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Postpartum Anxiety
You’ve just had a baby, and everyone is so excited for you, but you feel like this wonderful time is nothing but stress. You’re expected to host guests and well-wishers who want to see the baby and congratulate you, but … Continue reading
Posted in Postpartum Depression
Tagged baby blues, postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, PPA, therapist
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Apps Don’t Help Your Relationship Issues
Lots of relationship apps have been developed in recent years that claim to help couples connect and bond. These apps offer suggestions for date nights, send daily relationship questions, or help couples understand each other’s emotional needs. I applaud every … Continue reading
Posted in Couples Therapy
Tagged apps for couples, apps to improve relationships, couples therapy, marriage counseling, relationships
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Dealing with Anger
We often hear of people having “anger issues.” But anger is considered a secondary emotion, generally caused by a primary emotion that is under the surface. The “anger iceberg” can hide deep-seated emotions that can extend as far back as … Continue reading
Posted in General Self Help
Tagged anger, anger management, controlling anger, counseling, psychotherapy
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The Emotional Toll of Infertility
Infertility can be heartbreaking and emotionally exhausting. Although men and women cope differently with infertility, both feel the emotional impact. Couples should turn to each other for support in order to ease the emotional toll and maintain mental health as … Continue reading
Posted in Infertility
Tagged dealing with infertility, infertility, infertility counseling, therapy
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When Anxiety Is Not Just Nervousness
If you have been experiencing anxiety for an extended period of time or have severe anxiety, there may be deep-seated causes that are best addressed with a psychotherapist, who can help you discover those causes and resolve them. Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety
Tagged anxiety, managing anxiety, mental health, nervousness, therapy
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Making New Year’s Resolutions Stick
Our culture has a long tradition of setting New Year’s Resolutions. This is a wonderful idea, but few people follow it—and fewer feel like they’ve actually succeeded in those resolutions. Why is that? The biggest reason is that they have … Continue reading
Posted in General Self Help
Tagged counseling, making a New Year's resolution, new year's goals, New Year's resolution, therapy
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Technology Drain: How to Combat the Negative Effects of Tech
Advancements in technology have transformed American society so dramatically in the last 20 years that we often forget that, just about 20 years ago, most people didn’t have internet in their houses, let alone in their pockets! It is really … Continue reading
Posted in General Self Help
Tagged internet and your mental health, negative effects of technology, social media, technology drain, therapy
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Getting Ready for Holiday Family Events
One of the best things about the holidays is getting together with family. But one of the most stressful things about the holidays can also be getting together with family. We have all experienced this. We love our family members, … Continue reading
Posted in General Self Help
Tagged coping with family, counseling, family drama, handling the holidays, therapy
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Recognizing and Dealing with Generational Trauma in Your Family
Generational trauma, also called intergenerational trauma, refers to psychological wounds that are passed down through family lines, often unconsciously. The recognition that trauma can be passed down through generations is fairly new. Researchers studying the children of Holocaust survivors observed … Continue reading
Posted in General Self Help
Tagged counseling, dealing with generational trauma, generational trauma, intergenerational trauma, recognizing generational trauma, therapy
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Friendship and Your Mental Health
There is no doubt that having friendships is good for your mental health. We don’t need studies to prove it, since we see evidence all around us, but there are nonetheless studies that demonstrate the benefits of friendship, not only … Continue reading
Posted in General Self Help
Tagged benefits of friendship, friendship and mental health, friendship and physical health, making friends as an adult
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