• March Week 1 – How to Handle Anxiety in the Face of Looming Layoffs
    Job security is an important factor when you’re considering a career path. No one enters into a job assuming they’re going to get fired or be let go.  Unfortunately, we’re living in uncertain economic times. Some industries are struggling more than others, and that means some businesses have been forced to rethink their budgets. ...
  • How To Stop A Porn Addiction – 3-1
    Porn addiction is often seen as a taboo subject. It’s off-limits to discuss and, therefore, is an issue that often goes unnoticed. However, it is an issue that many people worldwide secretly deal with. While men are most often seen as the ones who become addicted to it, women are just as susceptible ...
  • Is It Bad If We Fight In Couples Therapy? – 3-1
    Let’s face it — all couples fight. Fighting, in itself, is not bad. It can be a helpful way to resolve conflict and grow closer in the relationship. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good to fight. In moderation, fighting is okay, but when it becomes a daily or weekly occurrence, many couples ...
  • March Week 1 – How Does Anxiety Affect Your Body?
    Anxiety is a mental health condition, but it doesn’t just affect your emotions. In fact, anxiety symptoms can have debilitating impacts on both your mental and physical health. It’s not uncommon for people suffering from anxiety to assume that they have a physical illness, only for their doctors to give them clean bills ...
  • Why Setting Boundaries is Essential if You Are a People-Pleaser, 3-1
    If you consider yourself a people-pleaser, you likely put the needs and wants of others above your own more often than not. While there’s nothing wrong with doing things for others, it can easily take a toll on your well-being if you let it wear you down or impact your quality of life. As ...
  • 5 Ways to Calm an Anxiety Attack – 3-1
    Dealing with anxiety can feel like an uphill battle. Even just thinking about your anxiety can cause you to feel anxious. It’s an endless, vicious cycle that seems never-ending. Unfortunately, many people throughout the world are dealing with anxiety regularly. In fact, the numbers are rising for the amount of people diagnosed with ...
  • March Week 1 – You’ve Graduated College…What Now?
    Graduation! It’s a time filled with excitement, anticipation, relief, and let’s be honest…a bit of anxiety about what the future holds. You are now facing the “real world” full of high expectations and uncertainty about life and career paths. Some may even experience post-graduate depression. These emotions can feel extremely isolating, but remember you ...
  • March Week 1 – Is There a Typical Post-Divorce Grieving Process?
    There isn’t a book that explains all of the steps to get from point A to point Z. You can’t study or complete homework assignments, quizzes, or tests to become more knowledgeable or feel prepped and ready to tackle this process. You also can’t circle a date on your calendar weeks, months, or ...
  • March Week 1 – How to Have a Successful Marriage with a Workaholic
    The divorce rate for couples where one or both partners are workaholics is two times higher compared to those working a routine work week. Living with a workaholic over the long run of a relationship can have severe impacts. The psychological toll alone can be detrimental to your dynamic and intimacy. Workaholic behavior at ...
  • 4 Tips for Managing ADHD at Work – Colin Martin
    ADHD is a common neurodevelopmental deficit that can impact your attention, productivity, behaviors, and interactions.  When it comes to work, being able to focus and maintain organization is key to being successful. Unfortunately, ADHD can interfere with that.  Learning more about ADHD and understanding how to manage symptoms can help you improve your performance and ...
  • Rebuilding Your Relationship: How to Get Past Infidelity Triggers – Sandra Gordon
    Infidelity is an incredibly painful experience that can shatter the trust of even the strongest of relationships. Individuals can suffer from prolonged issues of anger, insecurity, uncertainty, and sadness. Despite the devastation, however, it is possible to rebuild the relationship and move past the infidelity as a whole. One way to do this is ...
  • Gen-Z and Anxiety: Why Can’t They Avoid It? – Sarah Moulaei
    People born between 1997 and 2012 are considered the Gen-Z generation. Just like all the generations before, this one has its own unique challenges that they’re being faced with.  As many of these factors and challenges hit earlier and more severely, this generation is experiencing anxiety at much higher rates. So what is contributing ...
