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Balancing Your Chakras (Part 2)

Balancing Your Chakras (Part 2)

This post is the second part of the two-part blog series titled, “Balancing Your Chakras” by graduate student intern, Sarah Miles. This post describes how to balance the heart, throat, third eye, and crown chakras. Read along to learn how the Chakras can be utilized as wonderful tool to become more self-aware, to conceptualize our needs on many levels, and to understand all of the different drives and motivations within us.

Creating Healthy Boundaries

Creating Healthy Boundaries

In this post by Dushyanthi Niyangoda, we explore how to establish and maintain healthy boundaries

Motivating Your Child

Motivating Your Child

When it comes to kids, if the task doesn’t immediately catch their attention or look enjoyable they probably won’t do it willingly. Resistance or defiance typically leads to a very frustrated or angry parent because now you’re arguing with your kid. So parents, let’s talk about ways to motivate your kids to do their chores or anything else that they don’t want to do. But first, let’s unpack the concept of “motivation.”

Balancing Your Chakras (Part 1)

Balancing Your Chakras (Part 1)

If you are interested in New Age Spirituality or Self-Help, you have probably heard about the Chakras - the 7 energy centers that run from the base of the spine to the top of the head that are said to connect our physical existence with the realm of the emotional, mental, and spiritual. In this first post, Sarah Miles, introduces the first 3 Chakras and discuss how to find balance within each.

The Power of Positive Affirmations

The Power of Positive Affirmations

One choice/one resolution you can make today, is to say something positive about yourself every day. Positive affirmations are positive phrases which you repeat to yourself which describe how you want to be. Over time, they may help you to overwrite negative beliefs that you hold about yourself by replacing those limiting beliefs with them with positive thoughts that instill confidence and positivity. In this blog, graduate student Intern, Dushyanthi Niyangoda, helps readers to explore the power of positive affirmations.

Help! I’m Trapped Inside My Head: An Intro to CBT

Help! I’m Trapped Inside My Head: An Intro to CBT

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in simple terms is learning about how your thoughts impact your emotions and behaviors. CBT is a empirically supported treatment that works well for clients struggling with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, trauma and more. In this blog post, associate therapist, Jade Shapiro, LCSW-C, explores the three elements of CBT and provides readers with questions that they can utilize to implant CBT in everyday life.

Meditation Mindfulness to Improve Mental Health

Meditation Mindfulness to Improve Mental Health

This blog post, written by graduate student intern, Dushyanthi Niyangoda, explores the definitions, origins, and benefits that meditation mindfulness yields and how these benefits may impact mental health.

The Impact of Mental Health on Hygiene Struggles

The Impact of Mental Health on Hygiene Struggles

Whether it’s doing dishes in a timely manner or showering regularly—there is a lot of shame around not being able to keep up with your hygiene. Hygiene is a moralized topic in our society—meaning we often view those who struggle with hygiene as less than or failing in some way. This post by Abby Smith, LGPC, explores how these judgments fail to recognize the impact of mental health on hygiene.

Back to Basics

Back to Basics

When you’re struggling with your mental health, being told to think about your nutrition, hydration, or sleep can feel patronizing or like a non-essential. However, when some of your most basic needs aren’t being met, it can make dealing with any mental health issues even harder. . It might not mean everything is better, but instead that your hunger, hydration, and sleep are not contributing factors.