How to Get the Most Out of Therapy
If you’re here, congratulations on taking the first step and beginning therapy! Deciding to go to therapy is a major step in overcoming issues like anxiety or depression, healing trauma, getting support to cope with difficult life transitions, managing stress or working on developing healthier relationships. We asked the therapists at the Counseling and Wellness Center of...Learn More
Cut Down on Stress by Cutting out These Two Words Stop Stressing Yourself Out!
Cut Down on Stress by Cutting out These Two Words Stop Stressing Yourself Out! The Holidays are an easy opportunity to let stress bubble over and become full blown anxiety. Stressors are a fact of life, but a majority of the stress we experience is actually a result of the things we tell ourselves. Often, our anxiety is rooted in the unfortunate human tendency to take our hopes, goals and...Learn More
What is Self Esteem in Psychology and Self Acceptance Enhancing Exercises
Will I Ever Measure Up? Do you need to be approved of by others? Do you want to be successful in life? If you have a heartbeat, the answer is probably yes. But there is a distinct difference between simply valuing the approval of other people and basing your value on the approval of others. Like most things in life, the devil is in the details. When we get those details confused, we find...Learn More
The Nine Best Ways To Build a Self Care Plan, Mental Health Matters
Best way to build a self care plan, mental health matters We hear lots of people taking about self care these days but what actually is it? Is there a right way to do it? I hope to answer some of these questions for you today because mental health matters and you matter. Self care can be defined as any activity that we do deliberately in order to take care of our mental, emotional,...Learn More
The Real Gratitude Challenge
The Real Gratitude Challenge It’s Thanksgiving and everyone wants to talk about turkey and gratitude. Newsfeeds and flyers encourage us to take the ‘gratitude challenge’ by sharing how happy we are for our kids, our marriage, families, our job, our house. Nowonder, according to the National Institute of Health, gratitude can help us increase our life satisfaction and mental health! Oh, how...Learn More