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Posts by category
- Category: Contributing Writer
- Supporting A Loved One After Sexual Assault
- How to Heal From a Breakup
- The Fresh New Year’s Resolution: Going to Therapy
- 6 Causes of Workplace Burnout
- What is Brainspotting?
- How to Conquer a Phobia
- How to Practice Mindfulness
- 4 Tips for Becoming a Grandparent
- The Key To Happiness
- 5 Ways to Resolve Anxiety-Related Sleep Problems
- The Dangers of Workplace Fatigue
- Can Exercise Reduce Symptoms of Depression?
- How Running Can Boost Your Mood
- Nature As Self-Care
- 5 Ways to Deal With Fear of the Unknown
- How To Get a Stronger Relationship? Gratitude
- No More Lost Opportunities: Conquering Social Anxiety
- Build Your Resilience
- Increase Your Motivation At Work
- Boost Your Brain Health
- Planning a Stress-Free Vacation
- The Psychological Impact of Sexual Objectification
- How to Use Art to Boost Your Mood
- How to Save the World (Without Burning Out)
- 4 Ways to Cope With Memories of Loss
- Am I Living With PTSD?
- 3 Steps to Creating A Safe, Soothing Haven
- Is the Best Work Environment…Your Home?
- How To Achieve Your Goals
- How You Can Support Your Partner’s Mental Health
- How to Make a Major Life Change Work To Your Advantage
- Why We Need Unconditional Love and Acceptance from Caregivers
- Comparing Ourselves On Social Media
- What Can You Get Out Of A Mentor-Mentee Relationship?
- Improving Our Relationships With Our Parents
- How to Decrease Loneliness
- Take A Hike: How Outdoor Activity Builds Mental Health
- Feeling SAD? All About Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Can Positive Thinking Really Increase Happiness?
- 3 Ways to Detox Your Social Environment
- Category: Featured Friday
- 6 Floral Essences to Improve your Anxiety, Insomnia, Mood, and More!
- 1 Simple Strategy to Reduce Anxiety in a Crowded Place
- 5 Tips to Improve Your Summer Sleep Schedule
- Wellness Wednesday: Shamanic Healing with Marie Rodriguez
- Featured Friday: Art Therapy with Lina Assad Cates, LMFT, ATR
- Featured Friday: Play Therapy with Cathy Canfield, LICSW
- Category: Happenings
- Insights on Suicide Prevention from a Crisis Counselor
- The Resilient Brain Project: How It Started and Where It Is Headed
- Safety Is Baseline: Tools for the LGBTQ+ Community and Allies
- A Compassionate Conversation On Addiction
- Post Traumatic Growth and Healing
- The Relationship Between Core Values and Burnout
- Parts Work, Healing and Following Our Inner Compass
- So You Want to Start Nonverbal Therapy?
- Understanding, Living and Loving Those with Social Anxiety
- The Importance of Transgenerational Therapy
- Your Gut Is Telling You Something. Can You Feel It?
- You Look Great! The Intersection Between Eating Disorders and Diet Culture
- Intersectional Conversations: Supporting & Celebrating Your Queer Identity
- Art Therapy as Trauma Treatment: The Power of Nonverbal Expression
- Not What You Expected: When Your Child Becomes the Independent Thinker You Raised them to Be
- Psychedelics and Therapy: Healing Through a New Lens
- Embracing the Unwelcome: How “Bad” Feelings Can Help
- Helping Kids Find Their Footing: Elizabeth Galasso, LICSW
- The Power of Integrative Healing: Hannah Braune-Friedman
- Mindfulness and Meditation in Practice: Michele Topel
- 5 Tips for Coping with Compulsive Behaviors
- When the Doctor Won’t Listen: Cognitive Tips for Chronic Pain Management
- A Meditation for Challenging Relationships
- Mind-Body Approaches for Racial Justice Solidarity
- Addressing Childhood Trauma as an Adult
- “They’ll Be Fine”: Childhood Trauma, Effects & Treatment
- How to Treat Anxiety
- What Coronavirus Can Teach Us About Growth & Healing
- COVID-19 and Managing Stress
- Grieving in the Modern World
- Mind-Body Approaches to Trauma Recovery
- Using the Sacral Chakra to Engage with your Sexuality
- 3 Simple Reminders That Being Single is More Than Okay
- A Compassionate Response to the Election
- The Great Outdoors
- Feel Balanced This Fall Season
- How To Feel Centered
- Do I Need Brainspotting?
- The Art of Beading
- Tai Chi at The Viva Center – Monday nights 7:00-8:00pm
- What is EMDR?
