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Anna Kraft, LPC Get to Know Me
Anna Kraft, LPC is a licensed therapist in the state of WI with Empowerment Within LLC. Click here to get to know her a little more!
When the negative thoughts are too loud.
When your negative thoughts get too loud, acknowledging them instead of avoiding them may actually be the way through.
How You Experience Your Body Impacts How You Experience Life
How you experience your body impacts your quality of life. Learn more here on what type of body image you may be struggling with and how therapy can help!
Hoarding: Finding the Door To Healing
Millions struggle with significant hoarding problems. You aren’t alone, your family member isn’t lazy or irresponsible. It is usually the opposite – stemming from perfectionism, or feeling too much responsibility that leads to feeling like you can’t let anything go.
Therapy Doesn’t Work for Me
What makes therapy work is the relationship you have with your therapist and finding the right method for you.
How Can I Be More Positive?
The more evidence we provide ourselves that pleasant or neutral events are occurring, the more likely we are to combat narratives like the “bad day.” As you work to implement this exercise, be cautious of the difference between embodying pleasant experiences vs toxic positivity.
Self-Compassion: What Is It and How Do I Practice It?
Self-compassion is a hard concept to grasp. There are many schools of thought when it comes to what self-compassion is vs. what it isn’t. The first thing to address is understanding the difference between self-indulgence, self-compassion, and self-pity.
What Does Your Regret Say About You and Your Values?
Understanding what makes you feel regretful, assessing false vs genuine guilt, and realigning with your values to find peace.
4 Tools To Calm Your Mind
4 tools to help you calm your body and mind when feeling anxious, stressed or down. Click here to learn how to implement these tools.
The Power of Personal Attunement – Learning the Art of Self-Connection
Attunement revolves around your ability to connect and sense what is happening within your client. Attunement in the general public can be knowing what your partner needs before they ask, sensing that a friend is down even if they put a smile on.
Building Trust in Yourself, 4 Simple Steps and Additional Tips
“Trust yourself” is a common phrase people use – telling you to follow your intuition or gut. Listen to yourself about what you should do next or where you should go. Trusting ourselves isn’t so easy when we haven’t been taught that we are trustworthy.
Understanding Your Need to People-Please
If you find yourself struggling with constantly caring for others over yourself, you need to examine the part of you that is wounded, the part that feels like your connection to others can only be maintained through our ability to people-please and caretake.
Working With Your Inner Critic and Moving Towards Self-Compassion
We need to learn to move from a place of motivation from criticism to motivation from self-compassion. People use self-criticism as a “motivator.” If we are our own worst critic then we will push ourselves farther. Unfortunately, that’s not the truth and in reality, actually holds us back.
New Year’s Reflection – Moving From 2020 to 2021 During a Pandemic
This year looks a lot different from 2020 new year's. Patrice reflects on how this year's reflection looks different and working on embracing time & patience into 2021.
The Importance of Rest and Relaxation for Our Well-Being & Brain Functioning
We often treat rest and relaxation as a reward. Something to be earned after burning the candle at both ends. In Western culture, this is seen as laziness. We have created a whole narrative to go with relaxation because we don’t understand its function.
Pushing Outside the Comfort Zone and Into Growth
As you move into your learning zone and gain trust that you will know where the line of unnecessary risk is, your comfort and learning zones grow. In turn, you can push yourself a little farther, find and take more opportunities you didn’t know existed, and create more space to find and be who you are.
Resources To Discuss Race, Racism and Our Society
To be a part of conversations, race, racism and our society, and to have opinions, we have to be open to new information and continue to challenge ourselves to gather information to be educated on institutional racism and its impacts on our community.
Self-Compassion to Clear
Now that you have been able to create more self-awareness of your mind you can work towards self-compassion and validation to allow a release of the chaos.
We Are All Leaders
We are all leaders, we all have people looking at us, modeling from us, and learning from us. In these times of crisis, this is amplified. So what does it mean to be a leader, especially in times of crisis?
What Is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a body-based therapy that helps resolve past experiences so that they no longer inhibit you. Brainspotting resolves old stories in the lower parts of our brains that make us reactive or block us from taking care of ourselves we can engage in our lives to create more self-fulfillment and awareness.