Practicing Self-Compassion

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Next time you notice your inner critic, try to practice self-compassion and then take time to reflect on how it makes you feel!

Stress, Self-Care, & Your Kids

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Practicing self care as a family supports the relational bond and is a constructive way to model healthy and effective skills to manage future stressors.

Goal Setting for the Real World

What if, instead of holding ourselves to insanely high standards and seeing anything short of that as a failure, we started goal-setting in realistic ways?

What if we celebrated our small successes as valid, gave ourselves props for any forward motion, and cut ourselves slack for the moments we’re less than perfect? How might that impact our long term success?

4 Techniques to Combat Anxiety

Anxiety can be overwhelming and feel as though it has taken over your life. Training your body and brain to relax is not an easy process, but with the help of supportive family, a counselor, and close friends you can learn to challenge illogical thought processes, relax physically, and start to overcome your anxiety.

Increase Your Anxiety Knowledge

Anxiety issues come in several forms and can truly affect one’s life. Anxiety is highly treatable through psychotherapy that includes behavior and thought changes, medication, or both.

Is This Anxiety?

There are important distinctions between a normal level of worrying and anxiety. Recognizing this distinction can help you determine whether your level worry is a natural response to a stressful situation.

Normal Worry or Anxiety?

Anxiety is a prolonged form of stress that can be really detrimental when left untreated over time. Therapy has been shown to be extremely effective at treating anxiety and the accompanying symptoms. Reach out to a therapist to talk about how therapy could help your anxiety!