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Coping with Loss During the Holiday Season
If you’ve come to read this blog, I first want you to know that you are not alone. Holidays are often difficult for a multitude of reasons including financial stress, the positive stresses surrounding celebrations and more. Holidays can feel even more complicated when...
Mindfulness: A Guide to Accessible Apps
Mindfulness is a helpful tool to use when experiencing anxious thoughts, low mood, stress, or grief. There are many ways to practice mindfulness, including mindful eating, gardening, creating art, or walking a labyrinth. While these practices are wonderful and highly...
Holiday Blues
We are in the full swing of what people call “the most wonderful time of the year”. However, for a lot of people, it can be the hardest part of the year. What makes this time of the year so wonderful to some and so difficult for others? There can be many possible...
It’s Okay to Not be Okay
How many times has someone asked you how you’re doing, and you have replied “fine” or “good,” which couldn’t have been further from the truth? How many times have you been nearing a breakdown or feel like you are mentally spiraling and put on a fake smile to mask your...
Therapeutic Gifts to Give Your Loved Ones This Holiday Season
With the Holidays right around the corner, it is time to start thinking about your Holiday wish lists and what to give your loved ones this season. If you are anything like me, you will find this time stressful. As wonderful as the lights, the sweets, and the movies...
Holiday Mantras
Hey there mental health miracles. As we marinate in the stew of the holiday season, I’d like to share two words that are serving as mantras for me this year: permission and choice. Recently I was sitting in a circle of women discussing Thanksgiving and someone...