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  • 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…

  • How To Help Someone In [a more acute] Need:  Death, Hospital, Mental Health Intensive Treatment

    We tend to have some cultural norms around things like if someone was in the hospital or had a family member die, but sometimes we get busy and overwhelmed and don’t know what to do or say.  Being that sometimes acute situations/ major transitions are what brings someone into psychotherapy, I’ve heard a lot about…

  • 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…

  • Tips On Improving Your Sleep

    Improving your sleep can positively impact your mental health and well-being.  Sleep is how we recharge, integrate the day’s learnings, and repair on a cellular level.  Many Americans have difficulty getting ‘enough’ hours of sleep per night.  Those of you whom are parents of teenagers, it’s especially true that many teenagers are not getting their…

  • Habits: Tips and Tricks for Building and Maintaining Habits Important to You

    Want to change your eating habits, increase exercise, quit or decrease something (smoking, alcohol), stop procrastinating, or get more work done?  Just in time for the start of 2024 – a ‘fresh start’ time to begin a new habit – I’ve compiled some tips to help start and maintain good habits. Timing May Matter/ “Fresh…

  • 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…