Why Am I Depressed?
What Is Causing My Depression? Often, when we realize we are depressed we search for an answer as to why. You have likely heard that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance. That is true …
5 Simple Ways To Keep Your 2020 New Year Resolutions
How To Keep Your 2020 New Year Resolutions It’s the first week of February, have you given up on your New Year’s resolutions already? According to Best Life Online, most people have given up on …
Can I Afford To See a Therapist
Can I afford to see a therapist? Once you’ve made the decision to see a professional for therapy or counseling, how to pay for it might concern you. Generally there are a few different ways …
What Star Wars Can Teach Us About Emotional Resilience
Spoiler alert: This post contains spoilers for Star Wars episodes 1-8. If you are interested in it you have probably already seen those films but in the off-chance you have not, please be aware. What …
How to Support a Recovering Partner Through the Holidays
How to support a recovering partner through the holidays (without being codependent or controlling) It’s the most wonderful time of the year, right? The holidays are fast upon us and for many people eating and …
7 Things Successful People Do Before 7am
how to make your morning routine better When deciding to revive my YouTube channel I chose two series that I thought would be interesting to viewers but also fun to do and helpful in my …
Why I Decided To Stop Being Angry
For many years in my 20s, I had a metal door that had magnets and postcards all over it. One of the stickers that I had pinned up to the door was this one: I …
Mindfulness and Addiction Recovery
Much research over the last 20 years has been devoted to mindfulness and the ways that we can use it to improve our lives. Not only is mindfulness helpful for those who have a mental …
How To Move Forward After Loss – The Tasks of Grief
Moving beyond the stages of grief As a culture, we seem to be very familiar with the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. What we are less familiar with is the tasks …
All About Mindfulness
Mindfulness Made Easy What is mindfulness? It seems like it’s such a popular word to throw around, everyone’s talking about being mindful but what IS mindfulness? Why should we care? The most important question might …