Beginning Therapy, Mental Health Topics, Parenting Counseling Adolescents – The important role of the family by Algem Hopkinson on Apr 5, 2016 What is going on with my child!? This is probably the question that you have asked yourself a few hundred times before finally scheduling an appointment. Your teenager has recently been struggling in school , has been exhibiting defiant behavior at home or has been withdrawn lately. The first appointment…
Family, Mental Health Topics, Self-Care How Mindfulness Can Save Your Family Vacation by Angie Sumrall on Mar 31, 2016 Do you ever feel like you need a vacation after your vacation? As Clark Griswold can attest, family vacations can often be hectic and stressful rather than the relaxing or adventurous vacation you had in mind. Whether it’s the weather that ruins your plans, unexpected tantrums (your kids or yours)…
Mental Health Topics, Self-Care A Mother’s Guilty Pleasure – What The Vampire Diaries Can Teach You About Self Care by Kim Matone, LPCA on Mar 28, 2016 We all have those guilty pleasures that we don’t like to admit- sneaking an extra piece of cake, listening to bad pop music or watching a television drama that is meant for a younger audience. Mine is The Vampire Diaries. Between shuttling the kids to school and trying to make…
Mental Health Topics, Parenting 5 Tips for Raising Kids with Character and Money by Mandi Corbett on Mar 27, 2016 It’s 7am. You haven’t had your coffee. Your three-year-old is clinging to your leg like a Kuala bear because he’s hungry. You make your way to the kitchen, trying to blink away the lack of sleep from your eyes, when a sharp object sinks into the bottom center of your…
Grief & Loss, Mental Health Topics, Relationships There is a Hole in My Heart – Losing a Friend by Dawn Gaden, M.A., LPC, NCC on Mar 17, 2016 I have lost a friend today. And now where there used to be love, and friendship, and laughter, and tears, and joy… there is now a big empty hole. What the #($%*&$# do I do now? I feel lost, hopeless, helpless, scared, sad and lonely. What do I do? The…
Anxiety, Mental Health Topics Why do I have obsessive bad thoughts? by Lisa McCafferty on Feb 24, 2016 Bad Thoughts Sometimes Come from Out of Nowhere You’re standing at the sink peeling a carrot. You have a paring knife in your hand. You’ve peeled carrots dozens of times with the same knife. Why this time do you have the thought you might stab your husband in the back?…
Mental Health Topics, Self-Improvement 5 Sigmund Freud ideas that changed the world: Then and now by Taylor Bennett on Feb 19, 2016 Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. – Sigmund Freud Freudian Ideas and the Test of Time If anyone has increased our consciousness about the mind it is Sigmund Freud. He is synonymous with the exploration of the psyche and undoubtedly was one of…
Coping Skills, Mental Health Topics, Stress A Simple Method to Deal with Chronic Overwhelm by Andrea Greebon on Feb 17, 2016 Everything is coming at us so quickly these days. Emails. Voicemails. Twitter. Facebook. Texting. Everything that you would ever want to know can be found on the Internet. Everything is so fast. And we feel like we can’t get even get a breath. Or at least a good breath. Many…
Mental Health Topics, Self-Improvement Today is the BEST Day of the Rest of Your Life! by Dawn Gaden, M.A., LPC, NCC on Feb 9, 2016 TODAY IS THE BEST DAY OF THE REST OF MY LIFE! What do you think about that? Declaring your day? Owning it. How does it feel? Way deep down in your gut, how does it really feel? I have a feeling I know what is going on in your head…
Mental Health Topics, Relationships Couples in Conflict over Decorating the Home: What you Need to Know by Anthony Centore, PhD on Feb 8, 2016 A common (and underrated) conflict between couples is the fight that takes place when buying furniture and decorating the home. Here are some thoughts. This conflict seems to be increasing as it’s now common for both partners to be involved in the domestic affairs of the home. I find it’s…
Communication, Mental Health Topics Why is asking for help so hard? by Linda Mikesic on Jan 27, 2016 Why is asking for help so hard? I know that when I was growing up, asking for help was seen as a sign of weakness. We were raised to not go outside of our family system with our problems. It is no wonder that I was well into my twenties…
Mental Health Topics, Self-Improvement A Motivational Rant to Remind You That You’re In Charge Of Your Own Destiny by Jonathan Leger on Jan 4, 2016 It happens to all of us sooner or later. We look at the neighbor and we’re jealous. We wonder why they can afford a new car, new house, and new furniture and we’re still stuck with something that barely runs, barely stands and is threadbare. Why is their life so…