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Category: Teens

  • Parental Burnout: What It Is and What We Can Do About It

  • The Five Love Languages: and How to Use Them to Show Love to Your Child, Your Significant Other, and Yourself

    Author Gary Chapman wrote a book called, “The Five Love Languages”, in which he proposes that there are five main categories of how we feel loved: Quality Time, Words of Affirmation, Acts of Service, Physical Touch, and Gifts.  Each of us has one or two of those as primary ways that make us feel loved,…

  • How To Feel Like Yourself [when you don’t]

    Sometimes it’s due to depression, grief, a major life change (moving, changing jobs or schools, family changes), and other times it can be more of an occasional low mood day or week etc that we just don’t feel like ourselves.  Today I’ll provide a few ideas to help you feel more like yourself.  These are…

  • 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…

  • Mental Health Friendly Holiday Gift Ideas

    A little divergent from what therapists usually write about for holiday preparation, today I’m giving gift ideas and associated links* for gifts that are therapeutic in nature and/or are in support of mental health.  I’m in full support of gifting to oneself as well, so hopefully you’ll also find some items on this list to…