Mental Health and Wellness Blog
Find helpful advice and support for your mental and emotional health. Our goal is to entertain, inform and educate you about various mental health issues, while fighting stigma and bringing awareness to real issues.
Find helpful advice and support for your mental and emotional health. Our goal is to entertain, inform and educate you about various mental health issues, while fighting stigma and bringing awareness to real issues.
Anxiety and Depression alter our brain function by overactivating the amygdala, shrinking the hippocampus, and reducing prefrontal cortex activity. These changes impair our abil...
Ever wonder why your partner always seems to disappoint you? It could be the idea of "Happily Ever After". Is this expectation realistic, or not? Read along to dive de...
Betrayal trauma is a profound emotional injury that occurs when someone we rely on for security, love, or connection violates our trust. And when that trust is shattered it trig...
The pain of betrayal doesn't just wound the heart - it destabilizes your entire sense of reality. This blog gives direction on how to find safety and recovery.
Functional freeze is a survival state of the nervous system. It’s when your body and mind go into autopilot to protect you from feeling too overwhelmed. You might look cal...
Expectations, Disappointment, and Core Values. Learn how they relate.
A dream is your mind’s way of trying to communicate with you in your resting state. Therapists can use dreams to better understand the client’s waking world.
As a therapist, it’s common to hear people say that they don’t feel “emotionally safe.” But what does being “emotionally safe” actually...
Some individuals don’t believe empathy to be something that anyone can express unless they have truly been through the same situation as another individual. Is that true?
What's interesting about “New Year's resolutions” is that most individuals do not end up following through with them. How can you do better?