  • Can Anxiety Create False Memories? – 3/1
    Anxiety can make day-to-day functions a struggle for people who suffer from it. Social activities can be difficult, reading social signs or conforming to social norms is harder, and controlling your thought processes may feel impossible. Memory is one thing that can be affected by anxiety. Recent studies have shown that people who demonstrate ...
  • Knowing the Difference Between Healthy and Unhealthy Guilt – 3-1
    We wouldn’t be human if we didn’t feel regret. Let’s face it: we all have done or said things in the past we wish we hadn’t. We all wish we had done something differently or gone a different route. It’s hard not to look back at your life and wonder, “What if?” Feeling intense ...
  • March Week 1 – What Is the Connection Between Childhood Trauma and Anxiety?
    No matter if you had a good upbringing or not, many people prefer to keep their past in their rearview mirror. For some, it isn’t always that easy. No matter how painful the memories are or how hard they try to forget about them and move on, it’s part of them. Those good ...
  • How to Overcome Anxiety of Losing Your Job, 3-1
    Losing your job can be scary and overwhelming, especially when you don’t have any backups in place. Most people don’t expect to lose their jobs, so the suddenness of it can also cause instant anxiety. Of course, after the initial shock wears off, your fears can settle in even deeper. You might start to ...
  • Parental Grief When Your Child has a Disability, 3-1
    When your child has a disability, you want to do everything in your power to make life as fulfilling as possible for them. You want to make sure they aren’t held back or discriminated against. You want to help them feel as equal as possible to their peers.  But there’s a lot that goes ...
  • March Week 1 – From Delay to Done: Strategies for Overcoming Procrastination
    We’ve all experienced moments where we’ve put off tasks, promising ourselves we’ll tackle them later, only to find ourselves trapped in a cycle of delay and frustration. Whether it’s a looming deadline, a daunting project, or a mundane chore, procrastination has a way of creeping into our lives, hindering our potential and leaving ...
  • March Week 1 – How to Use Mindfulness to Navigate Relationship Challenges and Conflict
    Because we live in a world where stress and distractions often dominate our lives, maintaining healthy relationships and taking care of your mental health can become difficult to balance. Whether it’s conflicts with a partner, family member, friend, or colleague, finding effective ways to navigate relationship challenges is essential for your overall well-being. One ...
  • March Week 1 – Recognizing Signs of Stress in Children and What to Do About It
    Maybe you’ve been concerned about your child’s wellbeing lately. You can’t quite put your finger on the problem, but they just haven’t seemed like themself. Or perhaps your family has been going through a tough time recently, and you’ve noticed that the stress has been rubbing off on them. You may not have ...
  • March Week 1 – How Does Homophobia Harm Relationships?
    Even in the 21st century, homophobia remains a big problem across the country — and the globe. The biases against homophobic relationships can create deep hurt, and can cause the cycle of homophobia to continue for generations to come.  Beyond that, homophobia harms relationships. If you’re in the LGBTQIA+ community and currently in a ...
  • March Week 1 – Bridging the Gap: Strategies to Support Troubled Teens Who Reject Counseling
    Getting a troubled teen into counseling is often easier said than done. Rebellion is a pretty common aspect of adolescent development, especially if they’re feeling ashamed, skeptical, or afraid. Here are a few strategies for involving a resistant teen in the counseling process. Build their trust Framing the conversation around seeing a counselor can be ...
  • March Week 1 – How to Build Lasting Emotional Intimacy
    Physical intimacy isn’t the only type of intimacy that’s important to a relationship. In fact, emotional intimacy can feed into and deepen your physical connection. When you neglect your emotional connection, it’ll have a ripple effect throughout all the dimensions of your partnership. Here are several ways to build lasting emotional intimacy. Keep doing ...
  • March Week 1 – How to Recognize and Address Depression in Kids
    We don’t often associate depression with children. It’s typically looked at as a mental health condition adults struggle with. After all, what do kids have to be depressed about, right?  Unfortunately, more than you think.  Childhood depression is very real and not something to be taken lightly or glossed over. Don’t assume that your child ...
  • Navigating Depression About Career Choices 3-1
    Making a career choice early on in life can feel somewhat intimidating and overwhelming. Some people have a specific job in mind from a very young age. Others wait until they graduate high school or even college before deciding on a career path.  But what happens when the career you thought you always wanted ...