- Optimal Living Series-Nutritional Wellness
- Sari Pledge and Empowerment Workshop
- Wellness Wednesday: Neurofeedback with Melanie Shapiro
- Power to the People
- Category: Healing Stories
- Getting Back To Normal? Redefining Expectations Post-Quarantine
- Disability & Psychotherapy
- The Truth About Racial Trauma
- The Power of Music Therapy
- Treating Addiction With EMDR
- To Dye or Not to Dye? Dr. Julie Lopez on the Difficulties and Joys of Going Gray
- Reclaiming Your Sexual Self After Trauma, ft. Alina McClerklin, LICSW
- The (Easy) Science Behind 3 Brain-Based Therapies
- Healing
- Another amazing EMDR story…
- Category: Holistic Professionals Group
- Category: Mindful Monday
- Category: Optimal Living
- Changing the Narrative Can Change Your Life: How EMDR Rewires Deeply Held Beliefs
- Grappling with Grief and Loss
- Accepting a Changing World: Moving Beyond the Resurgence
- Rewriting Your Relationship Rules: Exploring Non-Monogamy
- Multilayered Therapeutic Healing from Trauma and Oppression: Raven Jenerson
- Healing the Wounds of Addiction and Race-Based Trauma: Teayra Turner
- Reflective Note-taking for Racial Justice Allies
- No Holiday Hugs: How can you cope with lack of touch?
- Self-Care for Caregivers During COVID-19
- Trauma-Informed Care in the Foster System
- Brain-Based Therapy 101
- The Benefits of Online Therapy
- Wellness Resources for the Coronavirus
- Healing Trauma Through Yoga
- What Does It Mean to Be Triggered?
- When Help Causes Harm: The Impact of Medical PTSD
- The Queer Mental Health Movement
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Unhealthy Relationship Patterns
- Mental Health in the Black Community
- Grieving the Loss of a Pet
- The Power of Gardening to Improve Mental Health
- The Power of Food to Affect Your Mood
- Mental Health on TV
- Self-Care For Caregivers
- Not So Happy Holidays
- Do I Need to Turn Off the News to be Happy?
- Have You Reached Your Stress Threshold?
- Making It Through a Trauma Anniversary
- 3 Signs Your Mental Health is Impacting Your Work
- Keep Your Job From Defining You
- Should You Try Animal-Assisted Therapy?
- Why Aging Makes Us Smarter
- What Do Our Nightmares Mean?
- The Connection Between Anxiety & Sleep Disturbances
- Could I Benefit From Sex Therapy?
- What is Bisexual Erasure?
- How to Accomplish Your Goals (For Real This Time)
- Which is Better, Idealism or Cynicism?
- Mastering the Art of the Difficult Conversation
- How to Get Relief from Chronic Pain
- How Running Enhances Brain Functioning
- The Physical Symptoms of Mental Illness
- What is Trauma-Informed Care?
- Increase Your Productivity…by Taking a Break
- 4 Mental Health and Therapy Myths, Debunked
- Thriving During a Major Job (or Life) Transition, ft. Lea Sloan, M Ed, LPC, BCC
- Beating Workplace Burnout
- Body Techniques to Decrease Stress
- 5 Easy Ways to Reduce Stress and Improve Health As You Age
- Staying (Or Becoming) Close With Our Siblings As We Age
- Our Brains On Sleep: The Work Our Minds Accomplish While We Rest, ft. Melanie Shapiro, LICSW
- The Psychological Effects of Stereotyping: A Study Through the Lens of Asexuality
- How to Feel More Rested (and Less Stressed) on a Busy Schedule
- Keeping Intimacy Alive in Long-Term Relationships
- Mood Boosters for the 5 Senses
- Reiki Myths: True or False?
- 5 Proven Ways Nature Improves Your Health & Wellbeing
- How to Survive (and Thrive) in an Unhealthy Work Environment
- Optimal Living: Physical Wellness
- Sleeping Beauty?
- Meditation as Preventative Medicine
- Take a Knee
- The Choice is Yours
- Who’s Feeling Stress?
- Mindfulness for better sleep
- Refraining?
- Optimal Living is a path, not a destination…
- The WHOLE is worth more than the sum of its parts…
- Category: Wellness Wednesday
- Mindfulness March
- Wellness Wednesday: Psychotherapy & Neurofeedback with Monica Freedman LICSW
- Wellness Wednesday: Lori Atwood – Fearless Finance, LLC
- Wellness Wednesday: The Power of Having a Clear Vision
- Wellness Wednesday: Art Therapy with Lina Assad Cates
- Wellness Wednesday: Mindfulness with Candida DeLuise
- Wellness Wednesday: Gimme A Break!
- Wellness Wednesday: Healing the Body to Heal the Mind with Tim Rogers
- Wellness Wednesday: Setting Goals & Being Our Authentic Selves with Cheryl Hughes
- Wellness Wednesday: Viva “Sun-Day” and the Importance of a Multifaceted Approach
- Wellness Wednesday: Expressing Creatively with Lina Assad Cates
- Wellness Wednesday: Emotional Energy & the Transition to Motherhood with Janine Donnelly
- Wellness Wednesday: Increasing Our Enjoyment of Life, with Cathy Canfield
- Wellness Wednesday: Becoming Aware of Your Energy & Connecting to Nature with Marie Rodriguez
- Wellness Wednesday: Mindfulness with Melanie Shapiro
- Wellness Wednesday: Confidence with Emily Cooper
- Wellness Wednesday: Confidence with Julie Lopez
- Wellness Wednesday: Confidence with Lea Sloan
