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When Mental Stress Gets Physical: The Signs and Symptoms

If you are experiencing one or more of these symptoms, it could very well be the physical signs of mental stress. There are many ways in which mental stress manifests itself physically. It is important to remember that your brain is your body’s[...]

Meditation Can Help You Live Your Best Life

From a reduction in anxiety to improvements in your concentration, there are many reasons to consider using meditation to strengthen your mental health. With the growth in popularity physical fitness practices like yoga have seen in recent year[...]

4 Ways You Can Help Raise Mental Health Awareness

Here are just a few of the many ways in which you can help raise positive awareness for mental health in your community. There are many stigmas attached to mental health in the United States. As more and more people come forward about their own[...]

Three Common Myths About Therapy

The benefits of therapy are limitless. When it comes to your mental health, talking to a professional is absolutely the best route you can take. When considering therapy, you may have some hesitations. It’s important to know that you’re not alo[...]

4 Easy Ways Spring Improves Your Mental Health

Spring can improve your mood and aid depression in many ways.  Here are a few things to keep in mind as you embrace the warmth and cheeriness of spring. Although Maryland weather is unpredictable, now that it’s finally March, spring is just aro[...]

Tips for Lifting a Negative Mood

If you find yourself feeling a bit down, follow these tips to help turn it around! Everyone has good days and bad days. Negative emotions are just as common as positive ones. Changing circumstances, lack of sleep, sickness, working too much, an[...]

3 Ways a Dog Can Help with Depression

It is estimated that around 40 million adults in the U.S. are living with depression. It is estimated that around 40 million adults in the U.S. are living with depression.  When you’re living with depression, simply getting out of bed in the mo[...]

4 Things that Can Help Boost Your Self-Esteem

Better self-esteem can really change your life. It seems like people are always comparing themselves to others, and it tends to damage their self-esteem. Better self-esteem can really change your life. Being confident in yourself and your own a[...]

The Upside of Mental Illness

While it's true that you are different from many people, that is not a bad thing at all. When you’re living with mental illness, it’s so easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you’re all alone on an alien planet. While it’s true that you ar[...]

Getting a Better Night's Sleep Can Help Lift Your Mood

If you have a mental illness, you may have trouble sleeping at night. If you have a mental illness, you may have trouble sleeping at night. It is so easy to lay in bed in a quiet, dark room and let yourself slip away into the land of “what ifs”[...]

5 Practices to Help You Find Peace in Your Daily Life

The world we live in today is one of constant changes and upheavals. The world we live in today is one of constant changes and upheavals. It can be difficult to find peace in our everyday routines, but it can be done! Ultimately, you need to do[...]

4 Ways to Conquer ADHD as an Adult

It seems like more and more people are living with ADHD today than ever before. It seems like more and more people are living with ADHD today than ever before. As a child, there are education plans and accommodations to help you get through sch[...]

3 Ways to Keep Holiday Blues from Getting You Down

If you've got a case of holiday blues this season, keep it at bay with these tips! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, right? Well, for some, the holiday season is a little less than joyful. If you’ve got a case of holiday blues this seas[...]

3 Ways to Overcome Failure

Whether you are afraid of failing in school, letting down your loved ones, or not living up to the dreams you set for yourself, here are three ways to overcome failure. Take a moment to think about your fears. Halloween is long over, but what w[...]

Tips for Improving Your Self-Esteem

To improve your self-esteem, it is extremely important to learn to accept the negative as well as the positive, and not to dwell on negatives. There are a great many different interpretations of self-esteem. Some think it is tied to popularity,[...]

4 Tips to Help Senior Citizens Deal with Loneliness

Even in this modern world where society is so connected thanks to social media, it’s easy for our clients to feel left out. Do you have aging parents? Or do you work in a facility where you look after senior citizens? If you do, you might have [...]

Getting Through Grief

There is no single “best” way to work through grief, but it is a good idea to get support from wherever you feel comfortable. Grieving is your natural response when you experience a significant loss. The grief process is different for everyone.[...]

How to Cope with Seasonal Affective Disorder

Millions of people deal with seasonal affective disorder each year. Millions of people deal with seasonal affective disorder each year. As the daylight hours get shorter and it’s dark out most of the time, it can have an adverse effect on your [...]

Tips for Dealing with Everyday Stress

Everyone has to deal with stress at some point in their lives. Everyone has to deal with stress at some point in their lives. Whether it’s your job, school, family, health, or something else, you will need to know how to deal with it constructi[...]

3 Things to Remember to Help You Live with Mental Illness

You really are not alone. Mental illness affects so many people. Depression and mental illness are tough to live with, and can often make you feel alone. You really are not alone. There are millions of people in this world. Even if you feel lik[...]