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The Symptoms and Experience of Anxiety
If you're experiencing symptoms of anxiety, you're not alone. Anxiety affects millions of people around the world. However, there are holistic approaches you can take to manage and alleviate anxiety symptoms. By adopting a holistic approach to addressing your anxiety, you can cultivate a greater sense of calm, balance, and overall wellness. Let’s explore in more detail.
How to Stop Overthinking: 10 Ways to Decrease the Habit
Overthinking can be a major obstacle to productivity, creativity, and overall happiness. It can lead to feelings of anxiety, self-doubt, and indecisiveness. In this blog post, we'll explore practical tips for overcoming it. By learning to recognize and manage your overthinking tendencies, you can improve your mental health and gain more control over your life. Don't let overthinking hold you back any longer - read on to learn how to break free from this harmful habit.
How to Create a Life Worth Living: Part 2
Discover how to create a life worth living with our latest blog post. We delve into the key ingredients that make up a fulfilling life and explore practical strategies for achieving your goals. From setting intentions to cultivating meaningful relationships, our holistic approach to living will inspire you to take action and lead a purposeful life. Read on to find out more.
Nurturing Holistic Family Connections
In the tapestry of our lives, family is often the most intricate and profound thread. As we navigate the complexities of relationships, it becomes crucial to approach family dynamics with a holistic mindset, acknowledging the interconnectedness of physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. In this blog post, we explore how a therapeutic approach can nurture holistic family connections, fostering a harmonious environment where individuals can thrive.
Validation in Relationships
Validation does not always (or even usually!) mean saying “You’re right” or “I’m sorry.” In conflict, we often fear that validating the other person is akin to “losing” the argument or giving up. It can actually be quite the opposite. Validation can build compassion, cultivate connection, and lead to strengthened communication.
6 Ways to Stop Overthinking
Exploring 6 ways to stop the overthinking spiral. Have you ever got lost in your thoughts and felt like you were spiraling down a rabbit hole? Well, if so, you are not alone. Most of us have experienced the struggling of rumination and constant chatter in our minds. Let’s explore how to manage overthinking.
Regulating Big Emotions
Have you ever experienced a time where you were so upset that nothing you seemed to try could work to help calm you down? TIPP is a DBT skill that activates our parasympathetic nervous system to help us rest and slow down by regulating our emotions.
A Path to Relieving Chronic Pain
Holistic psychotherapy offers hope for chronic pain sufferers. This comprehensive approach addresses psychological triggers, stress reduction, coping strategies, and lifestyle factors, leading to lasting relief and improved well-being. If you're living with chronic pain, consider holistic psychotherapy as part of your pain management strategy for a more comprehensive solution.
Attachment Styles & Our Relationships
Attachment styles are patterns of relating to others, primarily formed in early childhood through interactions with caregivers. These styles play a significant role in shaping how individuals approach emotional intimacy and relationships, impacting their trust, vulnerability, and behavior. Working with a licensed mental health professional is a safe and supportive way to address and potentially change one's attachment style.
Holistic Couples Therapy
Holistic approaches to relationship counseling offer a comprehensive perspective on strengthening couples' bonds by addressing the psychological, physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of their connection. This method stresses the importance of enhancing connection to resolve underlying issues.
Embodiment: Coming Home to Ourselves
The text explores the concept of embodiment, emphasizing the importance of reconnecting with the physical body in a culture that often prioritizes intellectual and emotional aspects over the physical. It defines embodiment as the experience of being a body in a social context and highlights the significance of exteroception, proprioception, and interoception in creating a felt sense of self.
Finding the Right Therapist for Your Teen
Finding a therapist can be hard, finding the right therapist for your teen may feel extremely overwhelming. In this article, we discuss what is important to keep in mind when looking for the right therapist for your teen.
How Trauma Can Impact Your Relationships
Trauma can make it more difficult to connect and engage with others and can lead to difficulties in trust, communication, and intimacy.
Intrusive Thoughts: An Acceptance and Commitment Approach
An exploration of Intrusive Thoughts, including what they are, who has them, and why they’re so emotionally distressing. From there, we’ll move into exploration of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a mindfulness-based behavioral therapy that can offer us relief in the form of psychological flexibility.
Helping Teens Manage Their Stress Holistically
Stress presents itself differently in adolescents than in adults and can sometimes be overlooked. Today we will take a closer look at signs of stress in adolescents and then review ways to holistically help decrease your child’s stress.
Self-Compassion + Your Nervous System
Just as our stories are different depending on how the nervous system is functioning, the stories we are telling ourselves also impact how the nervous system is functioning. We have the ability to help support the nervous system in regulating or to contribute to dysregulation.
5 Easy Strategies to Boost Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is the way you view and feel about yourself. It is the level of confidence and self-worth that you have. Today on the blog, we are exploring 5 strategies and practices to help boost your self-esteem.
Boundaries: A Radical Act of Self-care
An exploration of boundaries as a radical act of self-care. We’ll discuss what boundaries actually are, why they’re difficult to set, and why we need them both for our mental health and for the health of our relationships.
Grounding: the Benefits and the Practice
Grounding encompasses simple tactics aimed at disengaging from emotional distress. These tactics include distractions directing our attention outward, to the external world. They also are helpful to bring us back to the present moment.
5 Ways to Take Care of Your Mental Health in College
Taking care of your mental health during school can be really hard. Between classes, friends, and work it becomes difficult to make time for yourself. Here are five changes I made to prioritize my wellbeing during college.