I read a post on Reddit last night about a person who had the day of their suicide planned. The day arrived, they attended their college classes, completed a few other tasks, and went to a restaurant for a bowl of ramen – their last meal.    When presented with the bowl of ramen, they…

Imagine you and your partner are sitting facing each other across a small table. The table is completely clean with no clutter or objects, you can reach across and touch hands, you can laugh and talk without distraction from any junk that might be between you.   Now imagine that table is piled up with…

This blog may not be about what you think it’s about. Maybe you think we are going to chat about how the bodies and lives on social media are fake and not to be compared to your actual, unfiltered existence. Nope. This blog is about the social media influencers who shine a light on the…

Self care is very important. It’s way more than a buzzword. You have to keep your emotional and mental bucket full so that you can pour it out for your kids, your spouse or other people you love. In the body, the heart pumps blood to itself first – why? If it doesn’t, it can’t…

ADHD is often overlooked in women and girls. Traditionally thought to be a male issue, females would get a diagnosis of anxiety and/or depression because they typically don’t present with hyperactivity. But times have changed and the ADHD diagnosis has gotten more nuanced. Now there are three types: the hyperactive disorder we know, inattentive, and…

PTSD comes about after a single traumatic event or prolonged exposure to a traumatic environment. You can end up with PTSD even if the traumatic event didn’t happen to you and you just witnessed it. Some common examples of a single traumatic event are car accidents, rape, childbirth, or seeing another person being traumatized. Prolonged…

Sometimes mental health in the elderly can be overlooked. Their spouse died. They haven’t been able to see family during the pandemic, and not being as tech-savvy as the younger generations, it’s been harder to keep in touch. They are aging and can’t do what they used to be able to do – of course…

Your spouse. You married him or her with the expectation that your relationship would last forever. You would get through anything. You would grow old together. But, did you and your spouse make a plan for how that would happen? Did you talk about how you would navigate rough waters together? Parent together? Argue with…

Anxiety is sneaky – you have normal anxiety which prompts you to make sure the coffee pot is off, and the door is locked. Then you have anxiety that crosses the line from normal to abnormal, where you have constant racing thoughts about everything that could possibly go wrong in every aspect of your life.…

Sense-making is a vital skill that enables us to rationalize the world we live in, and what we are experiencing means. Sometimes that skill can become obscured when we are in the midst of an emotional crisis or a bad situation in our personal or professional lives. It’s hard to know at times what is…