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23 Ways To Improve Your Mental Health
Mental health is mental well-being that contributes to our quality of life. We can improve our mental health through self-care, prioritizing activities that help us increase our energy and decrease stress. Here are 23 ways to improve your mental health: 1. ...
What To Do When You’re Frustrated
We can get frustrated with ourselves or others from stress or unmet expectations, and when it’s lingers, it can affect our mental health. We may feel angry, anxious, irritable, overwhelmed, or annoyed. We might avoid those who frustrate us, have changes in appetite...
How Do You Name Your Emotions?
How Do You Name Your Emotions? Emotional granularity refers to the ability to accurately describe one's emotions, which means having the vocabulary to name feelings. A better ability to name our emotions generally means better coping and mental health. Other words...
How To Help Someone With Depression
Feelings of sadness and irritability, loss of energy, lack of focus, changes in sleeping, appetite, and/or hygiene, and loss of interest in what they used to enjoy can indicate depression. If these factors persist longer than two weeks and affect daily life in a...
How To Help My Kid With ADHD
ADHD can involve challenges with executive function: planning, organizing, staying focused, and finished tasks. As the parent, you can help your child gain these skills so you can both feel less overwhelmed, frustrated, exhausted, and angry and more in control....
How To Cope With Addiction
When we first turn to an addictive substance or behavior, they may give us temporary relief from physical or emotional pain and/or stress. But once we form a habit over time, the addiction harms us. We crave the substance or behavior, which can include drugs,...
How To Set Boundaries
Boundaries put a healthy wall between you and someone who shows toxic behavior. Think of healthy boundaries like a cat’s mentality. Unlike dogs, who are thirsty for affection, cats set their own rules about how they live. Our goals with boundaries are similar: we...
Your Kids CAN Move On From Bullying at School
Without support, school bullying can lead to lifelong struggles with self-esteem, anxiety, and depression. Along with intervention, support through therapy can help kids process the pain from bullying and develop coping strategies to avoid long-term issues. There...
3 Tips for Homework Time If Your Kid Has ADHD
Homework time can be a challenge for any kid. But when staying focused presents an extra hurdle for your kid, homework can become stressful for both of you. Here are three tips to make homework time less stressful and more structured: First, pick a good homework...
Targeted at Work? Therapy Can Help
If work leaves you feeling stressed, anxious, and depressed from false accusations, sabotage, exclusion, and other intimidating, threatening, and demeaning behaviors, you may experience triggering from childhood trauma as part of the workplace abuse. If you felt...
Summer Therapy by Telehealth
Telehealth therapy has gained acceptance since the pandemic and is a great way to make progress on your self-care and mental health during summer months when the routine changes for many of us. Telehealth therapy uses face-to-face telecommunication over the...
Workplace Abuse Can Lead to Trauma
You may feel like nothing you do at work is good enough. You went from a vibrant, confident worker to feeling stressed, anxious, and depressed. False accusations, sabotage, exclusion, and other intimidating, threatening, and demeaning behaviors at work from...
EMDR Retreats
Healing from trauma and grief is a process that takes time, but we now know that there are effective treatments that can decrease suffering and allow people to recover much more quickly. EMDR has gained widespread acceptance as one of these effective treatments...
Recovery from Addiction
Addiction gets a bad rap but most of us fall into some type of addictive behavior over the course of our life. We can become addicted to a substance such as alcohol, marijuana, caffeine or even sugar. We can also develop what’s called a “process addiction” when...
Wellness for First Responders
First responders, including police officers, firefighters, EMTs, nurses and doctors, face unique challenges on the job that can cause significant job-related stress. They may be exposed to repeated critical incidents, long and non-traditional working hours, threats...
Healthy Communication for Couples
How many of us attended the class on how to communicate well with a romantic partner? I’m guessing the answer is close to none of us. It can be extremely difficult to learn to communicate openly, honestly, and kindly with a partner. We all bring a personal history...
EMDR and Anger Management
Did you know that EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) can help people deal with bottled up anger? When we have trouble managing our angry feelings, it’s often because we are holding onto something that made us angry when we were kids. Kids are too...