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Navigating Difficult Workplace Dynamics
Dominated by what we’ve come to know as hustle culture, American workplaces often consist of high pressure environments, excessive work hours, and unclear or creeping job roles, and the pressure to be self-sufficient and prove your worth through productivity and material gains.
Ask a Couple Therapist: How Do I Build Healthy Relationship Habits?
The most important effort we put into our relationships are the small things we do on a day-to-day basis. Communicating care and affection. Making space for each other’s needs. Spending time enjoying each other’s company.
5 Key Benefits of Group Therapy for Your Mental Health
Group therapy can help you gain insight from people who have dealt with similar situations and can help to remind you that you’re not alone. Hearing other people talk about going through something that you’ve gone through can help lessen the stigma around your experience.
Unlinking Self Worth from Productivity
Self worth is our view on ourselves and how we do or don’t see ourselves as worthy of love, kindness, respect and rest, like anyone else. But it can be hard to connect to. People often find the easiest way to feel any sort of worth in themselves is to be impressively productive.
Beyond “No Is a Complete Sentence”: Setting Boundaries Skillfully for Healthy Relationships
No is a complete sentence. But it’s not the only way, the “best” way, or the “right” way to set a boundary. We need different approaches to setting boundaries in different situations because there is no “one size fits all” solution for relationships.
Navigating a Fraught Body Image at Thanksgiving Dinner
A holiday with food at the center can be incredibly daunting for anyone managing body image issues. Those struggling with or recovering from an eating disorder can find themselves triggered, or unable to focus on the holiday celebration. They’re too busy in survival mode to enjoy the chance to gather with loved ones.
It’s Open Enrollment! How To Find A Plan That Covers Out-Of-Network Therapy
All About Therapy | Advice from a Therapist Confused about how to access mental health care? Learn more about how to find a plan that covers out-of-network therapy! Have you been putting off therapy because you're struggling to find someone in-network? Or you do have...
Four Somatic Therapy Exercises For When You’re Feeling Anxious
Exercises are used in somatic therapy to help strengthen your awareness of the mind-body connection and to express emotions that are causing you distress. Incorporating the body into your work in therapy can help you develop awareness of both your mental and physical experiences with anxiety or other disorders.
Alternatives to Calling 911: How To Help A Suicidal Friend
When a friend comes to you with suicidal thoughts, it can be scary. You're grateful they came to you, and of course you want to help. But you're not a trained mental health professional. Maybe you're afraid of saying the wrong thing and making the problem worse. Maybe...
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