Women Shaping the Mental Health Industry
In today's ever-evolving landscape of mental health awareness and treatment, women have emerged as pivotal figures, shaping the field in profound ways.
Elements of Wellbeing: PIESSS
New year, new you? Looking to make improvements in your life, obtain a new level of success, and feel more content about the way you spend your time? It’s easy to feel the pressure to start a new page of your story with the beginning of a new year. No matter what your goal may be, self-reflection to understand the current condition of your mental well being is crucial to avoid overexertion and burnout. Overall well being can be analyzed through the lens of six categories that influence the way we feel, think and behave. Like pieces of a pie, each category is crucial to make up a balanced and whole foundation for positive mental health. Let’s explore these elements with the acronym, PIESSS.
Not Feeling Merry and Bright During the Winter Season? Lessons Learned From Nature
Daylight wanes, trees shed leaves, animals prepare for hibernation. While nature slows to rest, many of us bustle to meet deadlines and plan festivities making it a hectic holiday season. While winter activities with family and friends bring joy to many, others may experience emotions of tranquility, introspection or even a bit of melancholy. Do you find it difficult to keep up with the expectation of jubilation during a naturally more muted time of year?
Nurturing Healthy Connections: A Guide to Setting and Accepting Boundaries with Family
For many, family is the cornerstone of their lives, providing love, support, and a sense of belonging. However, even within these close relationships, it's crucial to establish and respect boundaries to foster healthy dynamics. Setting and accepting boundaries with family members can be a challenging but important step toward building stronger, more sustainable connections.
Trauma: What Is It Really? How To Process and Heal
What exactly does it mean to process trauma? It’s such an amorphous idea. It’s really just integrating our experiences into our being. Just like we chew up and digest our food so that the vital parts can become part of our bodies, so must our emotions be processed and integrated into our souls. We have to feel them, talk about them, do something with them.
Are ADHD Diagnoses Increasing with Each School Year?
Have you ever been curious why there seems to be a deluge of ADHD diagnoses during the months of September and October? Or, perhaps, possibly, you’re the parent or caretaker of a child whose teacher – or school counselor – recently recommended getting your child tested for ADHD during parent-teacher conferences? It’s not just a myth. Recent research shows us that there is, in fact, an uptick in ADHD diagnoses among U.S. Schoolchildren.
Seasonal Mood Changes and Seasonal Affective Disorder
Time to say goodbye to the salad days of summer. Fall is nearly here. For some people, curling up with a hot cup of tea – or, let’s be real, pumpkin spice latte – wearing knit/wool sweaters, and the dreary-yet-vibrant punch of orange and yellow hues strewn throughout the leaves are a feeling of comfort, warmth. For others, it’s the exact opposite: the mournful tones of autumn shout through the branches, haunting us, because they signal what we dread all year…the fall and winter months, bouts of melancholy and infinite sadness.
Why Mornings Matter
Mornings are not one-size-fits-all. Mozart would start his day with composing, Benjamin Franklin would study one of thirteen virtues (on rotation), Jane Austen would play the piano. There are hundreds of ways to start the day, none of which are the one “right" way.
9 Tips for Self-Acceptance
Self-acceptance is a skill. It takes practice and courage to look at both the positive and negative, and to learn to receive, to trust, to love, and to accept all aspects of ourselves, our abilities and limitations, our strengths and weaknesses, our successes and mistakes.
9 Healthy Habits for Positive Mental Health
Just as we learned as kids the basics of preventing the common cold, (wash your hands often, avoid touching your face, keep your distance from those who are sick, etc.) there are a few habits that we can implement to improve our mental health and prevent serious illness.