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TGIF: How to Handle Back-to-School Anxiety
In this week’s TGIF, Kerry shares TOOLS, GRATITUDE, INNOVATION and FEELS as she answers a reader’s question about supporting their child with back-to-school anxiety.
TGIF: Managing End of Summer Anxiety & Blues
It’s getting colder, summer is over and I’m feeling blue. Did I enjoy summer enough? Did I make it magical enough for my kids? I don’t want warmth and sun to end, I’m afraid of coming colder months. What is this?
TGIF: When Your Truth Hurts Others
This week’s question comes from someone embarking on an exciting new life chapter following divorce, but trying not to carry the emotional fallout into her new season of life.
TGIF: Managing Perinatal or Postpartum Depressive Mood and Anxiety
This week’s question comes from a new mom experiencing perinatal anxiety. Even if you yourself are not pregnant or in the newborn stage, I believe her question and my response can relate to anyone.
TGIF: Coping with a Loved One’s Serious Illness
Life has this uncanny way of throwing curveballs our way when we least expect it. One of the most challenging curveballs is when a beloved family member falls ill. It's like being caught in a whirlwind of emotions, uncertainties, and tough decisions.
TGIF: When Therapy Is Intimidating
Let’s be real- no matter how far mental health destigmatizing has come along, unfortunately there is still a stigma about being “someone who goes to therapy”.
TGIF: Navigating Rejection
I’m really struggling with how to navigate the relationship with my son. He’s seemed to shut me out and I don’t know how to relate. I feel terrified and hurt, afraid I’ll lose him forever. What should I do?
Why Reset Does What Reset Does: TGIF - A June Update from Kerry
Just understanding, at the basic level, how the tenants of rest, breath, connection, movement, and nourishment are vital to our mental health. These 5 pillars are what make Reset, Reset Brain and Body and are everything to how we approach mental health care.
An Open Letter to the Givers
Contributing to burnout, helpers also have a tendency to feel the weight of all the world’s problems. Not just focusing on the things they can control, they see the enormity of pain and hurt in the world, oftentimes feeling the responsibility to fix it all, help everyone, and spend a lot of time in despair and worry.
What If You Stopped Complaining?
It is bigger things like mom guilt, loneliness, and missing friends from home. It’s then even more things like venting or complaining about other people, passing judgment while doing so. With awareness, we realized, we can complain a lot.
A Truth Inside of Us
So much of our lives are lived trying to be human. To fit in, to excel, to get safe, to feel content, to aspire, to inspire, to laugh and be happy, and have a meaningful life.
How to Build Resilience Through a Holistic Mental Health Lens
And co-regulation is developed through cultivating calm. How do you get calm? You do the small things, every day, with extreme regularity that regulate your system.
How to Get Out of Your Own Way
Do you know what you want? Honestly, that’s the first question to ask yourself when you’re feeling stuck.
What do I want and what am I prepared to do to achieve it?
The Process of Getting Into Alignment
And that vulnerability isn’t so much the in-the-moment feeling. Because present moment alignment often feels like a settling of the sand that was previously whipped up in a storm. Alignment is a grounded center from which I can operate most courageously, confidently, creatively, and with calm.
A Word for Your New Year’s
Tonight, I write this not quite remembering what it feels like to feel like myself - it’s been a while since I slept through the night, had the energy to exercise, or had a mind not foggy with sickness, parental overload, and exhaustion.
And yet, in spite of all the mess of this month, I’m really, really, terribly happy.
Fighting Seasonal Affective Disorder
What is SAD?
During the fall months, as summer begins to fade and we move toward the winter months, some people may develop a form of depression called SAD, or Seasonal Affective Disorder.
How Therapy Ultimately Helps the Whole World
I go to therapy for myself and for my community
Some people believe helping themselves - whether it is setting boundaries at work, saying “no” to an event, or seeing a therapist - as doing something “wrong”, indulgence, or even selfish
Slow to Change
Ah, it feels so nourishing to slow down for mindful observation, inner exploration, and taking care of things.
In this season, I’m reminded, once again, how slowing down is the secret to all change.
How Trauma Reveals Our Truth
Big T Trauma is stuff that is simply egregious and tragic: abuse, neglect, death of a caregiver, family conflict, even natural disasters, severe medical events, and intergenerational trauma caused from oppression, genocide, or war. Little t traumas are actually quite universal in nature. These are the subtle, chronic events from bullying from peers, hostile work environments, microagressions, conditional love and criticism.
Coping with Transitions
I think a lot of people already know this statistic, but let’s talk about it anyhow. What, traditionally, are the top five most stressful times in someone’s life?
Death of a loved one.
Divorce.
Moving.
Major illness or injury.
Job loss.