

Mental Health Awareness Month Week 4: Using Mindfulness to Ease Anxiety and Worry
Anxiety can mentally exhaust you and create some real impacts on your body. The good news is you can reduce your anxiety and stress without over the counter drugs and their side effects by simply adding a mindfulness practice to your life. Mindfulness is about slowing down and paying more attention to the little things that are happening around you in daily life. It’s about tuning into your mind and body and coming back to the present moment. The best part is that you


Mental Health Awareness Month Week 3: Why I am Exhausted from Being Alone & How to Deal with It
During this pandemic are you doing less, but feel more exhausted? Do you have spurts of amazing creativity and then feel the need to nap? Turns out, you’re not alone. In stressful situations our bodies go through physiological responses to stress. We prepare to fight or flee and as this pandemic continues and isolation drags on, we are experiencing more physiological adaptations each time we feel stressed, worried or overstimulated. Over time, these continuous hits can accu


Mental Health Awareness Month Week 2: Be Bored to Stimulate your Cognitive Health
Have you felt the tug that you should be optimizing all your time in this quarantine? Do you feel that you need to seize this opportunity to be more productive? Social media posts can taunt us with feelings of under achieving when we see “If you don’t come out of quarantine with a new skill, tried more recipes or starting a new hobby you never lacked the time, you lacked the discipline.” Ouch- that is a true sucker punch to your own gut. Now, for some, this time has op


May 2020: Mental Health Awareness Month Journaling
As we go into another few weeks of social distancing and slow changes, I would like to offer you some more guidance to help you move through another month of isolation with some great tips on keeping your mental health positive. Here are some of the feelings that are prevalent during this pandemic when your needs are not being met: anxious, scared, frustrated, insecure, worried, envious, annoyed, awkward, hurt, fear, distracted or mad. These are the feelings you should