Elizabeth Harvey Abrams
Exploring nature's mental health benefits
I appreciated the chance to contribute this article to the Las Cruces Bulletin, highlighting ways to connect with nature in support of...
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Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Supporting Holistic Wellness
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Elizabeth Harvey Abrams
- May 31
- 2 min
The Power of Story for Healing
Envisioning the future you want and can see yourself living has so much power in helping you get there.
Elizabeth Harvey Abrams
- Mar 3
- 2 min
Mini-Review: Our Wild Calling
Our Wild Calling: How connecting with animals can transform our lives and save theirs by Richard Louv is a masterful multi-disciplinary book
Elizabeth Harvey Abrams
- Feb 25
- 1 min
Mini-Review: Radical Acceptance
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach, PhD is a guidebook for shedding shame and self-criticism.
Elizabeth Harvey Abrams
- Feb 19
- 2 min
Mini-Review: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté, MD, is an essential read on addiction.
Elizabeth Harvey Abrams
- Feb 10
- 2 min
Mini-Review: The Empath's Survival Guide
What does it mean to be an empath? Judith Orloff, MD describes in this book that it goes beyond having empathy...
Elizabeth Harvey Abrams
- Feb 2
- 2 min
Three Grief Books
This is a brief reference guide to three books I turn to as resources for bereaved clients and those supporting grieving loved ones.
Elizabeth Harvey Abrams
- Jan 28
- 2 min
Mini-Review: Trauma and Recovery
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman, MD has become a core work in trauma
Elizabeth Harvey Abrams
- Jan 15
- 2 min
Mini-Review: The Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, MD, is a book I often refer to....
Elizabeth Harvey Abrams
- Oct 5, 2021
- 3 min
Practice for Nature Connection, Creativity, and Community
This is a practice focused on cultivating a relationship of reciprocal healing with nature through connection, creativity, and community.
Elizabeth Harvey Abrams
- Oct 5, 2021
- 2 min
Resources for Highly Sensitive People
Being a highly sensitive person or empath can mean that you take in more than the average person from your surroundings and other people.
Elizabeth Harvey Abrams
- Oct 1, 2021
- 1 min
Leaves On a Stream Visualization Exercise
This guided visualization is called Leaves on a Stream, a cognitive defusion exercise that supports the ability to observe thoughts.
Elizabeth Harvey Abrams
- Sep 30, 2021
- 3 min
Nature Object Meditation
This is a meditation for connecting with and reflecting on a nature object. It can be any object you’ve found in nature.
Elizabeth Harvey Abrams
- Mar 25, 2021
- 2 min
Song for Spring
I recently made an intentional journey into a canyon to release the old and welcome the new for the change of season into spring. I spent...
Elizabeth Harvey Abrams
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
The Healing Work of Integration
The work of integration may occur as we walk the path of grief, heal from trauma, or make sense of the multiple identities we’ve embraced on