There are many different signs of improving mental health. The way to improve can be done in many different ways. You can process your struggles with a therapist, use different modalities of therapy such as CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), mindfulness, meditation and other tools. They are all designed to decrease your suffering and help you ...
Do you experience stress? Of course you do, we all do. Life and relationships are challenging. Even if we try to avoid stress or conflict, it will come into our world. However it impacts some more than others. Several factors come into play as to how people handle stress based on genetics, personality style, resiliency, ...
If you suffer from anxiety, you are far from being alone. Anxiety is one of the main reasons people come to therapy. Perhaps you have been anxious your whole life. Maybe a traumatic event increased your anxiety. You may have even thought you were having a heart attack, went to the emergency room and found ...
Do you have trouble managing difficult emotions? It is OK to admit it. Many people do at some point in their life, others more often. Maybe you’ve tried to calm down and prevent yourself from overreacting and haven’t had much luck. It doesn’t feel good and it can destroy relationships. No one likes to admit ...
Are you someone who feels anxious all the time? Do you spend hours worrying about things that never happen? Perhaps you are doing some things that increase anxiety, and you don't even know it. Many people struggle with anxiety and it is the main reason people come to therapy. Of course you have tried everything ...
It should be no surprise that one of the main reasons people come to therapy is to reduce anxiety. We all have some level of anxiety, and most of us can squash it down, or move through it without too much trouble. But for some people it becomes so great that they may have a ...
Tolerating uncertainty is what most of us do and don’t even realize it. We don’t worry about the nitty-gritty details of something that might or might not happen in the future. We have faith that everything will be OK no matter how it turns out. Sure we like to have a basic plan, but we ...
Practicing Gratitude Practicing gratitude is one of the most important things that you can do to improve your mood. It is just about impossible to feel gratitude and depression at the same time, as they are polar opposites. Practicing it can be a total game changer in your outlook and mood. It has been shown ...
The tips on anxiety in this blog are taken from an article in Psychology Today by Steven Hayes (co-founder of acceptance and commitment therapy). Hayes, like most of you who suffer from panic attacks, learned about this from a trip to the emergency room. You most likely thought you were having a heart attack. This ...
Unwanted thoughts are something that people with anxiety struggle. However, anxiety takes on many forms. Some people with anxiety ruminate. This is the person who keeps thinking the same thought over and over again, or going down the, “what if” path. It’s like a never-ending do-loop that takes up a lot of time and mental ...