  • Relationship Burnout: What It Is & How To Overcome It – 3-1
    When we hear the word burnout, we often think about work and life. We feel burned out from our stressful jobs, busy schedules after work, and everything in between. The stress and exhaustion come from just trying to stay afloat and balanced. Many people haven’t heard of burnout in terms of our relationships. However, ...
  • How Does Depression Affect the Brain? – 3-1
    Understandably, most people associate depression with sad emotions. But, in reality, this mood disorder causes a much more comprehensive range of symptoms. These can range from losing interest in activities you once enjoyed to having thoughts of self-harm. Depression is common and serious and not something to attempt to resolve via self-help only. Additionally, ...
  • The Ripple Effect: How Unmet Childhood Needs Shape Adult Relationships – Paul Austin
    During childhood, we rely on our caregivers to meet our basic needs for love, safety, and security. When these needs go unfulfilled, it can lead to deep-seated emotional wounds that shape our beliefs about ourselves and others. Understanding the connection between unmet childhood needs and adult relationship patterns is an important step toward ...
  • How to Cope with Decision Fatigue in Everyday Life, Nancy Becker
    We’re all faced with multiple decisions every day. Some are big, some are small. Some only affect us, while some might impact the people in our lives, like our children or aging parents.  Many people don’t realize exactly how many decisions they have to make in a day until it becomes overwhelming. When you ...
  • Allyship 101: The Do’s and Don’ts of Supporting the LGBTQ+ Community, Kety Lopez
    It’s no secret that the LGBTQIA+ community often comes under fire. Even in the 21st century, homophobia runs rampant, and those in the queer community often aren’t given the same respect or needs that straight individuals are used to.  However, because more people are coming forward to speak their truth, the community is growing. ...
  • Signs That Grief Is Impacting Your Daily Life & How to Heal (3-1)
    Grief is a natural response to loss; we’ll all experience it eventually. While grieving is a normal and healthy process, it can sometimes become overwhelming and impact your daily life in subtle ways. Recognizing the signs that grief is interfering with your ability to get through the day is the first step toward ...
  • Could You Be Suffering from PTSD? The Most Common Symptoms Explained – Colin Martin
    Post-traumatic stress disorder, also known as PTSD, is often associated with military veterans after experiencing combat. Over the years, it has been discovered to affect not only veterans, but also anyone who has experienced a traumatic event.  Anxiety is a common thread through PTSD, but there are also many other common symptoms that can ...
  • What Happens If You Can’t Remember Trauma?
    When it comes to addressing trauma, the journey to healing often involves navigating through layers of memories, emotions, and experiences. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy has gained recognition as a powerful tool in this journey, offering individuals a pathway to process and integrate traumatic memories. However, what happens when someone can’t ...
  • Demystifying Myths About Love that Lead to Unrealistic Expectations – Sarah Moore
    It’s important to have high standards for your partner’s behavior. Qualities like basic kindness should be non-negotiable in relationships. Furthermore, everyone will have their own personal standards, like sharing the same opinions on pivotal life decisions. However, sometimes people have unrealistic standards for relationships that lead to nothing but disappointment down the road. This ...
  • How to Nurture Parent-Child Relationships with Autism in Mind – Mitch Hicks
    If you’re raising a child with autism, you pour lots of time and energy into putting their wellbeing first. You want to ensure that they receive the support and services they need at home, at school, and in other settings. You’re frequently coordinating with medical professionals, educators, and people in your community to ...
  • April Week 1 – Demystifying Anxiety Attacks: Understanding the Mechanics and Coping Strategies
    Many people are familiar with panic attacks, if not from experience, then at least conceptually. Some may also use the term anxiety attack as an alternative to “panic attack.” However, an anxiety attack and a panic attack are not the same. While both are certainly rooted in anxiety somehow, the way an anxiety attack ...
  • Strategies for Addressing Anxiety in Those with Chronic Pain – Michael Quirke
    Some level of physical pain is inevitable. Chronic pain is a much different story. It might involve, for example, fibromyalgia, arthritis, headaches and migraines, nerve damage, and low back issues. Technically, if pain lasts for at least six months, it is deemed chronic. Chronic pain negatively impacts your quality of life and hampers your ...
