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Micro-Breaks: The Secret to Better Focus and Less Stress
I’ll admit something right away, I’ve never been someone who can sit and focus for hours on end without feeling restless or drained. For a long time, I thought that meant there was something wrong with me. In school, I’d look around and notice classmates who could...
Working with Suicidality
Suicide is often a taboo and avoided subject, even in the mental health field. A lot of counselors are uncomfortable with talking about and assessing for suicide. There can be multiple reasons that lead to counselors feeling uncomfortable discussing suicide or working...
Choosing Meaning: How The Good Place Brings Existential Therapy to Life
There’s something quietly powerful about a story that sinks beneath the surface and speaks straight to the deep questions we ask ourselves: Is life meaningful? Can I change? When the pandemic pressed in with so many unanswerable fears, The Good Place offered a...
The Housewives of Wisteria Lane and Their Mental Health Secrets
Desperate Housewives wasn't just about scandals, secrets, and white-picket fences. Beneath the drama, it reveals something we see in real life every day: anxiety, perfectionism, trauma, depression, and burnout. The characters of Wisteria Lane may be fictional, but...
Why “Mother” Needs to Be a Genderless Term
For centuries, the word mother has carried with it a deeply gendered meaning. It has been used to signify not only the person who gives birth but also a set of rigid expectations about identity, biology, and social roles. In most cultures, “mother” is inextricably...
Summer Time Sadness
Summer isn’t just a time for sunshine, social plans, and traveling for many people, summer can actually feel heavier, not lighter. In the summer many people navigate negative body image, increase in financial and social demands, exhaustion and routine changes. While...