How To Manage Chronic Stress

How To Manage Chronic Stress

Do you often find yourself feeling overwhelmed, anxious, irritable, or walking around with a know in your stomach? If so, chances are your life is being affected by chronic stress. While feeling stressed occasionally is normal and natural, having extended periods of...
How To Support Someone With a Mental Health Problem

How To Support Someone With a Mental Health Problem

If your loved one, a close friend, or a romantic partner struggles with a mental health issue, chances are your relationship might be incredibly stressful, draining, and simply difficult at times. Even if you have their best interest at heart, it can often feel like...
Does Trauma Cause Memory Loss?

Does Trauma Cause Memory Loss?

The Impact of Trauma on Memory Function Traumatic experiences can have a profound effect on memory function, often leading to memory loss as a coping mechanism. Ingrid Waichler, LCSW, and Maria Simbra, MD, from Choosing Therapy, highlight the negative impact of trauma...
5 Ways To Improve Your Sleep Habits

5 Ways To Improve Your Sleep Habits

  We’ve all experienced a sleepless night or two in our lives, full of tossing and turning or worrying about an important upcoming event. The next day you might have felt groggy, irritable, and drained energetically. However, when the struggle with sleeping...
The Importance of Setting Healthy Boundaries

The Importance of Setting Healthy Boundaries

Setting healthy boundaries is an essential skill to have in life, useful in managing relationships and creating an optimal environment that supports our well-being. Yet, boundary-setting is a lot easier in theory than practice. We all people struggle from time to time...
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) and Psychology

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) and Psychology

Robbie Busch and Sharon McCarthy at the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Critical Perspectives on Mental Health wrote that evidence-based practice (EBP) is a framework that assumes the incorporation of clinical expertise and patient characteristics with established evidence...
Homelessness and Mental Illness

Homelessness and Mental Illness

According to Tom K.J. Craig, Ph.D., the prevalence of serious mental illness is higher in homeless people compared with those housed, and there are higher rates of personality disorder, self-harm, and attempted suicide. Peter Tarr, Ph.D., answered the following...