by Lucille | Apr 20, 2017 | Blog, Counseling, Trauma
I’m excited about this new podcast Mod World. In Episode 1 Prince Harry speaks to the Telegraph’s Bryony Gordon for the first episode of her new podcast, Mad World, where she interviews guests about their mental health experiences. The half-hour...
by Lucille | Apr 8, 2017 | Blog, Counseling, Trauma
Yesterday an acquaintance on social media sent me a private message. She had a question about a type of trauma treatment called EMDR. If you don’t know what EMDR is, check out this video. It looks woo-woo, but it is actually a powerful tool that many...
by Lucille | Mar 24, 2017 | Blog, Books, Counseling, Trauma
You may remember in my book Renewed: Finding Your Inner Happy in an Overwhelmed World where I talked about the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE), which shows a scientific link between many types of childhood adversities and the adult onset of physical and...
by Lucille | Feb 28, 2017 | Blog, Counseling, Psychology, Relationships, Self Care
I’m in a social/friendly Facebook group where people randomly share situations in which they are needing advice from others. Here is one I saw and how I responded: I need some friendship advice. I’m in a difficult situation with one of my friends — he...
by Lucille | Feb 15, 2017 | Counseling, Psychology, Relationships, Trauma
When I was 37, with middleschool children at home, I went to graduate school to study counseling. If you had met me then you would have seen a perfectionistic, seemingly happy young women. But in reality, I hid a lot of shame and massive amounts of unprocessed trauma....
by Lucille | Feb 6, 2017 | Counseling, Psychology, Trauma
I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor, Author, and Teacher at a local university. My tagline is “help for hurting people.” Last week I sent out an email asking my subscribers what they wanted me to write more about. Two popular topics were grief and...
23 hours ago by lucille_zimmerman Hotel livin. John is getting some work done before a friend comes over and we go to dinner. And we're finally getting our Christmas presents to her ☃️and it's 98 degrees outside.
22 hours ago by lucille_zimmerman Just finished reading this one. Totally out of my wheelhouse but recommended by a British friend. So glad I read it and now I'm passing it on to John's dad. #themanwhoneverwas #operationmincemeat
1 day ago by lucille_zimmerman Still quite a bit of snow here in #Breckenridge I'm hanging out with my husband today and tomorrow delivering work.
3 days ago by lucille_zimmerman #livinonkeywesttime in our Colorado backyard. I don't know why John's ear looks red in this picture---maybe the lights were glowing on him. He has one more day of intense work and then gets to deliver two years worth of work to his counties, and we get to take some much-needed time off. Our friend from Canada is coming to visit and we're going to show off Colorado. #summertime #SweetSunshine
