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Teaching Resilience: Empowering Young Minds
Learn effective strategies for teaching resilience to young children and empowering them to overcome challenges. Understanding Resilience in Children Resilience is the ability to bounce back from adversity and overcome challenges. It is an essential skill for...
Breaking the Cycle: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression
Discover how Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can help break the cycle of depression and improve mental health. Understanding Depression and its Impact Depression is a mental health condition that affects millions of people worldwide. It is characterized by...
What to do when someone is suicidal.
*** TRIGGER WARNING, DISCUSSES SUICIDE*** The short of it is, my brother has always struggled with depression. Some times are easier to navigate than others. We've always been just a little worried about him, but never to the point that we were worried for his life....
What is talk therapy?
About a year after my mother passed, I was noticing more and more how my father was self-destructing. He was not eating well, wasn't working out, would avoid social gatherings, and would just hide from the world. Having just been through therapy to address my own...
How To Deal With A Pandemic That Won’t End
Early March 2020. We all know where we then. At home. We all remember how we felt. Uneasy, nervous, even scared. And here we are now. Still sending our kids to school with masks on. Will this pandemic ever end??? The truth is that pandemics always end. If you want...
How To Deal With A Political Breakup
Family gatherings can be crazy. There are a lot of people and a lot of opinions. Usually, to keep the peace, while we wait for my Aunt June's roast to be done and keep my mischievous niece Cindy from running away with the blueberry pie, we avoid topics like politics...
Anxiety & Depression
Learn more about anxiety and depression.
5 Tips to Talking to Your Kids About Going Back to School
These pasts months have been challenging to say the least, and the upcoming school year will be filled with many new challenges. The first challenge of them, preparing your child to go back. What do you say? How do you keep them safe if they are going to...
4 Ways to Stay Mentally Strong During Coronavirus
As we head into the sixth month of Coronavirus, you may be feeling that extra tinge of stress and mental fatigue. With the loss of all normalcy and the recognition that this is our new normal, it can be very tough. We hoped the epidemic would be over by now, but it is...
5 Things to Know About Grief Counseling
Grief is an inevitable part of life, whether it be a loss of a job, loss of normalcy, or the loss of a close person in your life. The situation is challenging, to say the least. There is no real way to prepare for grieving or to know exactly how it will affect you. ...
5 Ways to Copy with Coronavirus Grief
Coronavirus has affected every aspect of our lives, from our jobs to the food we put on the table. You’ve lost the normalities of your daily life and, therefore, the outlets that bring you joy and structure. The virus has changed the way you interact with people, feed...
5 Things to Know About Angry Depression
Angry depression is not a certain type of depression but rather a descriptor of a form of depression. Angry depression is when your depression manifests through angry outbursts. Your depression takes your emotions to another level. When you may have otherwise reacted...
Adventure Therapy vs Wilderness Therapy
Adventure therapy and wilderness therapy are often confused with one another. We are here to break down the differences to help you figure out which may be right for you, if other therapies have not worked for you. Similarities 1. They both take place outdoors...
5 Things to Know About Adventure Therapy
Adventure therapy is a great, alternative therapy for young adults who have not yet found success in other forms of therapy. It combines challenges with typical camping activities to build grit, confidence, and emotional skills. 1. What is adventure therapy?...
5 Things to Know About Outdoor Therapy
Outdoor therapy is a great alternative for young adults when other therapies have not worked. Outdoor therapy is focused on the daily activities of living out in the wild and in doing these daily activities, strengthen the confidence, resiliency, and copy abilities of...
3 Things to Know to Start Healing Your Mind with Food
Generations before us always reached out to the garden to heal ailments of the mind and the body. Food was used as medicine. Over time, with the development of prescription and vitamin supplements, we have lost touch with the healing power of food. When you...
Anger & Grief
Learn more about anger management and dealing with grief.
6 More Reasons Why Everyone Can Benefit from Therapy
Therapy has a stigma that it is only for those who have a mental illness. However, therapy is really for everyone. It is great for those who have a mental illness and for those who do not. That's the great thing about therapy, it is the universal helper....
