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Mindfulness & Meditation

“When you make friends with the present moment, you feel at home no matter where you are. When you don’t feel at home in the Now, no matter where you go you will carry unease with you”

— Eckhart Tolle

Benefits of Meditation

There is loads of research showing how meditation can help to alleviate stress and anxiety and increase a sense of well being and self-acceptance.

Mindfulness and Therapy

In therapy, mindfulness is a tool that trains you to catch the glimmers of goodness, peace, or rest that are already here, and teaches you to use our attention and intention to expand upon them. ‘Setting your intention’ is a phrase that you often hear in a yoga class, but from a neuroscience perspective how you direct your attention and intention is also how you create structural changes in your brain.

Riding the waves

Mindfulness also trains you to tolerate the unpleasant experiences, and gradually stop identifying them with who the truth of you are. This is life-changing! You are not your thoughts, your feelings, or your experiences—but how often do you feel like you are?

Mindfulness and Meditation

For Example…

Here’s an example. Imagine that you have to give a presentation. You start to feel anxious: your heart starts to beat faster, your throat and chest feel tight and you’re thinking “I need to escape right now or else!” When you are not mindful of what is happening, you will automatically perceive that whole thought and feeling as true, and you will also probably have an even more painful background feeling: it is a problem for you to feel this way. Feeling this way means you’re not okay, or your life won’t be how you want it to be.

When you bring in the energy of mindfulness, you are learning to just notice and accept the tightness in your chest and throat and your desire to not give a presentation without believing the accompanying story line of “feeling this way is a problem and it means I am not good enough.” You learn how to feel and ride the waves, while knowing that you are the ocean. That gives you more space and cognitive power to come up to solutions to the real problems in your life, and not make the things that you can’t control even more painful.

Experience a Richer and More Satisfying Life

This is an incredibly rich practice. Gradually, you find yourself more and more able to stay present to parts of your experience that would have overwhelmed you in the past. Times when you would have shut down. Or lashed out. Or turned to food or substances. Life becomes increasingly rich, complex, and satisfying, and you begin to feel more like the you that you have always wanted to be.

“A warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means…”

— Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

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Testimonials

Margaret is an excellent guide through the tough times

“Margaret is an excellent guide through the tough times that I’ve been facing. She is a wonderful listener and I never felt judged with her in any ways, which is what I was most worried about in speaking to a therapist.“

- Client

Made me feel understood and valued

“The shared experience of being mothers made me feel understood and valued. (Margaret) has a calmness and gentleness that really put me at ease. I learned a lot during our sessions. I identified a lot of underlying belief systems that were causing some of my discomfort and showing themselves after having a baby.”

- Client

She’s offered new ideas and approaches

“Margaret has been a major help to me for dealing with anxiety and depression. She’s offered new ideas and approaches that I had never even thought of”

- Client

Margaret was very down to earth

“Margaret was very down to earth, met me where I was, and led me where I wanted to go.”

- Client

Like talking to a very informed friend

“(Working with Margaret) felt like talking to a very informed friend or colleague vs being talked down to. I really appreciated how informed she was at all times”.

- female client, 26

I feel so much better having someone there…working in my favor

“Highly recommend. Margaret is such a good listener, very understanding and insightful. She helped me find different perspectives and solutions to get over mental health hurdles, without being judgmental or harsh. I feel so much better having someone there that understands me and is working in my favor.”

- Client

I continue to benefit from the work we did

“(Brainspotting with Margaret) helped me to process the trauma in a different, more direct and healing way than I had previously. I continue to benefit from the work we did.”

- Female Client, 55

Clients have a wonderful experience with Margaret

Not only is Margaret a wonderful, skilled therapist, but she continues to explore and learn new ways of showing up with her clients. She is always a student, and that’s the kind of therapist I would want for myself! Clients have a wonderful experience with Margaret and know she is really present with them in the room. Her presence is very gentle, and the clients I have referred have experienced wonderful healing and insight in their work with Margaret.I love her whole body approach to healing and use of Brainspotting in her practice, as well as how she incorporates mindfulness and yoga which is wonderful for clients who already connect to these practice or are integrating it into their process for the first time. I would refer clients to Margaret anytime.

Melanie Reese, LMFT

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Margaret Brittingham, MEd, LPC-MHSP
2200 21st Ave S, Ste 405
Nashville, TN, 37212
Phone: 615.601.0647
Margaret@mindbodytherapistnashville.com

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