lose their job, their home, their freedom, and even their mobility be a good thing? When given a spiritual point of view, you may have a different vantage point. Spirituality, according to Alcoholics Anonymous is the belief in something greater than us restoring us to sanity. No, this isn’t an article on AA,...

Take the next few minutes to take the following mental health test. It will let you know how you are currently doing in your life. Please answer as honestly as you can. Now is not the time to lie to yourself.   Poor Below Average   Average Above Average   Excellent Physical Health Energy Level Level of Daily Exercise Amount of Sleep Diet Positive...