Mindful Eating Exercise: Back to the Basics
When we are born into this world, we have no expectations about food except we eat when we are hungry and stop when we are full. Yet, by the time we are toddlers we are programmed to believe that our meals should be specified to three times a day. Even if we are not hungry […]
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, […]
Resilience
rəˈzilyəns/ noun 1. the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. 2. the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity. Resilience is that ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back stronger than ever. Rather than letting failure overcome them and drain their […]
Taking Care of Yourself While Caregiving
Caring for someone with a health condition or serious illness is very challenging. Even more challenging can be caring for yourself while caregiving for another person. It seems like we have a natural instinct to do whatever it takes to care for our loved ones. We get a surge of energy that keeps our bodies […]