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Virginia Oman transforms people’s lives through her unique combination of skills as a licensed mental health therapist, life coach, personal trainer and wellness master. She is living proof that her methods work as she has transformed her life from a place of hopelessness and deep despair to not only newfound life, but now living the life of her dreams.
She helps people to be able to do the same thing regardless of whatever challenges they may be facing. Virginia is also a musician of over 15 different instruments and as a trained harp therapist, uses the healing properties of sound to help others.
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6 Essential Lessons from the School of Life
6 Essential Lessons from the School of Life – In this article, 6 Essential Lessons from the School of Life, I share some of the things I wished I had known at age 17-40. Oh, I might have heard some of these pieces of advice along the way, but I certainly did not take many of them seriously, and I paid a major price for that. So this is my attempt to try to make sure my mistakes aren’t made by people of younger ages. If you are now thinking…” Oh, I don’t need to read this”….. I encourage you to think again. We are only given one life, and it is very short. So it’s wise to do what you can to make it easier and more enjoyable along the way. Right?
Is Your Mindset Making You Disabled?
I’m also a Licensed Mental Health Therapist, and over my 30-year career span, I’ve seen the results when a person’s negative mindset is controlling their life. It leads to depression, anxiety, and often a life wasted.
I am physically disabled due to having Multiple Sclerosis, and I know first-hand the reality of being disabled in a world designed for able-bodied people. It can bring plenty of opportunities for feeling frustrated, dismissed, and sad.
The Power of Sound: How to Protect Your Sound Scape
Most of us are aware of protecting our valuable eyesight. We wear sunglasses for solar protection and go to the optometrist yearly. We hear the recommendations to limit the amount of violent images seen every day. By perhaps cutting back on watching the “news”. These things are important and make a definite difference in our overall health. But how often do we pay attention to what we are allowing ourselves to HEAR on a daily basis?
The Happy Habit: Three Simple Practices for a Life of Joy
In this article, I want to give you three tools you can use every day to start this rewiring process in your brain.
The first one is something I actually implemented into my own life and the effects of doing it continuously have been phenomenal. It’s simple to do. It will sound silly and too simplistic but I’m here to say it really works.
Taking Small Steps and Changing My Life for the Better
My name is Virginia Oman and I have secondary-progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS). I was diagnosed back in 1988, and my first symptoms were visual changes, numbness, and loss of balance. Many have described me as a “phoenix in human form, because I have …
DO IT NOW! Messages From the Rocking Chair
We are amazing human beings. We have the power to create the kind of life we want and we have the power to determine how we feel at any moment of every day. That is an amazing amount of power and it is all within us. Yet, how many of us choose to ACT on this and harness this power for their happiness and wellbeing?
“Little t” vs “Big T” Which Trauma is More Toxic?
When most people see the word “trauma” related to mental health, they will either identify with it and want to know more, or they will immediately pass over it thinking that this word doesn’t apply to them. If you are a person in the latter category, I encourage you to continue reading this.
How to Change Your Emotional State in an Instant!
way to instantly change our state toward increased happiness is to change what we focus on. Pay attention to what you’re thinking about and choose wisely. Simply put……garbage in, garbage out. If you focus on thoughts of negativity, research now shows, our brain being so incredibly compliant, …
What the Heck are You Saying to Yourself?!!
As a licensed mental health therapist who has been practicing for over 30 years, I have had ample experience to discern what causes a person to have problematic depression and or anxiety in their life time. What I see the most at the root of many of these symptoms is negative self-statements (self-talk) that are so ingrained and …
The Incredible Power of Finding Your Purpose
We’ve all heard the message so many times recently;” Find your purpose! Find your purpose!” to the point where we almost don’t want to spend any time finding it just to be defiant! Can you relate?
You Are Unstoppable
Have you ever felt hopeless, like all life’s joys were no longer reachable for you? I have. And having climbed my way back out, I am passionate about sharing my message of hope so others don’t have to feel that level of despair that I once did.
Claim Your Golden Ticket!
Can you imagine getting on an airplane to fly to your destination and you find out that the pilot of the plane has not looked at a map or aviation chart and has no plan for how to get there? Wouldn’t that be downright terrifying?
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