Self Care Series: What to do When You’re Triggered
What does it mean to be triggered? Being “triggered” happens when something in your environment causes your central nervous system to go into fight or flight mode thus initiating physiological, emotional, and cognitive changes in your body. These changes cause all...
Five Ways to Stop a Panic Attack
A panic attack, otherwise known as an anxiety attack, is when someone feels intensely overwhelmed. They can be caused by a life stressor, such as a divorce, death, or public speaking. Many times, though, they occur spontaneously for no apparent reason. Typically...
Self Care Series: Modeling Self Care for Children
Although we are starting to see a drop in cases and the vaccine is starting to be distributed, the pandemic continues, among other things. The chronic nature of the pandemic is causing an intensification of mental health symptoms in everyone, whether this means having...
An Argument for Listening to Your Emotional Side
We are often taught that emotions are “irrational” and that it is better to think logically or rationally. I find that argument to be flawed as it discounts the essential role emotions have in helping us understand ourselves and the world around us. Emotions are not...