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  • 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
    • 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
    • I stopped stereotyping hypnosis, & you should too
    • Team Work: Holistic Professionals Working together for the Client
  • Category: Mindful Monday
    • Mindfulness Series: Part 2
    • Mindfulness Series: Part 1
  • 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

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