Live Better Each Day
Rather than diving in and changing everything about our lives with unrealistic resolutions, completing a couple of baby step micro-habits makes us feel more accomplished and better over time. Since these micro-habits can feel incredibly natural and easier to accomplish, it causes us to feel more hopeful and determined in trying them! 1. […]
Dating During a Pandemic
Oh COVID-19…the Valentine’s date that we never asked for. Even a romantic Hallmark movie wouldn’t have been able to predict the overwhelming time single people have been dealing with this past year. Just when you thought dating couldn’t get any more complex, the coronavirus decides to pay the world an unwanted visit. Loneliness, […]
Hello 2021, Yikes!
Let’s be honest, it’s time to leave New Year’s resolutions in 2020. As we come upon February and we attempt to recalibrate, we all know that folks who made New Year’s resolutions are going to go off the wagon by Valentine’s Day! Think about the countless times you’ve heard someone rave about their New […]
Managing Sleep after an Election
Wow…can you believe it has been 11 days since our presidential nominee was finalized? Feels like months ago! This election cycle has been a historically stressful one with a nail-biting finish. Throughout the past couple of weeks, people on both sides of the political spectrum were losing countless hours of sleep from election stress, and […]
Generating Acceptance with Uncertainty
Gosh…we are almost coming to the end of this extremely tumultuous year and wondering about how we want to try to make sense of how we can integrate this pandemic into our lives. We have been incredibly challenged and have faced some variation of uncertainty, whether that be the pandemic, politics, economic instability, work schedules […]
Sleep Disorders and Neurofeedback
In order for our bodies to perform at optimal levels, we need to maintain a healthy sleep schedule. Although millions of people suffered from sleep disorders before the pandemic, COVID-19 has introduced new stressors causing negative effects on sleep schedules. Good sleep helps regulate our immune system and rests our bodies from the chaos of […]
7 Activities for Strengthening Brain Health
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic recession has truly thrown us for a loop and as a result, we have dramatically decreased emotional safety, financial insecurity, and a HUGE loss of a sense of well-being. The stressors that the pandemic created have sparked brain conditions in people across the globe, and have posed extra […]
Grief and Loss
As a Psychologist, the biggest theme in our offices this week is the grief that people are feeling over the loss of a cultural icon, Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg. Her unexpected, sudden death is re-triggering the loss of loved ones for many of us. There are a number of changes we are not ready for […]
Suicide Prevention and Awareness
This pandemic of COVID-19 has brought stress to us in innumerable ways: loss of income, loss of health, loss of physical safety, and immense loss of community and social support. All these factors lead to enhancing already existing risk factors that can tend to be present for a feeling of hopelessness and suicide. The KEY […]