Jennifer Carscadden

04/01/2018

I hope everyone is having a restful long Easter weekend. I have posted April's blog from Custom Counselling which is the last one in the Life Experience Chain. Looking forward to more great psychoeducational posts to come.

LIFE EXPERIENCE April 2018 Custom Counselling Blog Throughout these past months you’ve looked at many different things. You’ve learned that out of your rules and messages given to you as a child came from your beliefs > thoughts > feelings > choices > decisions > behaviour. Each of those is a....

04/01/2018

BEHAVIOUR March 2018 Custom Counselling Blog All of the things we have talked about so far in the Life Experience Chain have been internal activities. Behaviour on the other hand, is external. I like the analogy of the iceberg. All these things (childhood rules and messages, resulting beliefs which....

04/01/2018

DECISIONS February 2018 Custom Counselling Blog In last month’s blog (January 2018), you read about choices and looked at various choices when managing feelings or when triggered by an event. In order to activate a choice, you have to make a decision. But perhaps this is a hard step for you. Le....

01/16/2018

January's blog is about Choices in the Life Experience Chain. Enjoy!

CHOICES January 2018 Custom Counselling Blog At the bottom of every blog in this series of Life Experience Chain, you have read about choices. When you were young, you were “programmed” a certain way. You had no choice; you were a child. However, now you are an adult and you can change the

12/19/2017

Hoping that everyone has a happy holiday with loved ones.

Triggers (part 2) December 2017 Last month we looked at triggers and how they set off a memory tape. This month we are going to look at how to manage the triggers themselves. Next month we will look at choices for managing the bodily reactions that triggers cause. Review: A trigger is something t....

11/26/2017

I’d like to thank Feedspot for awarding Custom Counselling as one of the Top 100 Counselling Blogs. I am grateful for this high recognition and want to thank you for this compliment today. There is no satisfaction more priceless than being recognized for one’s work.
The significance of the Custom Counselling blog was to provide access to psychoeducation for individuals on a vaster scale. However, all of that would not have been possible without the work of my mother Judith Carscadden. In addition to her encouragement to open my practice last year, she gave me the most important gift of all; her time and experience in writing these psychoeducational blogs.
Additionally, I would like to use the chance to express my deep gratitude to those who have touched my life in any way since I started Custom Counselling, you all know who you are, and I am truly grateful for all you have done.
May we all continue to work and support each other.
Thank you again for this award.
Jennifer Carscadden.

11/07/2017

Here is another psychoeducational blog regarding Triggers this month from Custom Counselling written by my mom :-)

TRIGGERS (part 1) Over the past several months Custom Counselling blog has looked at the beginning links in the LIFE EXPERIENCE CHAIN. This month we will discuss TRIGGERS and how they can impact a person. A trigger is something that sets off an old memory tape. Triggers are encountered through the...

10/25/2017

I hope everyone had a restful long weekend. Here is October's Blog.

Over the past four months we have looked at the four primary emotions (anger, fear, sadness, love) and saw how these emotions may have gotten misrepresented by childhood rules and messages. The resulting links in the Life Experience Chain were then some irrational and damaging BELIEFS leading to ill...

09/03/2017

I hope everyone is having a great long weekend. Here is September's blog from Custom Counselling.

LOVE The last on the list of the four primary emotions is love. Remember, humans experience four primary emotions: anger, fear, sadness, and love. All the other feelings are degrees or variations of these four. The features of love vary from contentment to joy. Let’s have a look at some of them: Con...

08/15/2017

Here is Custom Counselling's blog from August. Enjoy the day!

We have looked at the emotions of anger and fear; this month we will examine the feeling of sadness. Remember, humans experience four primary emotions: anger, fear, sadness, and love. All the other feelings are degrees or variations of these four. The features of sadness vary from mild (disappointme...

07/17/2017

FEAR Last month, we looked at the emotion of anger; this month we will examine the feeling of fear. Remember, humans experience four primary emotions: anger, fear, sadness, and love. All the other feelings are degrees or variations of these four. The features of fear vary from mild (shyness) through...

07/17/2017

ANGER Last month, the topic of feelings/emotions was introduced, looking at why feelings are sometimes misidentified, some common facts and fallacies about them and what the purposes of feelings are. Humans experience four primary emotions. They are anger, fear, sadness, and love. Does that surprise...

05/03/2017

Here is May's psycho-educational blog

Emotions are often called “feelings” because you actually feel (sense/experience) the emotion in the body. There is a physiological change that occurs in your body as a direct result of your thoughts that causes these body sensations. So feelings are the body’s response to thoughts. I will be using…

04/03/2017

A quick recap of where we are on The Life Experience Chain: the RULES AND MESSAGES received as a child are all stored in the mind; these get developed into BELIEFS about yourself, your abilities, other people, and life. This belief system then directs the kind of THOUGHTS regarding those particular…

03/04/2017

Last month we looked at some Beliefs and how they are formed from your childhood Rules and Messages. This month will focus on THOUGHTS in the LIFE EXPERIENCE CHAIN and how these thoughts are linked to your beliefs. Let’s look at how the brain operates. Being the most complex organ in the body; it ha...

02/12/2017

February 2017 Custom Counselling Blog

This month we are going to look at Beliefs and how they are formed from your childhood Rules and Messages. If you have ever visited a House of Mirrors, you may have had some good laughs. There are some mirrors that shape you as tall and skinny with foot long arms and hands, other mirrors that

01/05/2017

Custom Counselling ~ January 2017 Blog

Last month we looked at child needs and parenting styles as well as a preliminary preview of the family belief system. The rules establish boundaries about what members of the family can think, say, and do. Messages are what flows out of the rules and sets the foundation for what is perceived about

12/04/2016

A Look at Family In November’s blog, I gave a skeleton outline of the LIFE EXPERIENCE CHAIN that would be the content of the next several blogs. However, before that gets started, since the first link in the chain is about the rules and messages received as a child, I want to talk about