Empowering You to Improve Your Mental Health with Licensed Professional Counselor Tara Lowry
Season 2 Episode 3
In Episode 3, Caroline sits down with Tara Lowry, a licensed counselor and specialist in structural family therapy and family systems. Tara integrates attachment theories into her practice to help clients understand how early family dynamics shape their relationships. She provides trauma-informed care, using internal family systems to support emotional regulation and personal growth, and is passionate about helping clients build coping strategies and transform their lives. Caroline and Tara discuss valuable tools for emotional regulation, coping strategies, and understanding the impact of family dynamics on relationships. You will find encouragement and practical insights to support your mental health, empowering you to navigate challenges with greater resilience and self-awareness with hope for personal transformation and healing from the inside out.
You’ll Learn:
Tara's testimony and journey to becoming a counselor and how she stays motivated when hearing difficult things.
Practical tips to combat feelings of anxiety and overwhelm.
3 action steps to deepen your relationship with God and improve your well-being.
Key Takeaways:
The more you know God in yourself, the more you can give yourself away in a vulnerable and authentic way to others.
Anxiety is just feedback from our bodies and nervous systems about how we are doing and what we need in our lives. Uncomfortable emotions give us information.
Learning to embrace the gifts of our limits and capacity by removing our distractions and remembering that God is limitless and we are limited.
Scriptures Mentioned:
Psalm 37:7: “Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him.”
Proverbs 13:12: "Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life."
2 Corinthians 12:9-10: “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
Show Notes:
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life