Finding A Therapist: What to Expect and How to Spot Red Flags
Finding a therapist can be daunting, but understanding red flags and ethical expectations empowers you to choose a safe and beneficial experience. Learn what to expect regarding boundaries, communication, and self-disclosure.
Decoding Attachment Styles: A Guide to Understanding and Transforming Relationships
Unlock the secrets of Attachment Styles for healthier relationships! Learn about Secure, Avoidant, Anxious, and Disorganized attachments. Discover actionable steps to transform patterns.
Holiday Blues
The holidays often bring more stress than cheer. Extra responsibilities, social media pressures, and family issues can trigger what's known as the holiday blues. By identifying your personal triggers, creating new traditions, practicing self-care, and considering therapy, you can manage the holiday blues and regain your festive spirit. This blog covers common holiday stressors and actionable ways to prioritize your mental health.
Unhealthy Beginnings: An Indigenous Lived Experience
An exploration of the complex Native American perspective on Thanksgiving, high rates of adversity/trauma due to history, and pathway to healing.
Trust Your Gut: It’s More Than a Feeling
Unlock mental wellness through your second brain: Explore the gut-brain connection and how probiotics, fiber-rich foods, and a holistic diet can enhance mental health. Learn the science behind it!
A Journey of Healing: Recovering from Domestic Violence Through Therapy
Domestic partner violence leaves unseen wounds; therapy helps survivors process trauma, challenge beliefs, confront avoidance, and develop healthy coping mechanisms.
How We Discuss Suicide: The Impact of Language
In this thought-provoking blog, we delve into the critical importance of reevaluating our language when discussing suicide. Drawing inspiration from an unforgettable moment in 'The Office,' we highlight how seemingly harmless phrases can unintentionally perpetuate stigma. Join us in this journey to transform our words and create a more compassionate approach to suicide prevention during Suicide Prevention Month.
Mothering
If I open the floodgates to write about motherhood, I am afraid I will be consumed. That’s probably a reasonable fear. Motherhood is all-consuming: Thoughts, emotions, time, priorities, futures, finances, personal space, crunchy floors, and spills on the furniture. These waters of motherhood are nourishing and crushing and life-giving and knock-you-off-of-your-feet powerful. But what I fear the most about consumption is that somewhere swimming in the deep love and longing for my children, in the gratitude for our connection to each other that can never be replicated, is grief and loneliness infused in the water.