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The Intersection of LGBTQIA+ Identity & Mental Health
Happy Pride Month! Pride is not only a vibrant celebration of love, diversity, and acceptance but also symbolizes a crucial movement for mental health awareness and advocacy within the LGBTQIA+ community. For many queer individuals, the journey towards self-acceptance and public acknowledgment of their identity is intertwined with significant mental health struggles. Discrimination, stigma, and…
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Beyond the Spectrum: Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder
As we enjoy April’s flowers and showers, we also want to highlight that April is Autism Awareness Month! Having a month dedicated to Autism awareness allows us to increase our society’s understanding and acceptance of Autism Spectrum Disorder. It’s an opportunity to promote inclusion, support individuals on the spectrum, and educate the public about the…
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How Striving for Perfectionism Can Impact Your Mental Health
As humans, how we connect and relate to one another can be crucial to our well-being. Since the beginning of our creation as a species, humans have relied on social interactions for survival. Cooperation within social groups historically provided protection from predators, assistance in hunting and gathering food, sharing of knowledge and skills, and support…
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Happiness is a Habit
Happy New Year! To many of us, the new year welcomes the idea of having a fresh start and a clean slate. With the past year behind us, we feel like we have the opportunity to begin a new chapter in life. This can help us feel hopeful and optimistic about the year ahead of…
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Coping with Grief During the Holidays
The holidays can be a challenging time for many reasons. They can involve the stress of planning, hosting, and reuniting with others that you haven’t seen in a while. However, the burdens of the holidays heavily weigh when accompanied by grieving the loss of a loved one. Although we cherish the memories we share with…
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What Is Masking: Understanding Masking in ASD
As I rise, in the morning, I’ve noticed that the air feels chilly and crispy. The leaves on trees are blossoming into beautiful shades of yellow, orange, red and brown before gently falling and filling the yards and streets of my neighborhood. I’ve found myself digging through tubs of sweatshirts and hoodies that I retired…
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Mastering Emotional Intelligence: 3 Keys to a Better Life
Whenever someone mentions the word ‘Intelligence,’ what is the first thing that you think of? For many people, it might be someone’s IQ, grades in school, or having a vast amount of knowledge in a field of expertise. While these are all examples of intelligence, there are also many different categories that are used to…
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6 Tips to Cope with Seasonal Depression
Am I the only one who feels like this winter has been so rough? And it’s not even because of the cold, per se. I don’t hate the cold, and if it snows, you’ll find me bundled up in my backyard kicking up fresh powder with my dogs – one of my ultimate happy places. But…
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Your Feelings Are Not Always the Facts
One of the most important takeaways from 2022, for myself and many others, has been this: Your feelings are NOT always the facts. This is one of the more challenging concepts to learn on your path to healing – at least it certainly was for me. When you struggle with anxiety, depression, PTSD, eating disorders,…
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Poodle Science: Accepting Who We Are
Diet Culture Did you know that the diet industry is a $70 billion, that’s billion with a B, industry? Did you also know that 95% of diets fail? I’ll let that sink in for a second! People spend more than $70 billion in a year on a product that will fail more than 95% of…
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Chameleon: People Pleasers & Fawning Explained
I really wish that we were talking about Pascal, the chameleon from Rapunzel. He is one of my favorite Disney characters! Has anybody ever discovered a stuffed animal Pascal? I’ve looked high and low but cannot find one anywhere! So if you know where I can buy one, please let me know. Clearly it’s a…
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“I’m So OCD About It.” The Harm of a Common Phrase
**Trigger Warning** I am quite guilty about having talked like this in the past: “I’m so OCD about it.” About what? How clean I like my house to be, how I organize my closet, etc. I can even recount many times at the gym where I would be in the middle of a fitness class…
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Boundaries vs. Threats
Let’s break it down, shall we? BOUNDARIES Boundaries are limits that we set with other people or sometimes, even ourselves. The point of setting a boundary is to protect our own physical, social, and emotional health. Setting boundaries with others can look like: -“Thank you for the invitation, but I can’t go out this weekend.”…
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5 Tips for Finding the Right Therapist
It’s happening – we are starting to deal with a mental health pandemic as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. I am seeing it in my own patients, I am talking about it with my colleagues, I am seeing it in my friends and family. This pandemic has been going on for half the year,…
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The Predator
A few weeks ago, I finished reading Abigail Pesta’s book, The Girls, a book about the USA gymnasts who took down sexual predator Larry Nassar back in 2018. If you are not familiar with the case, Larry Nassar was a highly esteemed doctor at Michigan State University. He also served as the doctor for the USA…
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