12 Ways To Practice Mindfulness For Teen Anxiety
Guest post by Stephanie Gutzmer, Au.D., E-RYT A mindfulness practice increases your ability to regulate emotions, decrease stress, and reduce anxiety and depression. If you’re an anxious teen (or someone who loves one), it sounds like a perfect solution, right? And it is! However, mindfulness for teen anxiety can begin with some resistance, just like […]
5 Coping Strategies to Help You Deal With the Grief and Loss of a Relationship
Guest blog post by Martha (Marty) Dennen MA, LCPC, SEP At some point in life, you will experience a loss. Unfortunately, no one is excluded from experiencing losses in life. One of these will likely be the loss of an important relationship. Experiencing this grief and loss of a relationship can be one of life’s […]
3 Ways Childhood Trauma Can Affect Your Adult Relationships
Most of us have a sense that childhood trauma affects our adult relationships. After all, you probably have heard another person joke about how you married your father (or mother)? An insurance company even riffed on this in their advertising! Jokes aside, how exactly does childhood trauma affect your adult relationships? And while we’re at […]
Can You Save An Unhappy Marriage?
It can be hard to know if your marital dis-ease is just a bump in the road or a sign of a bigger, underlying problem. Understanding the different phases your marriage will go through can help you answer the question, “Can you save an unhappy marriage?” Stages Of Marriage According to Dr. Susan Campbell, a […]
What It Means When Depression And Anxiety Team Up
Guest blog post by Judy Petrushka, LCSW, SEP, CDVP When depression and anxiety team up, you can feel stuck. For some people, the experience may be a sense of ping-ponging. That is, first they have the racing heart, racing thoughts, fear, and possibly panic attacks of anxiety. Then they experience the pervasive shut down, […]