Insightful Minds Counseling

09/30/2026

When you have ADHD and your prefrontal cortex actually works for a minute.

09/18/2026

09/14/2026

No judgement here! Glad to have you back.

08/17/2026

“As long as you make an identity for yourself out of the pain, you cannot become free of it. As long as part of your sense of self is invested in your emotional pain, you will unconsciously resist or sabotage every attempt that you make to heal that pain. Why?

Quite simply because you want to keep yourself intact, and the pain has become an essential part of you. This is an unconscious process, and the only way to overcome it is to make it conscious.”

—Eckhart Tolle

06/16/2026

When your therapist explains that understanding your feelings and actually feeling your feelings are two different things…

📊 Intellectualizer Part: “Let’s understand it.”
🤝 People-Pleaser Part: “How does everyone else feel about it?”
🏃 Distractor Part: “Have we considered snacks?”
📋 Planner Part: “Let’s make a strategy.”

Self: “What if we just spent a minute with the feeling?”

📊 Analyzer Part: “Interesting idea. Before we do that, I have 17 theories.”

06/07/2026