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Gaslighting: How do I know if it's happening to me and what do I do?
Have you ever been in this type of situation:
A person is telling you things that do not match their behaviors/actions or factual reality.
How to Address Your Burnout
Last week I met with my therapist and realized I could finally name my feelings: I was burned out.
I explained my emotional roller coaster to her through tears and she so aptly and with much grace called me out.
3 Ways to Lessen the Holiday Stress
As we near the holidays and some of us are experiencing more stress from the expectations than the joys of the season, I wanted to point out a few more resources that might help you through this time.
What to do if I am experiencing PTSD
We often hear the term post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the context of war and Veterans. However, PTSD can affect any person who has witnessed or experienced traumatic events or any person who has learned about someone close to them who has experienced traumatic events.
Is My Teen Just Being a Teen?
Is my teenager just pushing away (a natural process) or is it a cry for help? Is my teenager acting this way because they are ___ age or is this not typical behavior for their age?
How to Know if Your Child Would Benefit From Mental Health Services
One of the hardest elements of working with children and young adults for me is figuring out whether their behavior is indicative of being a certain age or if it’s something more.
Four Ways to Use Technology to Help Build Connections with Others and Ourselves
You are probably familiar with how technology is hurting our physical and mental health but the topic around how technology can support our well-being is less talked about.
A Guide to Self-Care When You Are Feeling Unmotivated
As I’ve recently mentioned, it can be tough to get a grip on life. And taking care of our mental health can be a challenge in and of itself. When I’m going through low periods, I don’t feel motivated to do my meditation practice. I know it would help me but I can’t get myself to do it. I feel too tired, too checked out.
How to Take Care of Your Mental Health
I’ve been having a really tough time getting a grasp on my life lately. Things seem to be moving too quickly and I can’t find enough energy to keep up with it all.
How Self-Expression Through Art Benefits Mental Health
Like we mentioned in a previous blog that shared 5 Ways the Performing Arts Benefit Mental Health, the performing arts have been scientifically proven to help kids (and adults) overcome anxiety, depression, and offer emotional release.
How to Address Your Inner Critic with Self-Compassion and Mindfulness
I don’t know about you, but I still tend to beat myself up pretty hard for the mistakes that I make. I’m definitely better than I used to be. My self-compassion practice is working, that’s for sure.
How to Give Feedback to Co-Workers
I imagine that in most workplace environments, we primarily encounter two types of scenarios: our co-worker did something that is clearly against the rules OR they did something that you feel you have a better way of doing.
How to Get Your Kids to Talk to You
To have meaningful relationships, we need to have meaningful conversations. So pick a few questions you like to ask after school, at dinner, or while hanging out and kickstart meaningful conversation and grow deeper connections.
Dealing with Stressful Times
If you’ve recently reached out to someone for support and received a response along the veins of the second post above, first acknowledge the fact that you were brave to reach out, go you! You took a risk and it just didn’t pay off this time. That is okay.
How to Build Emotional Intelligence
In today’s society it can be a challenge to slow down. With this challenge comes disconnection from our feelings. Sometimes days, weeks, even months go by without us asking ourselves, “what am I feeling?”, “why am I reacting this way?” or “what’s going on here?”.
How to Stay Calm when Busy
Whenever a new school year starts, or a new job starts, or a major event occurs in my life, I get wrapped up in performing the juggling act and I sideline things “that can wait.” Like... my meditation practice.
How Pollution Impacts our Mental Health
It’s been known for quite some time that polluted air leads to heart and lung problems, and now we are becoming aware that air pollution also has a negative effect on our brains.
Mental Health Disorders and Yoga
This study aims to determine if yoga is beneficial as a treatment for individuals with mental health disorders. This research explores different studies that have been done involving yoga with anxiety, depression, PTSD and schizophrenia.
How to Overcome Negative Thoughts
Remember the last time you couldn’t get away from a storm of negative thoughts? The time when your brain was stuck in the same dark place, refusing to budge and move on to a different topic?
How to Build Self-Confidence
“What do I want?”
This was the question that I landed on after a long-winded (and not fully formed) internal dialogue I had with myself about how life is unfair, how living intentionally is one way of trying to even that out, and how to live intentionally you need awareness about yourself, your situation, your needs, your wants.