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Category: Depression

  • How To Manage The Holidays (& maybe even enjoy them)

    The holiday season is upon us (in case you hadn’t noticed).  While the holidays can be exciting, memorable, and fun, they also can be a challenging time navigating family members, finances, overwhelm, depression, the political climate, and/or grief and loss, to name a few.  I thought I would pass along some holiday tips and tools to help make the…

  • Are Smartphones and Social Media Ruining Our Teenagers’ Mental Health?

    My short answers to this question are “sort of” and “not exactly”… I recently read the book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, it  brought about a lot of feelings of anxiety!  It seems apparent that smartphones and social media have impacted adolescent mental…

  • What the movie Inside Out 2 got right about feelings….

    If you haven’t seen the Disney Pixar movie, Inside Out 2, I definitely recommend it!  At the time of this writing, it is still in theaters, but I imagine it’ll be for rent or purchase soon as well.  I was impressed with the way the movie presented or explained a lot of concepts grounded in…

  • Freedom from Our Stressful Thoughts – Finding Flexibility in our Anxious Minds

    I had the wonderful ‘bucket list’ opportunity to attend the School for The Work with Byron Katie last year.  Byron Katie has created a process that helps us question our own stressful thoughts.  The school/ conference was chock full of good information and experiential learning, and I thought I would try to organize my experience…

  • Do You Get Depressed During Fall And Winter Months?

    Do you wonder whether you have, or someone you love has, Seasonal Affective Disorder/ Seasonal Depression (SAD)?*  Today’s blog entry will cover symptoms, background theories on what may cause seasonal depression, and some things to do that can help with SAD. WHAT IS SEASONAL DEPRESSION/ SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER (SAD)? Often tending to be most severe…

  • Pet Loss

    The death of a beloved pet is something we will generally experience several times within our lifetimes, as pets, of course, have shorter lifespans than humans.  One of the things that can be so difficult about the death of a pet is that society doesn’t always know what to make of pet loss, and/or we…