What is Psychotherapy?
In a world that often moves at a rapid pace, psychotherapy stands as a steadfast beacon of support for those navigating the complexities of the human mind.
Healthy Habits Help Your Child Now and in the Future
How you raise your children will impact them the rest of their lives. By establishing healthy habits now, you encourage your kids to grow up to be healthy adults. Here are some ways to ensure you are laying the foundation for your children’s current and future wellness.
When Was the Last Time You Played?
Play is an important part of an individual’s mental health. Being silly, laughing, and connecting with others through play helps relieve stress, improve mood, and create a more positive outlook.
Yoga’s Holistic Approach to Anxiety
Some level of anxiety is a natural response to environmental stressors. It keeps us focused and safe. But when feelings of anxiety become overwhelming or unmanageable they can begin to take a toll on many different aspects of our lives. There are four standard recommendations to treat anxiety: talk therapy, medication, exercise, and yoga.
Preventing Winter Blues
Many people are familiar with the term Seasonal Affective Disorder (or SAD, as it is aptly referred to). SAD is the clinical term for a seasonal condition that often commences in the fall and winter months and includes symptoms such as low energy, lack of interest in things you typically enjoy, problems sleeping, changes in appetite or weight gain, difficulty concentrating, and even suicidal ideations. But even people without full-blown SAD can feel some of these symptoms during the cold winter months.
Simple Financial Planning Tips for Parents
Financial planning is a lengthy and often stressful process for most; it comes with thoughts about an uncertain future, providing for loved ones no matter what the economic climate is, and how to comfortably get through retirement.
Creating a New Normal: Surviving Hybrid and Distance Learning
Hybrid learning is tough, and there’s still a long way to go! Learn some tips and tricks for making it work for you and. your child.
How Gottman Couples Counseling Can Improve Your Relationship
Gottman Couples Therapy is a comprehensive and research-backed approach that provides practical tools and strategies to enhance your relationship. Whether you are facing specific challenges or simply want to strengthen your connection, this therapy offers a roadmap for building a healthier and more fulfilling partnership.
5 Foods to Increase Energy This Winter
There is something about the long Minnesota winters that just sap the energy out of people. So, if you are feeling this way, know that you aren't alone. Fortunately, there are many cheap and easy foods that can boost your energy during the winter months.
How To Help Your Child Develop Self-Confidence
Self-confidence can be a wonderful thing. In fact, having a good level of self-confidence is a major factor in leading a happy and healthy life. So, naturally, if you’re a parent, you will want to help your child to develop self-confidence.
But just how can you go about doing this?
Ease Anxiety by Stepping Into Nature
Being in nature has been shown to reduce feelings of anger, fear, and stress while increasing pleasant feelings in the body. Being in nature may not only makes you feel better emotionally, but in can also improve your physical well-being by reducing stress, blood pressure, heart rate, and tension. One study even connects nature to lower mortality rates!
Fear or Intuition? How to Tell the Difference
Intuition is clarifying and calming. It is a multi-level knowingness that something just IS. Intuition also resides in the present moment and tends to feel light, airy, and affirming. Fear, on the other hand, is typically negative and fear based. It is often a very heavy, roiling feeling in the pit of the stomach that keeps you up at night thinking about all the bad things that could happen in the future or recalling bad things that have happened in the past. Intuition flows and expands.
5 Questions to Uncover Your Purpose
Figuring out your purpose might be one of life’s most important endeavors. But that doesn’t mean it needs to take a lifetime to figure it out. Even though the question of purpose is one that you should continually engage with and revisit over your lifespan, it’s never too early to identify and articulate your purpose.