Mental Health

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

7 Self Help Strategies for Postpartum Anxiety | We've all heard of postpartum depression, but did you know that many new moms suffer from heightened anxiety after childbirth? The symptoms are similar to PPD, with PPA causing excessive worry about things that are unlikely to happen. This post outlines the symptoms and causes of postpartum anxiety, with helpful tips, tools, coping strategies, and lifestyle habits that can help feel better sooner.

7 Self Help Strategies for Postpartum Anxiety

11 Strategies to Heal Your Relationship with Food | If you want to know how to have a healthy relationship with food, but don't know how to change on your own, this post is a good resource. Whether you're trying to break up with diet culture, change restrictive eating patterns, or just want to develop a better understanding of how to create a healthy meal plan without cutting out major food groups and feeling deprived so you end up bingeing, these tips and tools will help!

11 Tips to Help You Heal Your Relationship with Food

8 Self Help Strategies for Generalized Anxiety Disorder | If you or someone you love suffer from GAD, and you're looking for tips, tools, and coping strategies to help compliment therapy at home, this post is just what you need. We're sharing simple lifestyle change you can make today - including easy ideas you can add to your daily routine - to help ease anxious thoughts and stressful reactions, helping you feel like your best self each and everyday.

8 Self Help Strategies for Generalized Anxiety Disorder

How to Challenge Cognitive Distortions | This post is a great beginners guide to cognitive distortions - what they are, how they affect kids and adults, and how these types of irrational thought patterns can causes/worsen the symptoms of anxiety and depression. We've defined the different types of cognitive distortions, with examples of each, and we've also provided tips and strategies to teach you how to identify negative thoughts as they occur, and how to challenge them in a healthy way.

How to Challenge Cognitive Distortions: 7 Tips that Help

10 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Activities for Anxiety | When treating generalized anxiety and other anxiety disorders, CBT is the gold standard when it comes to therapy. In this post, we share the basics for beginners - What is CBT? Why and how does it work? - and we've also compiled a list of cognitive behavior therapy worksheets and activities for kids and adults alike! These can be used in therapy, in the classroom, or at home to help replace negative thoughts with positive ones.

10 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Activities for Anxiety

How to Cope with High Functioning Depression | Do you struggle with mild signs of depression? Perhaps you feel sad, struggle with sleep, have low self-esteem, and trouble with productivity, but these symptoms don't interfere with your ability to perform day to day activities. While not a diagnosis per se, HFD is real, and we're sharing things you can do (and stop doing) on the daily to help you cope so you can show up as your best self each and every day.

How to Cope with High Functioning Depression: 7 Tips that Help

7 Habits that Make OCD Worse (and What To Do Instead) | If you or someone you love suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder, this post is a great resource. We're sharing an overview of this mental health disorder - signs, symptoms, and causes, common obsessions and compulsions, etc. - and we dive into daily habits that can make obsessions, compulsions, and intrusive thoughts worse instead of better. Click to learn which of your habits are negatively reinforcing your fears and phobias.

7 Habits that Make OCD Worse & How to Cope

10 Common Parenting Mistakes To Avoid (And What To Do Instead) | If you promised yourself that you would learn from your parents' mistakes when you had kids of your own, but still catch yourself doing or saying things you have tried hard to avoid, you are not alone. And you are not your mother or father! This list of common parenting mistakes also includes recommendations on how to overcome these struggles so you don't end up repeating them again in the future.

10 Common Parenting Mistakes To Avoid (And What To Do Instead)

How to Support a Loved One with Anxiety | If your child, family member, or friend suffers from an anxiety disorder, and you're looking for tips to help them cope with panic attacks, overwhelming thoughts, and handling everyday stress, this post is just what you need. You'll learn the signs, symptoms, causes, and types of anxiety, plus practical tips to help you support a loved one through difficult emotions and situations. We've also included a list of things people with anxiety wish you knew!

How to Support a Loved One with Anxiety: 9 Tips that Help

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