Teaching kids the fundamentals of self-care can help sustain mental well-being across the lifespan. Lead by example to help kids learn best practices; be a role model for positive self-care habits like eating well and exercising. You can improve children’s emotional intelligence by helping them build their emotional vocabulary. Children…
Grieving the loss of a pet is never easy, but we can help our grief process and healing along with self-care and counseling. First, though, it’ll help to understand why grieving the loss of a pet is so difficult: For one, they aren’t just pets but family members. Our pain…
Journaling enables us to express and process our emotions as well as our thoughts without judgment. However, the act of journaling is more difficult for some than others. If you’re interested in journaling but unsure where or how to start, mental health prompts can provide direction and offer health benefits,…
It’s possible to gorge yourself at holiday meals without experiencing lingering physical and emotional consequences. You can spare yourself some guilt and stress by sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner with a feasting mentality rather than a bingeing mentality. Though you can’t escape food, you can change your thoughts about food,…
There’s a difference between self-soothing and self-care. The former offers short-term relief while the latter can contribute to greater wellbeing that lasts. Self-care for parents isn’t the same as me-time or self-improvement. It’s sustainable, nourishing, and compassionate. Checking in with yourself doesn’t have to feel like another chore, and you…
Self-care topics have never been more popular on social media platforms, but many influencers share tips and advice that they aren’t qualified to give. This misleads their followers, acting as an ineffective replacement for real self-care practices. Toxic self-care tips may tell us we need to cancel plans or take…
When we’re in a relationship, finding time for ourselves can seem like a selfish act. In reality, prioritizing our personal needs through relationship self-care is a necessary part of a healthy romantic connection. It’s common to skimp on our personal time and start to hyper-fixate on our relationship in order…
Throughout a raging pandemic, the world embraced the immense importance of wellbeing and healthy lifestyle choices. We’ve all been going above and beyond to fight our cravings, introduce more vitamin-rich snacks into our days, and somehow, keep stress at a minimum in order to protect our health and sanity. We…
An effective self-care strategy requires identifying practices that work specifically for you: practices that you’ll enjoy engaging in and stick to. You can identify these practices by asking yourself, “What self-care practices align with my values and my interests?’ For example, if you’re a people-person and relationships are most important…
What do you look forward to at the end of a long day or week? Maybe it’s a bubble bath with your favorite book in hand. Or, maybe it’s watching the next episode of your current Netflix binge. Whatever it is, it probably centers around taking a well-deserved break—letting your…
Click here to schedule online counseling at Thriveworks. Hey y’all, my name is Brittany Morris. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the lead clinician with Thriveworks in Chesapeake, Virginia. A lot’s been going on obviously with COVID-19 and so we’ve been tasked, just kind of give some advice…
Thanks to streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+, we can binge-watch almost anything we want, whenever we want. This type of viewing is enjoyed by the majority of the US, as a new study shows that 70% of American households subscribe to at least one video streaming service. The…