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 Parent a Highly Sensitive Child | Raising a HSC can make your parenting journey extra challenging. The signs and traits of highly sensitive kids can vary, but often include symptoms like being highly reactive, intuitive, and empathetic, sensory sensitivities to lights and sounds, perfectionism, rigidity, etc. This post is full of helpful tips on how to help a child with big emotions, allowing them to excel at home and in school, sleep more peacefully, and feel supported and loved.

How to Parent a Highly Sensitive Child: 10 Tips and Ideas

Orthorexia Treatment 101: 8 Tips and Ideas to Try | Checking labels, reviewing menu items, and researching the health benefits of certain foods are good for your health, but can become obsessive to some, leading to an eating disorder called Orthorexia. If you have become so obsessed with clean eating that it effects your daily life, this post will explain what Orthorexia is, common symptoms and causes, and several forms of Orthorexia treatment options available to you and your loved ones.

Orthorexia Treatment 101: 8 Tips and Ideas to Try

How to Manage Morning Anxiety: 10 Tips | Morning anxiety isn’t a formal diagnosis per se, but rather an unpleasant stressor that creates feelings of dread, panic, and stress first thing in the morning. It typically dissipates as the day wears on, but it can cause nighttime anticipatory anxiety, leading to physical symptoms and panic attacks. In this post, we share mental health tips and ideas to help manage morning stress, allowing you to feel more in calm and in control of your day.

How to Manage Morning Anxiety: 10 Tips and Hacks that Help

12 Best Productivity Apps to Increase Focus and Productivity | If you struggle to concentrate for long periods of time due to distractions like social media, email, and mindless scrolling, this post is just what you need to get back on track - and stay there! We've curated a list of the best productivity tools for iPhone and Android users that will help you create schedules, manage to-do lists, keep team members organized and on task, schedule brain breaks, and feel accomplished!

12 Best Productivity Apps to Increase Focus and Productivity

How to Stop Being a People Pleaser | If you want to know how NOT to be a people pleaser, this post is for you! With 10 tips and ideas from recovering people pleasers, you will learn telltale signs pleasing people is holding you back, as well as important self-help tips and hacks to allow you to advocate for yourself without guilt or shame. From learning to say no, to figuring out how to create boundaries, to learning how to stop apologizing, these self-improvement tips are just what you need!

How to Stop Being a People Pleaser: 10 Tips that Help

7 Parenting Mistakes that Make Childhood Anxiety Worse | If your son or daughter suffers from anxiety, you probably know the signs and symptoms of anxiety, have coping strategies to help calm their nervous system, and have calming tools at the ready, But did you know the things you say and do (or don't say and do) can sometimes worsen your child's anxiety? This post sheds light on common parenting mistakes that can make anxiety in kids worse instead of better.

7 Parenting Mistakes that Make Childhood Anxiety Worse

8 Best Habit Trackers to Help You Crush Your Goals | If you're trying to break bad habits and replace them with new ones to help you reach a specific goal, this post is for you! We're sharing the benefits of using daily habit trackers, and we've also curated the best habit trackers to keep your motivated and accountable. Whether you prefer apps, guided journals, bullet journals, or printables, there's a habit tracker waiting to help you make positive changes that last!

8 Best Habit Trackers to Help You Crush Your Goals

Autism Masking 101 | AKA 'autistic camouflaging', this type of masking involves hiding certain autistic traits to appear more neurotypical or “normal” to society. It's an autism coping strategy many use to fit in, making friends, advance their careers, and create and maintain relationships. While helpful, it can lead to autistic burnout, loss of identity, and other mental health concerns. This post includes the signs and symptoms and 8 tips to help you 'unmask' and accept yourself as you are.

Autism Masking 101: 17 Signs, Symptoms, and Tips to Help

How to Stop Catastrophizing: 7 Catastrophic Thinking Strategies | Do you have a habit of irrational thinking that magnifies a current situation to an extreme? You're not alone. While preparing for the worst may seem like a good coping strategy, this type of thinking increases stress and anxiety. In this post, you'll leave common causes and dangers of catastrophic thinking, as well as 7 simple changes you can make TODAY to help you thrive in times of stress and still feel in control.

How to Stop Catastrophizing: 7 Catastrophic Thinking Strategies

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