Mental Health

Helping you and your kids navigate a range of mental health struggles, from anxiety to autism to depression and everything in between.

How to Handle Conflict When You Hate Confrontation | Learning how to handle conflict at work, with friends, and in relationships can be tricky, especially when you're a people pleaser who hates confrontation. Conflict management can be uncomfortable, but learning effective conflict resolution strategies is important and it can be cathartic as it allows you to release pain, establish boundaries, and create stronger relationships. Click for our best conflict management strategies!

How to Handle Conflict When You Hate Confrontation (9 Tips)

How to Stop Complaining About Everything: 8 Tips that Help | Do you need to go on a 'complaint cleanse'? While it's normal to vent our frustration from time to time, it can easily become a habit. Misery loves company after all, and we often complain as a form of social connection. The trouble is, the more we complain, the more we keep ourselves stuck in negative thought patterns, which perpetuates chronic stress in our bodies. It can also damage relationships. Click for tips to complain less!

How to Stop Complaining About Everything: 8 Tips that Help

Seven 5 am Morning Routine Ideas for a Productive Day | The '5 am Club' is a concept started by Robin Sharma to maximize productivity and improve your physical and mental health. The idea is to spend the first hour of your day focusing on self-care without distraction, allowing you to lean into self-reflection and personal growth. In this post, we share tips for staying accountable to a 5 am wakeup, the benefits you can expect, and 7 morning routine ideas to help you achieve your goals.

7 5 am Morning Routine Ideas for a Productive Day

5 Somatic Therapy Exercises to Relieve Stress and Trauma | If you have symptoms of chronic stress or trauma stored in your body, this post is for you. Somatic therapy is a body-focused approach that allows you to visit traumatic memories & learn how to balance your nervous system & fight-flight-or-freeze stress response. It provides a deeper mind-body connection, builds emotional resilience, helps you to identify your triggers, & uses healthy coping techniques to relieve stress and trauma.

13 Somatic Therapy Exercises to Relieve Stress and Trauma

16 Best and Worst Foods for Your Nervous System | When you feel stressed and overwhelmed, it's common to reach for your favorite comfort foods as a way to self-soothe. Emotional eating is a common form or self-regulation, but did you know that your food choices may be making your stress worse in the long run? In this post, we identify foods that make your nervous system work overtime, with an even bigger list of health options to reach for to calm your nerves and help you feel your best.

16 Best and Worst Foods for Your Nervous System

How to Get Started with the MIND Diet: 15 Tips & Foods to Eat | The MIND diet combines the Mediterranean diet and DASH diet to protect and strengthen the brain against dementia, Alzheimer's, and other cognitive diseases as we age. In this post, we explore the details behind the diet, and share a food list, outlining what you should and should not eat for optimal brain health. Click for more info and bookmark this post and refer back to it when making your grocery list!

How to Get Started with the MIND Diet: 15 Tips & Foods to Eat

How to Practice Radical Acceptance | Radical acceptance originates from Buddhism and was originally used in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) by Marsha Linehan. Tara Brach has since written a popular book on the subject and RA is used to treat many mental health disorders. RA involves accepting your emotions, thoughts, people, and life's events to build emotional resilience, move forward, and accept things as they are. Click for tips to get started!

How to Practice Radical Acceptance: 10 Tips that Help

9 Simple Ways to Boost Your Endorphins | Endorphins give us a rush of happiness that makes us feel on top of the world, but you don't have to chase a runners high to experience this feeling -- there are lots of endorphin boosters you can try to improve your mood that don't involve exercise (chocolate meditation, anyone?!). If you want to strengthen your immunity, improve your self-esteem, reduce stress and anxiety, and lower pain and inflammation, give the ideas in this post a try!

9 Simple Ways to Boost Your Endorphins

How to Grey Rock a Narcissist | If you've never heard of The Grey Rock Method, this post is a must-read, especially if you're looking for tips on how to deal with a narcissist. When dealing with a toxic parent, partner, boss, or friend, the grey rock method theorizes that if you withhold you reactions and disengage, the narcissist causing emotional harm will become bored and their attempts to manipulate you will dissipate. Click for all the details plus tips to implement this technique!

How to Grey Rock a Narcissist: 7 Tips & Ideas

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