Why We All Need a Mental Health Day Sometimes

Why We All Need a Mental Health Day Sometimes

You’ve probably heard the term and maybe even taken a mental health day. Although much of society (and likely your boss) may think it’s an excuse to stay home and goof off when you’re not sick, it’s a real necessity in our hectic lives. According to a recent study,...
Seasonal Affective Disorder

Seasonal Affective Disorder

The temperatures are dropping. There is a crisp smell in the air. Pumpkin spice everything is available and you’re either wearing crimson and white or navy and burnt orange. While some embrace the fall season approaching, it has quite the opposite effect on those with...
How to Talk to Your Parents About Getting Therapy

How to Talk to Your Parents About Getting Therapy

As your parents age, they will begin to experience more loss, health diagnoses, and changes in life that can lead to feelings of sadness, worry, and depression. If you have noticed changes in the overall behavior of your elderly parent, it may be time to seek out a...
Thriving with ADHD at Any Age

Thriving with ADHD at Any Age

Living with ADHD can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to control your life. With the proper help, you can not only live with your diagnosis, but you can thrive! Whether you have been dealing with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) your entire life or...
Start Your Own Mental Health Garden

Start Your Own Mental Health Garden

Cultivate Your Own Place Of Reflection And Healing With Autumn’s Arrival Autumn is here, and with its arrival, a new season of rest and reflection. We don’t normally tend to think of autumn as a time of growth – the flashy, brilliant spring greens and...
Myths about Therapy for Kids

Myths about Therapy for Kids

Are you worried about how others will perceive you if your child attends therapy? Are you afraid once your child starts therapy they will need it forever? Believe it or not, receiving child therapy doesn’t mean you or your child are crazy. Stay with me here, and we’ll...
Tips to Improve Family Communication

Tips to Improve Family Communication

Families today are more diverse than ever. Yours may be a blended family with his, hers and ours, or a family with kids from newborn to teenager. Some kids may be biological, while others may be adopted. You may even be what is often thought of as a traditional family...
Benefits of Nature Based Therapy

Benefits of Nature Based Therapy

With pandemic induced isolation and virtual consumption on the rise, people are finding themselves drifting further and further away from nature based therapy, or “ecotherapy” for mental health treatment. In fact, a recent article by Counseling Today estimates that we...
Into the Wild…or Simply, a Garden

Into the Wild…or Simply, a Garden

Embracing Nature for Mental Health When Cheryl Strayed’s book, Wild hit shelves in 2012, it started a massive movement towards reading about and experiencing the outdoors-especially among women. In Strayed’s book, she highlights how nature can often offer a healing...