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How to Tell if Your Therapist Is a Match
You’re in your first therapy session, chatting with your potential clinician. They ask you questions about your history and your current needs. Inside, however, you may be wondering, “Is this person right for me?” Whether you are brand new to therapy or you’re an old pro, knowing if a therapist is right for you can…
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How To Get The Most Out of Therapy
Finally ready to talk to someone? Maybe you used to go to therapy, but it’s been a minute since you last attended. Going to therapy can feel like a daunting, exciting, time consuming and possibly life changing experience. Therapy, when matched with the right therapist and the right approach, can be an immensely healing process.…
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Simple Nasal Breathing to Manage Stress
Do you often breathe with your mouth? Are you regularly stressed? If that sounds like you, you may benefit from a simple, nasal breathing technique. It’s estimated that 80% of people have suboptimal breathing patterns, which worsens stress, impairs sleep, and reduces energy levels. In this brief article, you will learn what suboptimal…
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Creating a Safety Plan for Disordered Eating
Eating disorders are not just a challenge, they’re a serious health concern that can have a profound impact on your physical and emotional well-being. They can affect your heart rate, lead to fainting spells, disrupt your growth, and so much more. That’s why having a well-thought-out safety plan is crucial. Think of a safety plan…
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Tips for Building Meditation Into Your Life
Meditation is a powerful practice. The many benefits include improved focus, increased self-awareness, reduced anxiety, improved stress management skills, and improved sleep, to name a few. But there’s a catch. In order to receive these benefits, you need to meditate consistently. This is not a magical technique that will fix all of your problems after…
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Coping With the Challenges of Parenting a Child With ADHD
For parents, the journey of raising a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) might seem like navigating through a maze. There might be dead ends and confusing twists that leave you scratching your head. But amid the challenges, there are unexpected moments of victory and happiness, kind of like finally finding the right path…
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Understanding and Managing Anger in Your Relationships
Imagine you’re on a football team, and someone else takes credit for the goal you scored. Or maybe a friend keeps canceling plans with you, a family member doesn’t listen to your advice, or your partner doesn’t understand your feelings. In each of these cases, you might feel anger. Anger is an emotion as familiar…
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How to Become Less Frustrated With Yourself
Have you ever wondered why you’re so hard on yourself? If you have, you’re not alone This feeling, aptly named “self-frustration,” is a universal phenomenon that we all face at one point or another. What’s even more promising is that it’s not a life sentence – with the right approach, managing and mitigating self-frustration is…
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Embrace Every Curve: How to Develop a Positive Body Image
Body image. It’s a term we hear often, but sometimes find tough to think about in a positive way. Every day, we’re bombarded by images of “perfection.” These photos, often airbrushed and unrealistic, can be damaging to our self-esteem, leading us down a path of negative self-talk and dissatisfaction with our own unique forms. But…
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Ten Signs You May Be Depressed
Major depressive disorder, also referred to as clinical depression, is one of the most prevalent mental health ailments in the United States. According to the National Institutes of Mental Health (2020), around 21.0 million U.S. adults aged 18 or older had experienced at least one major depressive episode, representing 8.4% of the adult population in…