Keeping the Spark Alive During Quarantine
One thing remains clear: this is a period where navigating relationships is key; moreover, this is a period to strengthen valued...
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How To: Use DBT Skill: DEAR MAN to Communicate Effectively
DBT Skill: DEAR MAN teaches how to communicate effectively. These skills may be used to communicate wants/needs, as well as set...
How to: Effectively handle crisis situations using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based practice which uses a holistic mind-body approach to treatment. It encompasses...
How to Love Yourself (when struggling with mental illness)
Struggling with mental illness can be a destructive process. We pick ourselves apart, judge ourselves, over-analyze every move we make...
8 Strategies to Show Yourself Some Love: Learning the Art of Self-Care as a Teenager
Sometimes, however, life causes us to have larger holes than normal. Maybe the holes in our bucket come from more significant stress or...
“It’s Not If, It’s When” – Managing Anxiety for Parents of Kids with Chronic Illnesses
You’re not losing sleep about if all the pillows are lined up straight downstairs on the couch. You’re not worried about catching a life...
Kindness Always Wins
Do Things For People Not Because of Who They Are or What They Do In Return, But Because of Who You Are – Harold S. Kushner Being kind not...
The Gradual Normalization of Mental Health
Mental health is an increasingly relevant topic. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), one in five American adults...
Pay Attention To Me…. Also, Give Me Space!
What are the Nine Emotional Needs? A quick review, the nine emotional needs are: security, volition, attention, emotional connection,...
You’ve Got This: Fulfilling Your Unsatisfied Emotional Needs
The nine emotional needs are: security, volition, attention, emotional connection, connection to the community, privacy, a sense of...
When the Outside Doesn’t Match the Inside: Bipolar Disorder
The Bipolar High! During those highs, you have so much energy. Even with little to no sleep, you feel like you can tackle anything and...
Cinema Therapy
What is Cinema Therapy? “Cinema therapy” is real and is sometimes prescribed by therapists. However, it’s usually a self-administered...
When the Outside Doesn’t Match the Inside: Part Two
You think to yourself – “why bother? Nobody is going to notice if I miss work, anyway.” You struggle with feeling like maybe you don’t...
5 Things to Consider When Assessing Your Self-Care
Physical Self-Care Of course, physical self-care is vital to over health and wellbeing. When we are not eating healthy foods or taking...
How to Support Someone Going through An Emotionally Difficult Time – Part One
Tea and Honey Which one do you relate the most to? For me, it fluctuates. Sometimes I’m piglet, being the person offering the support....
What do Pulling Weeds and Therapy have in Common?
3 three different types of weeds I noticed were the ones that: Came right up Are so deep that the root is left behind when tugged on. Are...
How to Incorporate Optimism: Step 1
“[…] Pessimists can learn the skills of optimism and permanently improve the quality of their lives.” – Martin Seligman. Ph.D. Dr....
When the Outside Doesn’t Match the Inside: Part One
Persistent Depressive Disorder You’re the one always smiling and laughing to prove that you’re having fun in the social setting that you...
The Cycle of Anger
The Cycle The first event that occurs during the cycle of anger is the triggering event. This is an occurrence that triggers an...
From Roommates to Reconnection
“We have different lives, like passing ships.” “It’s like we’re not even married anymore; we’re just roommates.” I hear these difficult...
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