by Lucille | Jun 29, 2017 | Blog, Counseling
Whenever me and my husband take group tours to Europe we make such fabulous memories. Planning these trips, and then taking them, makes each day after our vacation richer. But one thing we’ve learned about our trips is that a lot of things are going to go...
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....
5 hours ago by lucille_zimmerman #fromagination I haven't had enough cheese while I was here in Wisconsin. Tomorrow I'm going to change that.
4 hours ago by lucille_zimmerman This is how I'm feeling after a weeklong training. But it was so good. I met the nicest people and learned so much. I didn't sleep last night because of the storms. When I get this tired I cry easily but they are tears of pure joy and gratitude.
1 day ago by lucille_zimmerman 45 pages front and back, so that's 90 pages, and we still have one day to go. This Bethel series.org training is so rich! Probably the best training I've ever been to.
