Posts tagged perspective
Mental Health and the Holidays: What Can I Do to Protect Myself?

Currently, the US is still healing from a “highly contested election,” a surge in coronavirus cases, fluctuating physical distancing restrictions and regulations, oh and of course, the holidays coming up. Regulation is key. While we all have so much on our plates (pun intended), it’s difficult to think about all that is ahead in the last month of this year, especially after Thanksgiving.

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What Are Tips for Mental Health Spring Cleaning?

Every year, we clean our homes in the spring to prepare and sharpen for the year ahead. Have you ever done the same thing with your mind, which is the body’s most important organ? Decluttering your brain is just as important and this blog will provide you with 10 easy tips for how to do so!

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What Are the ABCs of Emotional and Behavioral Management?

It’s all fun and games until someone finds out the function of your behavior! Have you ever wondered why you do certain things or why you react or behave in specific ways? Perhaps learning about the ABCs of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) will help you break this down.

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The Anatomy of Gratitude

Recently, I listened to an insightful podcast titled “The Anatomy of Gratitude” with David Steindl-Rast, a ninety-three-year-old Benedictine monk and teacher on the subject of gratitude. He makes useful distinctions about experiences that are “life-giving” and “resilience-making.”

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Life with a Glass Half Full: The Benefits of Optimism

Are you pessimistic? That’s okay, life can be disappointing at times. However, 8.6% of the things we worry about, or things that we are pessimistic about, never happen. Even when they do happen, we are more resilient than we think and recovery isn’t as bad as we imagine.

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I Wish We Were All Lettuce

“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it’s not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet, if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce…” - Tich Nhat Hanh

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