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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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

By Thomas Sutherland, MA, LPC, NCC Many of us want to reduce anxiety. Mindfulness techniques, such as meditation or other attention-focusing exercises, can be helpful. Practicing healthy self-talk is another. But it’s more than just positive thinking. Let’s look at...

By Nichole Wright, MA, LPC According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), "about 50 million adults have chronic pain". Chronic pain can be the result of many types of conditions and illnesses. In this article, I will focus specifically on migraine headaches....

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — As we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Americans are observing it by remembering where they were and who they were with. A Kalamazoo man with New York roots decided to make sure his brethren in the Big Apple were not alone. Though time...

Katherine A Martin, M.A., L.P.C. I’ve been asked to share for the month of August and it only took me a moment to decide what I would be interested in sharing, as a Cognitive Behavior Therapist of sixteen years, it’s all about the thought for me. I love collecting...

Life is Uncertain Have things changed in your life since you were a youngster? Of course, they have! We are not brand new anymore. We are a little used, and some of us more than others. We have been around the block a few times. What did you do to get here at this...

"Study me as much as you like; you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see." A quote from the poet and mystic Rumi. The...

I strolled out of work last March. I cannot remember the date, but that is not important.  It was my last physical night at the building that I had traveled in and out of for the past several years. The structure that enclosed my office space which I serviced my...