What to Know for Your First Therapy Session
Making the step to get therapy is a big one. You've noticed you need help with your addiction, grief, depression, or maybe you just want to unlock your full potential as a person. You've researched therapists and picked one that makes you feel comfortable. You've made...
How to Start a Meditation Practice with Your Kids
Yay! You are interested in starting meditation with your child! This is so huge. Meditation has been shown to reduce anxiety, reduce depression, increase well-being, increase focus, increase emotional regulation, and lead to better decision-making in children. ...
3 Major Mentality Shifts to Bring More Positivity into Your Life
We've all heard the phrase, "life is what you make it". But what does that really mean? Maybe you've been working your butt off for years but still haven't reached your full personal, financial, or career goals? Maybe they seem even farther away than when you...
4 Types of Love to Help Us Heal
There is no question that love is powerful. It can make us do crazy, amazing, sometimes questionable things. One thing that love can be powerful for is healing. There are many types of love that can help us heal. What are those types of love? 1. Love through...
9 Tips To Help Children Through Their First Divorced Holiday
HOLIDAYS 9 Tips To Help Your Children Through Their First Divorced Holiday Going through a divorce can be rough enough without having to think about co-parenting during the holiday season. Thinking about sending the kids off to your ex's during a pivotal holiday...
11 Ways To Spread Joy This Holiday Season
HOLIDAYS, JOY 11 Ways To Spread Joy This Holiday Season The holidays, specifically this week of the holiday season, many people experience joy, frustration, and even rage as they try to find the perfect gift for their loved ones. But what are gifts really for?...
11 Tips to Emotionally Prepare for the Holiday Season
HOLIDAYS, SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER 11 Tips to Emotionally Prepare for the Holiday Season The holidays can elicit so many emotions for us. Happiness, joy, jubilation...but how about anxiety? stress? overwhelm? sadness? With the holidays can come a lot of...
11 Helpful Quotes for a Better Marriage
Whether you have been married for twenty years or for five minutes, every marriage can use a relationship boost from time to time to remind us of what we have, what we want, and how to nurture it. Because marriage is a long-term commitment, you are bound to go through...
Relationships
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The Benefits of Fatherhood for Kids
The Joys of Fatherhood
Before becoming a parent, your time is your own. Sure you may go to a 9-5 or have a set workout schedule, but you created it. You control your time. It is yours. However, once you become a dad, your kids will require much of your time. Those hours spent playing...
Domestic Abuse: What is it and what can you do?
Domestic abuse. Let us breathe through the air as it just got a lot heavier in here. However, even though the topic is heavy and our breathing may have just gotten a little tighter, there are ways to clear that air so that we may breathe easy again. First, we are...
What is Really Troubling Gen Z: Loneliness
As we continue our conversation about generation Z, we dive deeper into who generation z is and how they operate. Just like every generation before and every one after, each generation has its own weaknesses and strengths. However, we proper understanding and...
5 Myths About Generation Z
Generation Z is defined as those who were born between 1995 and 2015. They are 4 to 24 years old and make up roughly 25% of the population. For a generation that cannot remember a time without smartphones, there are many misconceptions out there about generation Z....
6 Ways to Lose Entitlement
One of the best ways to enjoy a happier, more fulfilling life is by losing our sense of entitlement. We all want something from someone else at some point. We are all trying to fight for one thing or another. Each of us believes that as far as our happiness is on the...
Like the Alphabet, I Comes Before U
We have all come across one person or another that struggles with entitlement. They feel that they are entitled to whatever it is they want. They think they deserve it all now. This can mean difficult relationships, a myriad of disappointments, and a lack of...
Top 5 Myths: Therapy
Many people have misconceptions about what therapy is and who it is for. They picture scenes from movies where some stranger talks at them in a dark room as they recline on a leather sofa. The reality is that anyone, everyone can benefit from therapy. Therapists also...
Why Therapy Could Be For You (Even if You Don’t Have a Mental Illness)
Often times when people think of therapy, they think of an intimidating process only for those who struggle with mental illness. The truth is, therapy is good for anyone looking to better themselves and their life. Really, therapy comes in all shapes and sizes for all...
Caregiving & Empty Nesters
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