Regina Sewell
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Blogs
For quick self-help articles or to see what we're doing at Visions Counseling, check out our blog: Turn Roadblocks into Building Blocks.
For fun, quirky recipes and stories about life in the kitchen, check out Possum Crossing: Culinary Adventures.
If someone you love has Alzheimer's or dementia, read my blog Peering Into Fog about making sense of my mother's Alzheimer's disease.
Articles
Unwinding Codependency
A cheat sheet on Codependency: the signs and symptoms and a rare guide for getting out of the pattern.
Sticks and Stones
Have you ever really stopped to test the saying, 'Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me'? Regina explores the hurtful power of words and makes suggestions as to how to subvert verbal attacks.
Navigating Through the Grit: Conversational GPS for Mixed HIV Status Couples
Kindling to get an honest conversation about HIV started and guidelines to keep the conversation safe
Reach Out and Touch Me
A guide to coping with the trials and tribulations of long distance relationships
*Gender Issues*
Little Boxes
An exploration of the binary approach to gender and kind words for those of us who don’t perfectly fit into the little boxes society has set for us.
*Social Justice Issues*
The Political is Personal
A shout out to the GLBT heroes who made the freedom we have possible
Reason to Celebrate
Where the GLBT community has been, what we’ve accomplished and what we’ve yet to do
Diffusing the Power of Words
Self-defense from the inside out. How to take the sting out of hurtful and hateful words.
*Existential and Spiritual Explorations*
Sex, Ego and Better Living through Louis Vuitton
Sex in the City meets Eckhart Tolle and winds up happily ever after
Sporks in the Road
A hitchhikers guide to the road less traveled
*Physical and Sexual Abuse*
Spinning
How to manage panic attacks and flashbacks
Changing Tapes
A tool box for unhooking ourselves from the emotional triggers that send us into a spin.
*Financial Issues*
Money, Myths and Madness
This article explores how the stories you have about work and money keep you stuck in a financial rut.
Seven Years to Live
If you found out you were going to die in 7 years, what would you want to do before you die?
Follow the Money
A rough guide to managing your budget in tough financial times
Enough
This article looks at the secret to prosperity
*General Self-Help*
Food as a Path to Healing
A review of Geneen Roth’s book: Women, Food and God
The Hallway
Change is hard. One door closes, another opens, but the hallway is a bitch. This article tells you how to get out of the hallway.
Your Emotional Immune System
An explanation of the link between the body and the emotional system and ways to use the body to heal broken hearts and other emotional issues.
Life Sculpture
If your life was a work of art, would you want to frame it and put in on a museum wall or throw it in the rubbish bin? This article helps you explore your life in terms of how you are living relative to how you'd like to live.
*Travel*
Something to BRAG About: Roadtrip 2004
A journal about a recent experience on Bike Ride Across Georgia (BRAG), just for fun.
Current Insight Out articles can be found on Outlook
Selected archived articles can be found below. Click on the title to read the articles of interest. I'll be changing things around so check back for different articles and themes!
*Relationships*
Selected archived articles can be found below. Click on the title to read the articles of interest. I'll be changing things around so check back for different articles and themes!
*Relationships*
Unwinding CodependencyA cheat sheet on Codependency: the signs and symptoms and a rare guide for getting out of the pattern.
Sticks and Stones
Have you ever really stopped to test the saying, 'Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me'? Regina explores the hurtful power of words and makes suggestions as to how to subvert verbal attacks.
Navigating Through the Grit: Conversational GPS for Mixed HIV Status Couples
Kindling to get an honest conversation about HIV started and guidelines to keep the conversation safe
Reach Out and Touch Me
A guide to coping with the trials and tribulations of long distance relationships
*Gender Issues*
Little Boxes
An exploration of the binary approach to gender and kind words for those of us who don’t perfectly fit into the little boxes society has set for us.
*Social Justice Issues*
The Political is Personal
A shout out to the GLBT heroes who made the freedom we have possible
Reason to Celebrate
Where the GLBT community has been, what we’ve accomplished and what we’ve yet to do
Diffusing the Power of Words
Self-defense from the inside out. How to take the sting out of hurtful and hateful words.
*Existential and Spiritual Explorations*
Sex in the City meets Eckhart Tolle and winds up happily ever after
Sporks in the Road
A hitchhikers guide to the road less traveled
*Physical and Sexual Abuse*
Spinning
How to manage panic attacks and flashbacks
Changing Tapes
A tool box for unhooking ourselves from the emotional triggers that send us into a spin.
*Financial Issues*
Money, Myths and Madness
This article explores how the stories you have about work and money keep you stuck in a financial rut.
Seven Years to Live
If you found out you were going to die in 7 years, what would you want to do before you die?
Follow the Money
A rough guide to managing your budget in tough financial times
Enough
This article looks at the secret to prosperity
*General Self-Help*
Food as a Path to Healing
A review of Geneen Roth’s book: Women, Food and God
The Hallway
Change is hard. One door closes, another opens, but the hallway is a bitch. This article tells you how to get out of the hallway.
Your Emotional Immune System
An explanation of the link between the body and the emotional system and ways to use the body to heal broken hearts and other emotional issues.
Life Sculpture
If your life was a work of art, would you want to frame it and put in on a museum wall or throw it in the rubbish bin? This article helps you explore your life in terms of how you are living relative to how you'd like to live.
*Travel*
Something to BRAG About: Roadtrip 2004
A journal about a recent experience on Bike Ride Across Georgia (BRAG), just for fun.
