The holiday season can be a difficult time for many people. While people tend to associate the holiday season as a happy and joyful time, for many people, these are not the only feelings that are coming up
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Cultivating calmness only requires an awareness of how you’re feeling and a willingness to engage in practices that can elicit calmness within ourselves. So the question becomes, how do we actually have more calmness in our lives amidst the chaos and stress?
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Oftentimes, kids don’t quite understand what is going on when anxiety symptoms arise. It is not until the realization that the child is visiting the nurse every day for stomachaches, or a concerned parent calls explaining the struggle of getting their child to school every morning, that it is made clear that the child is experiencing anxiety and needs support.
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In the spirit of October, let’s talk about masking. I’m not talking about dressing up and putting on your spookiest Frankenstein’s Monster mask to go trick-or-treating. I’m talking about engaging in inauthentic social behaviors and forgoing helpful/needed accommodations to meet more “socially acceptable” behaviors expected in a neurotypical society.
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Complementary alternative methods (CAM) are supportive methods/practices that are used in conjunction with standard medical treatments. Alone, these may not be a “cure” for a given condition, but when used alongside talk therapy, they may improve overall wellbeing and quality of life during treatment and beyond.
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At one point or another, we are all going to lose a loved one, whether it be a parent, partner, or friend. Loss is hard, and the subsequent grieving process can be confusing and overwhelming.
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There are things in our life that have the ability to leave us feeling FULL-filled and satisfied in ways that food or accomplishing tasks on our to-do lists cannot… Primary Foods are Relationships, Spiritual Practice, Physical Activity, and Career. Emphasis on one of these areas of life at the exclusion of the others or neglect of any or all of these result in imbalance…
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It is time to trade those late summer nights and leisurely mornings with bedtime routines and alarm clocks. Somehow, another summer has flown by, and fall is upon us again. It is not unusual to notice a sense of sadness or feelings of melancholy as this time comes.
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When the world is a scary place or a child is having new emotions that they don’t know how to communicate, play is their way of expressing what they are going through. It is also a tool that counselors can use to help children process whatever it is they are experiencing.
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