Mainspring Counseling and Training Services, LLC

🌍World Kindness Week 🗓️

“Our inner reality creates the outer form.”
— Vivian Ayers (as quoted by Phylicia Rashad)

This year for World Kindness Week, with prices high and money tight, we’re remembering one truth:

Kindness is a currency too.

This week we are making deposits into our emotional checking accounts: small inner gestures that become outer generosity.

Even when the world feels heavy and expensive, we can choose softness, presence, beauty, connection, imagination, and generosity.

Not to bypass the world’s pain.
But to expand our capacity to respond to it.

Kindness is not naïve.
Kindness is world-building.

Happy World Kindness Week 2025.
May we fund our inner worlds first so the outer world can benefit.

With possible insurance updates on the horizon next year, now is a good time to start thinking about your care. Often when we think about preparing, getting things done or meeting a deadline, we are doing so under the ‘Threat Drive.” Planning calmly, intentionally, and without fear allows you to operate in the “Achievement and Soothing Drives.”

Think about it this way, aren’t you tired of delivering your best under threat or duress? Why must we be threatened into success and consistency? Why do you have to be in grave pain, dysfunction and suffering before ‘you’ come see about ‘you’?

This is what I’m trying to convey when I say you have time to make small, compassionate choices that supports your continuity care.

Here are a few ways to prepare:
🗣️ If you’re in therapy now, at your next session make it a priority to talk about your care should your coverage change.

🗓️ If you’re not in therapy, book your appointment now. Make full use of your remaining 2025 benefits.

📋Current and new clients: start compiling your best self-regulation tools, tips, skills, strategies and ‘ah-ha’ moments. In my practice, we call this our ‘cheat sheet’ or ‘one-sheeter’.

📨Therapist & Client Summary: The therapist and client write individual letters sharing overall experiences, main ideas and successes from the past 2-3 months. Then, in session exchange letters. It’s not appropriate for all therapist/client relationships; however, it’s a powerful tool to help refine your next steps should you have to pause your therapy.

💵Ask your therapist about self-pay or sliding scale options

Preparing ahead is a form of self-kindness. It says, “I’m looking out for my future self.” Even if things change, your care, your healing, and your connection to support can continue in meaningful ways.