Practicing self care as a family supports the relational bond and is a constructive way to model healthy and effective skills to manage future stressors.
Let’s Get Outside!
Playing outside can help stimulate cognitive functioning, foster resilience, release endorphins, and increase an appreciation for nature.
Six tips to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions!
Setting resolutions for the year comes with great intentions and sometimes a mini pep talk to get us pumped up and motivated.
Normal Worry or Anxiety?
Anxiety is a prolonged form of stress that can be really detrimental when left untreated over time. Therapy has been shown to be extremely effective at treating anxiety and the accompanying symptoms. Reach out to a therapist to talk about how therapy could help your anxiety!
Being Supermom Stressing You Out?
Mothers are the world’s best jugglers: family, work, money—they seem to do it all. However, all that responsibility can often leave moms feeling overstretched and stressed out.
Coping with Family Stress During the Holidays
The holidays can be a wonderful time of year, but it is not uncommon to have some stress that centers around challenging family dynamics.
Making Amends
How hard should one try to make up after an argument or disagreement? What might be helpful is allowing for time to heal the wound.
Comparison: The Joy Thief
You may be surprised at the difference in your happiness when you stop living by other people’s standards and start living by your own.
Increasing Positive Interactions in Your Relationships
Do you keep score in your relationships of all the times your loved one has disappointed you? This can create a negative atmosphere that is difficult to overcome. If you expect someone to disappoint you, you will only focus on what they are doing wrong to prove you are right. The problem with this behavior is we miss-out on the good things our loved one is doing.
The Power of Listening Well
We’re busy. Our thoughts are going a million miles per hour. We’re used to having so much information flying at us, that to stop, press pause, focus, and just listen requires so much discipline.