  • Tips For Parents Of Children With ADHD – 3-2
    Raising a child is a one-of-a-kind experience. It brings joy, of course, but it is not without its struggles. For example, if your child has been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), childrearing involves new experiences and new challenges. Depending on how ADHD impacts your particular child, you will need to create unique rules, ...
  • 4 Ways to Navigate Depression After Job Loss  – 3-2
    The concept of job loss covers a lot of ground. For some, it could involve a traumatic firing. Other folks quit, get slowly downsized, or they opt to retire. In today’s gig economy, it’s not rare to have a freelance position run its course. Regardless of the scenario, job loss involves change, and ...
  • How to Tell if Anxiety is Holding You Back at Work – 3-1
    Work seems like a struggle lately. The emails are getting answered. The projects are finished. But nothing feels as easy to complete as it has in the past. It may feel like the world is moving around you at an increased rate, but it’s like you’re frozen in place, unable to keep pace or ...
  • How To Deal With Anxiety About Choosing A College To Attend
    The last four years haven’t always been perfect or easy, but they were yours. You‘ve learned and grown a lot over the past four years and become the person you are today. The same friends traveled with you from middle school to high school. You were even able to make a few new ...
  • How Women’s Hormones Affect Anxiety 
    A woman’s hormones have a powerful, pervasive impact on all aspects of her mental and physical health. These chemical messengers influence everything from your digestive system to your menstrual cycle and beyond. Since anxiety is the most common mental health issue on the planet, it should come as no surprise that hormones can ...
  • The Impact of Depression On Family Relationships
    Depression is a silent thief, stealing not just the joy from an individual’s life but also casting its shadow over the entire family unit. In the midst of its darkness, family relationships can bear the brunt of its weight, often experiencing strain, misunderstanding, and turmoil. Let’s explore how depression influences family relationships and ways ...
  • The Fear of Failure and How It Negatively Influences Social Anxiety
    Picture this: you’re standing in a crowded room, surrounded by people engaged in conversation and laughter. Your heart starts racing, palms become sweaty, and an overwhelming sense of dread washes over you. You’re consumed by the fear of saying something foolish, of being judged, of failing to fit in. Welcome to the world ...
  • What Are The Benefits of CBT For Depression?
    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, also known as CBT, is a preferred treatment approach due to its benefits and fast results. CBT doesn’t involve deep diving into the past, nor does it follow the concept that external factors heavily influence behaviors and feelings.  Instead, CBT revolves around the idea that your thoughts control your feelings and ...
  • Why Does Grief Come In Waves and How Can You Heal?
    Everyone experiences grief at some point. When you initially go through a loss, the pain can be intense and overwhelming. While there’s no timeline for getting through grief, the pain tends to fade for most people after a few days, weeks, or months.  But, that doesn’t mean it’s gone for good. Have you ever ...
  • Undiagnosed ADHD and Why It Can Lead to Depression
    Undiagnosed ADHD comes with a whole host of problems—all of which are harder to manage when you don’t know why you’re struggling with them. Often, we think of ADHD as a problem with an excess of energy or difficulty paying attention, but there’s more to it than that. Unmanaged, ADHD is linked to ...
  • The Effect of Trauma Bonding On Relationships
    Disney movies were always known for their princesses and being saved by Prince Charming.  While there were different princesses, the storyline was always the same thing. The princess always needs saving by the prince. It was always love at first sight. Dreams coming true. Defeating a villain and becoming a hero. But real life isn’t ...
  • How To Communicate With Your Partner When You Are Angry
    Communication is an essential component of any healthy relationship. Maybe you don’t have a hard time prioritizing communication with your partner when things are going well. After all, it’s easy to be open and honest when you’re happy and your needs are being met.  But, what happens when you’re angry with each other?  Even the ...
  • How To Practice Positive Parenting With Your Child
    Positive parenting isn’t necessarily a new approach to raising children. However, it’s gained traction over the last few years thanks to the benefits. Studies have shown that positive parenting can boost a child’s self-esteem, help them do better in school, and improve their overall mental health.  Additionally, when you practice positive parenting, you’re serving ...