How Self-Compassion Can Help You Deal With Stress
While we may have heard that it’s important to treat ourselves with kindness, sometimes this is easier said than done, especially when we’re under stress. When we’re facing challenging circumstances, we may fall back into less productive thought patterns, like ruminating or blaming ourselves. We may even worry that we’re going too easy on ourselves […]
Resistance in the Black Community to Mental Health Services
I met with a group of approximately 40 Black women and proposed this simple question to them: “What Is It?” In my clinical experience, I frequently listen to comments from other Mental health professionals and agency representatives about why the Black community often seems to fail to seek Mental health diagnoses, treatment, and services. Two […]
A Simple Formula for Making Career Decisions
Source: Camrocker/Depositphotos No matter how much you want to make a change in your career or life, if the change requires taking risks, your brain will likely concoct rationalizations to avoid possible pain, even if the choice clearly offers personal satisfaction and meaningful success. The awkwardness of trying something new or showing up in a […]
Parental Stress at an All-Time High
Co-authored by Sarah MacLaughlin, LSW You’ve probably heard about the recent U.S. Surgeon General Advisory on parental stress. Parents and caregivers feeling stressed is not a new phenomenon. However, today’s levels of stress have parents at a breaking point, with 41 percent of parents saying that most days they feel so stressed they can’t even […]
The Empathy Singularity | Psychology Today
Source: Art: DALL-E/OpenAI As the possibility or perhaps inevitability of artificial general intelligence (AGI) draws closer, it’s natural to wonder how human cognition can compete in a world where machines may soon match, or surpass, human intellectual abilities. AGI’s potential to perform any cognitive task that a human can begs the question: How do we, […]
Disaster Relief Management — Community Resiliency Model
The Disaster Relief Mobilization: Community Resiliency Model Preparation Program (DRM:CRM) is a trauma-informed, resiliency-focused initiative designed to support communities before, during, and after a disaster. When disasters strike, they often cause widespread damage to a community’s infrastructure, posing significant Mental health challenges for children, teens, and adults. Survivors may face the loss of loved ones—family, […]
Why You Must Nurture Yourself
Source: LollaDesign / Shutterstock Your most intimate relationship is with your own self. This is the filter through which you experience your life and how others experience you. Reflect on what messages you send yourself through your thoughts and feelings. Do you validate yourself? Do you like yourself? Do you invest in yourself? Here’s an […]
How Does Your Personality Affect Your Happiness?
Many of us don’t necessarily have the kind of lives we want. We may not enjoy intimate relationships, jobs that fulfill us, the ideal home, or enough income to do what we want to do. But do these circumstances dictate our happiness? According to a new study led by René Mõttus of Edinburgh University and […]
Four Powerful Ways to Cope with Survivor’s Guilt
Acknowledge and validate your survivor’s guilt; it’s a natural response to devastating events. Source: Wasabi Publicity/Adobe/GoodIdeas, used with permission In the aftermath of a devastating hurricane like Helene or Milton, the wreckage is not only physical—there’s emotional damage, too. If you’ve survived while others around you have lost their homes, their livelihoods, or even their […]
Finding Light in the Shadows of an Invisible Illness
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” ~Albert Camus Life has a way of throwing us curve balls when we least expect them. For years, I had been managing the usual ups and downs of life when I was blindsided by a diagnosis that would forever […]