Category: Stress
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How To Be Less Irritated With Your Teenager
Teenagers can be irritating. That may be the understatement of the century. It will come as no surprise that teenagers will tell you that parents can be irritating too! (Who?, What?, Me???…. Irritating???) Do you find yourself irritated and/or angry with your teenager for the things they do, things they don’t do, and the multitude…
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DIY Self-Care for Depression
I recently read an article from Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way Foundation” (an organization she created to address mental health and wellness in younger generations) and a take away was that in this connected world it’s more likely that a teenager may be more likely to reach out to a friend versus their parent or…
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When Anxiety Attacks
The problem with writing a blog entry on anxiety is that there will always be more to say. How can I possibly cover everything that’s important to say? I can’t, of course, and, while that honestly caused me some initial stuckness, I decided it might be most helpful to focus on how to recognize when…
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The Main Thing
Two Summers during my college years, I worked as a lifeguard on Long Beach Island, New Jersey. Before I make it sound too exciting, I’ll clarify that it was lifeguarding at an indoor pool there on the island. No sharks, no dramatic saves to warrant front page news – no lives lost though either, which of…
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Tips for Managing (and Enjoying) the Holidays
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, and/or loved ones lost over the years, to name a few. I thought I would pass along some holiday tips and tools to help make the holidays…
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Top 10 Stress Management Tips
Sue’s Top Ten: Fave Suggestions for Stress Management Mindfulness/ Meditation – Mindfulness, more or less, is staying with the present moment as much as possible. Much of our stress and anxiety comes from either anticipating things that may or may not happen in the future (be it near or distant future), or things that happened in the past.…
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