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In the final blog post for this week on managing stress and anxiety, I wanted to focus on the causes and symptoms of stress and anxiety. This last blog post highlights a health guide article that focus on just this! https://www.helpguide.org/articles/stress/stress-symptoms-signs-and-causes.htm

Finals week has been happening all across America these last few weeks and continues on. For this week's blog post I wanted to focus on different articles that deal with handling stress. This second article is by WebMD. his article focuses on not only how to manage stress but all how to reduce it. https://www.webmd.com/balance/guide/tips-to-control-stress

Finals week has been happening all across America these last few weeks and continues on. For this week's blog post I wanted to focus on different articles that deal with handling stress. This first article is but the CDC. The article is entitled coping with stress, and it gives tips as to how to deal with stress in a healthy...[ read more ]

This video below continues on our journey of validating emotions. Once again it focuses on the importance of validating emotions and what it means to do so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woOft9R6g7o  

Psychology Today Article on what it means to validate emotions and how to do that for a loved one! This article follows this series trend on emotional maturity and this week's topic of validating emotions. Make sure to stay tuned for a video on validating emotions and next week's topic of emotional maturity! https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pieces-mind/201204/understanding-validation-way-communicate-acceptance

Being able to validate one's emotions is a key aspect of emotional maturity. Validating emotion is, as described by DC VA counseling and psychotherapy, "the process of learning about, understanding, and expressing acceptance of another person's emotional experience... Emotional validation is distinguished from emotional invalidation, in which another person's emotional experiences are rejected, ignored, or judged." As you can see emotional validation is all...[ read more ]

https://youtu.be/dkcnvGZOck4 This video above highlights both negative and positive physical effects on emotions. Some of these are a stretch., for example dying of a "broken heart", but the base idea is true: Negative emotions take an enormous toll on all of our bodies. Though it may not seem like it ruminating in our sad emotions and not taking the steps...[ read more ]

In my last post, I highlighted the physical aspects of depression. However, what many people may not be aware of are the physical effects strong emotions may also have on the body. One does not need to have a fully developed mental disorder to feel the lasting effects of situational depression or some other type of prolonged emotion not linked...[ read more ]

In this two-week series on the importance of therapy and why it is needed I have decided to share another article from Dr. Ryan Howes (PhD, ABPP). That discusses the importance of therapy and why we should all go. The purpose of these articles and videos I send out is to inform our readers, from multiple different perspectives, as to...[ read more ]

Hi friends!  We are living in an unprecedented time, where we are all trying to stay safe and protect ourselves and our loved ones.  Counseling has changed a lot in a short time, as many people have needed to move to online sessions, or telehealth.  Having counseling sessions online can feel very overwhelming or intimidating, and of course many of...[ read more ]