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The Art of Saying No: Empowering Your Mental Health
In a world that often celebrates the hustle and the endless to-do lists, saying "no" can feel like a radical act. Yet, it's an essential skill for maintaining mental wellness. Whether it's turning down extra work tasks, declining invitations, or simply setting...
Boundaries in Relationships: How to Support Your Mental Health
Navigating relationships is no easy feat. Whether it's with a partner, family member, or friend, maintaining a healthy relationship requires clear communication and mutual respect. One of the cornerstones of any healthy relationship is setting and respecting...
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
By Nicolette Cheff, LMSW Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is an approach widely used in schools to foster positive behavior and create a supportive learning environment. PBIS focuses on teaching and reinforcing desired behaviors rather than solely...
Strategies to Avoid Burnout
By Kelly Rad, LLMSW Burnout can happen to anyone. The word “burnout” was initially associated with being overworked and overstressed at work. As a therapist, I'm seeing a lot of clients that are struggling with burnout in various aspects of their lives not just...
Tame Anxiety With 4-7-8 Breathing By Kelly Rad, LLMSW
Anxiety is a beast. It complicates even the simplest of tasks. Having said that, anxiety wants our bodies to keep up with our racing minds, and as a result, our bodies can be in “go mode.” Anxiety wants us to overthink, over-plan, overachieve, overdo, over-worry, and...
10 Mental Grounding Strategies to Ease Stress & Anxiety
We all struggle with stress and anxiety from time to time. Many of us feel symptoms in our bodies as well. When stress and anxiety pile up, the way we cope can have an impact on the way we feel physically, as well as our level of functioning in day-to-day tasks or...
Anxiety and Meditation Pt. 2
By Tom Sutherland, MA, LPC, NCC This is a simple form of meditation that anyone can do: 1. Find a location that is safe and appropriate for this exercise. It will help if the environmental distractions are minimized. 2. Sit upright but keep your posture comfortable....
Anxiety and Meditation
By Tom Sutherland, MA, LPC, NCC I often bring up meditation to clients as a technique to help with anxiety management. Only a small percentage, though, report giving it a good shot, and fewer still practice it with any regularity. I’m guilty of this, myself. But for...
On Being Happy
Happiness, Inside look you must. Being Happy Happiness is an inside job, and, for many, it is a “subjective feeling of well-being.” Subjective feelings are inside creations. Since each thought you have produces electromagnetic and chemical signals in your body,...
I’m a Psychiatrist, and Women Aren’t Being Honest About Their Sex Lives
Mental health struggles can get in the way of your ability to orgasm — and you deserve to get that sorted out. "I have never told anyone that before." I hear this often in my office as a psychiatrist. Talking to me, my patients are often more vulnerable than they have...
When Hope is Hard to Find
By: Gina Shuster, LMSW Someone you love has died and you are changed. Your life has been altered in ways that you couldn’t have anticipated. In a single breath, life shifted and the person who was your present and your future suddenly became your past. This reality is...
Children and Exposure to Terror: The 3 Cs of Coping
This blog was jointly written by “The Older Dad,” Dr. Kevin D. Arnold, and by Ms. Theresa Gaser, MSSA, LISW-S of Trinity Family Counseling, Westerville, Ohio According to the VA, children who are exposed to higher amounts of TV coverage of a disaster develop more...
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