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Cultivating Body Awareness: A Path to Physical and Mental Well-Being
In today's fast-paced world, where the demands of work, technology, and daily life often keep us disconnected from our own bodies, cultivating body awareness has become more important than ever. Body awareness is the ability to tune into the sensations, movements, and...
Navigating the Link Between Suicide Awareness and Chronic Illness
In our journey to raise awareness about mental health, it's essential to shed light on the often-unspoken connection between suicide awareness and chronic illnesses. While chronic conditions affect millions worldwide, the emotional toll they take on individuals can...
Be Mindful of Your Mental Health
Feeling off, overwhelmed, or low constantly? You’re not alone. If you have been feeling this way, it may be time to take the next step and seek help. Our therapists are ready to get you back to feeling like you again. When you arrive at your first visit, we not only...
Exercise
Exercise has a huge effect on mental health but is a hard habit to form and keep for many people. For people who are depressed or experiencing dysfunction exercise may seem impossibly difficult. Often the symptoms that prompt us to seek treatment develop over time...
Diet
Medication and therapy are often needed to improve and maintain mental health, but this is only one part of the picture for most people. Often, I hear people talk about mental health as if it is detached and totally separate from physical health. This may be because...
Benefits of Group Therapy
There are many approaches to mental healthcare treatment with the two most common being medication and individual therapy, which are proven to be very useful to help patients. Another approach is group therapy. For years, we have used group therapy in different...
New Year, New You
It is a new year! At the end of a year and beginning of a new year, we tend to reflect on the goals we hoped to achieve the previous year and may feel disappointed from not achieving all our goals. We have seen patients are often more sad than usual from...
What to Expect Out of Therapy
As I, and even other colleagues, have had conversations about therapy, we have noticed there are a couple of misunderstandings and assumptions that are generally made around it. Clarification about what to expect from mental health therapy is important to ensure a...
Gifting Expectations Around the Holidays
My daughter found a target magazine with hundreds of toys, and she circled tons of things that she wanted, starred her favorites, and what her brother would want. She may not even know what everything is, but she sees it and wants it. Around this time of year, how we...
Seasonal Depression
With changes in the season, here in Mississippi, we see more seasonal depression. We don’t see it as much in Ecuador, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and places where the seasons are consistently warm and sunny all year. Depending on where you live, seasons are very different, and...