Helping Strategies You Can Use at Home
Change your life with this 3-step mindfulness exercise
A good way to bring balance and peace to your life is to do daily mindfulness exercises. If you are not familiar with this, take a look at a three-step summary of the mindfulness exercises that can change your life.
A 6-step mindful breathing exercise for managing your emotions
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a great way to help clients cope with different issues. And, at its core is mindfulness, staying present. This is where we can stay focused and control our thoughts and feelings.
How to deal with people that rub you the wrong way
Are there some annoying people in your life that just get under your skin? You get stuck talking to them and leave feeling frustrated or even angry? They are people you'd just rather not talk to, but can't avoid.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy – How to be more flexible with your outlook
Are your emotions controlling you? Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a highly effective research-based treatment designed by Dr. Marsha Linehan to help those struggling with eating disorders, substance abuse, depression, anxiety, and trauma to cope with life's stresses.
How to use attitude & gratitude to your advantage
Do you think about gratitude? Gratitude is a powerful emotion for the appreciation of what one has. For some, it may be a healthy baby, a warm, cozy bed, or a good job. We can make lists of the things we are grateful for in our lives. But, why is gratitude so important?
Simple ways to turn your guilt and shame into motivation
Many people ask themselves, “Why me? Why did this happen? Why am I like this?” But, when we answer these questions, we tap into our shame and guilt. This leads to negative thinking that we are a terrible person.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy – Imagine a healthy future
How's it going to turn out? So many of us catastrophize our futures. We think it's going to turn out terrible and let our minds go to the negative but, that's our imagination talking.
How Somatic Experiencing Therapy can help In healing trauma
Traumatic experiences are not just for war heroes. Trauma can be experienced in many ways. It can come from specific events or a series of events. And, it can present from pre-verbal times or events from which we have no memory.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills – Turn your “What If” into the best possible scenario
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, also known as DBT, helps clients gain skills they can use in stressful moments. Often times we go let our minds play the “what if” game and it takes us to a negative place. “What if I don't get the job?” And the stressful moment becomes worse just imagining the bad that would come of that.
What is Somatic Experience Therapy?
When you think of Somatic Experiencing Therapy, do you think of some kind of voodoo therapy? Think you will be touched the whole time? Well, those are some of the myths about Somatic Experiencing.
Lead a more balanced lifestyle with these 4 questions
I'm going to help you rebalance your day, or give you a tool to rebalance your day, for eating and your blood sugar level. It's called "Four Questions."
Your journey to recovery: Rediscovering yourself
As with any type of disorder or disease, in order to recover from an eating disorder, you first have to admit there is a problem. That can be really, really tough. But you can do it.
2 Important reminders about improving your body image
Sheri Robenstine of Healthy Futures has a few tips on how to improve your body image and have more fun this summer. First, concentrate on positive thoughts about your body.
Get a Check Up – Free Online Screening
If we suspect something may be wrong physically, most of us don’t hesitate to visit our doctor’s office. When it comes to mental health, it should be no different. Mental health is a key part to our overall health, and that’s especially true for those suffering with eating disorders.
How to tolerate distress using TIPP
There is a skill you can use when you are feeling distressed, extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain. The next time you feel in a highly emotional state, use TIPPs as a way of managing stress, to change your physiology to feel more at ease.
Change your life with this 3-step mindfulness exercise
A good way to bring balance and peace to your life is to do daily mindfulness exercises. If you are not familiar with this, take a look at a three-step summary of the mindfulness exercises that can change your life.
A 6-step mindful breathing exercise for managing your emotions
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a great way to help clients cope with different issues. And, at its core is mindfulness, staying present. This is where we can stay focused and control our thoughts and feelings.
How to deal with people that rub you the wrong way
Are there some annoying people in your life that just get under your skin? You get stuck talking to them and leave feeling frustrated or even angry? They are people you'd just rather not talk to, but can't avoid.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy – How to be more flexible with your outlook
Are your emotions controlling you? Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a highly effective research-based treatment designed by Dr. Marsha Linehan to help those struggling with eating disorders, substance abuse, depression, anxiety, and trauma to cope with life's stresses.
How to use attitude & gratitude to your advantage
Do you think about gratitude? Gratitude is a powerful emotion for the appreciation of what one has. For some, it may be a healthy baby, a warm, cozy bed, or a good job. We can make lists of the things we are grateful for in our lives. But, why is gratitude so important?
Simple ways to turn your guilt and shame into motivation
Many people ask themselves, “Why me? Why did this happen? Why am I like this?” But, when we answer these questions, we tap into our shame and guilt. This leads to negative thinking that we are a terrible person.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy – Imagine a healthy future
How's it going to turn out? So many of us catastrophize our futures. We think it's going to turn out terrible and let our minds go to the negative but, that's our imagination talking.
How Somatic Experiencing Therapy can help In healing trauma
Traumatic experiences are not just for war heroes. Trauma can be experienced in many ways. It can come from specific events or a series of events. And, it can present from pre-verbal times or events from which we have no memory.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills – Turn your “What If” into the best possible scenario
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, also known as DBT, helps clients gain skills they can use in stressful moments. Often times we go let our minds play the “what if” game and it takes us to a negative place. “What if I don't get the job?” And the stressful moment becomes worse just imagining the bad that would come of that.
What is Somatic Experience Therapy?
When you think of Somatic Experiencing Therapy, do you think of some kind of voodoo therapy? Think you will be touched the whole time? Well, those are some of the myths about Somatic Experiencing.
Lead a more balanced lifestyle with these 4 questions
I'm going to help you rebalance your day, or give you a tool to rebalance your day, for eating and your blood sugar level. It's called "Four Questions."
Your journey to recovery: Rediscovering yourself
As with any type of disorder or disease, in order to recover from an eating disorder, you first have to admit there is a problem. That can be really, really tough. But you can do it.
2 Important reminders about improving your body image
Sheri Robenstine of Healthy Futures has a few tips on how to improve your body image and have more fun this summer. First, concentrate on positive thoughts about your body.
Get a Check Up – Free Online Screening
If we suspect something may be wrong physically, most of us don’t hesitate to visit our doctor’s office. When it comes to mental health, it should be no different. Mental health is a key part to our overall health, and that’s especially true for those suffering with eating disorders.
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