It’s Ok If Therapy Doesn’t Work Out
Establish Expectations That It’s Ok If Therapy Doesn’t Work Right Away When clients seek support for their mental health it’s important for the therapist to establish realistic expectations. Immediate relief is often expected but therapy doesn’t work that way. It’s important to emphasize that it’s ok if therapy doesn’t work right away. It’s OK If […]
Navigating The Symptoms of Depression
Understanding the Difference Between Sadness & Depression It’s important to understand the difference between experiencing normal emotions and navigating the symptoms of depression. Feeling depressed is a phrase that a lot of people throw around casually in conversation to describe negative feelings. An unhappy event has occurred. You’ve gotten some unhappy news or someone might […]
Feeling Left Behind by Peers
Feeling Left Behind by Peers When was the last time you felt behind your peers? Like everyone was achieving their goals and gaining traction and you were just barely past the starting line. While some are gaining promotions, or having babies, getting married, moving to a new city for their dream job. You are still […]
What is Gaslighting and What are the Signs
Gaslighting or to be gaslit has become popular terminology in recent years. In 2018 it was among the runners up for Oxford dictionaries word of the year (the winner ultimately being ‘toxic’).
10 Things to do While Grieving a Loved One
Grieving is a complicated process (as we looked at in our previous article) and can be difficult to navigate. There are lots of things you can do to help with processing a loss. Finding what works may be difficult, it may bring up emotions that are difficult to feel.
What Grief looks like.
It’s loud, and it’s quiet. It comes in waves, and can knock us down when we least expect it.
High Functioning …
What does it mean to be High Functioning? We hear this term “High Functioning” quite a bit when it comes to anxiety, depression, addiction, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), ADHD…
Burning the Candle at Both Ends
Burning the candle at both ends. Your alarm bursts to life at 6am each morning you hit snooze and roll over, but the amount of sleep you are getting never seems to be enough. You wake up exhausted no matter how early you go to bed. No amount of caffeine seems to do the job […]
Finding Time For Self-Care
This list has tasks that can take as little as a couple of minutes to as much as a day. Self-care is not meant to be a chore or to be stressful, and it also is not one size fits all. It doesn’t have to be complicated, we hope this list can make it less so.
Therapy Is Not for the Weak of Heart
It seems scary because it is, and society and media has told us for years that getting help and seeking out therapy makes you weak. However, just like anything in our body your brain deserves to heal and you along with it deserve to heal physically and emotionally.