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Mental Health and Going to the Salon: 10 Ways to Have a Good Sensory Experience
Going to the salon is typically an enjoyable experience for most people I know. It’s a time to not have to work or to cook or to run errands. A...
Teaching Children Mindfulness
In our practice, we’ve noticed how more and more adults are becoming familiar with the concept of mindfulness. We know that mindfulness benefits us and improves our ability to be...
When Help Is Harmful: Thoughts On “Snowplow” Parenting
The recent news about wealthy/celebrity parents paying to have their children accepted into colleges via fraudulent methods has gotten me thinking. My first thought is, “Wait, isn’t this old...
6 Ways to Overcome and Benefit from Embarrassment
Henri Rousseau once wrote, “It’s not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.” We’ve all been there, strutting down the path of humiliation with...
Lost in the Shadows of HIPAA
A person can be lost living on the street with a debilitating mental illness. They can refuse all help from a caring family, even if they are cognitively impaired and...
I Need To Do Something
A doctor friend of mine mentioned recently that the thing he remembers most about the DSM definition of ADHD is the part that states the person with this disorder may...
Spiritual Counseling & The Plain-Vanilla Viewpoint
Sometimes people, including psychologists and social workers, believe that they have an unbiased, base-line or “plain vanilla” point of view. It can be very difficult for someone who aligns with...
Today I Love The Snow Dusted Path
Today I love the snow dusted path that leads through the back yard to places where plans we have made will be put into action this year and maybe some...
9 Signs of an Unhealthy Relationship
When Bryan first met his girlfriend, he was smitten. She was charming, helpful, generous, kind, and interesting. She would laugh at his lame jokes, tell him how smart he was,...
The Seeming Senselessness of Grief
To say I’m not in love with grief is putting it mildly. I’ve been cycling through the (alleged) five stages of grief for, well, three solid months now since my...
Best of Our Blogs: March 22, 2019
One of the most difficult things about having chronic illness is the daily decisions of asking yourself how are you going to spend this moment? On bad days, when you’re...
“Are you going to adopt her?” – The Answer to the Big Foster Care Question
Since we took our foster daughter into home almost six months ago, we’ve been asked probably 9,782 times if we’re going to adopt her. I don’t blame people for asking....
The Little Things That Can Get You Through Depression
I don’t know what people do to get through depression without a job, without a pet, and without good people around them. Often times we don’t realize the things that save...
5 Ways to Resolve Your Trust Issues Before Your Next Relationship
Heartbreak hurts but you will love again. After a broken relationship and a painful heartbreak, many people ask themselves this question: “Where’s the wine?” Then, they follow up with a...
1 Thing Modern Parents Are Doing SO Wrong
“Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset,” sang Topol in Fiddler on the Roof. “Swiftly fly the years.” And in the twenty years that have swiftly flown since I graduated High School, another...
The Tetris Effect, and Why You See What You Look For
One of the seven principles Shawn Achor, the author of, The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work describes...
Traumatic Stress: 11 Circumstances We Fail To See As Traumatic
What do you know about trauma? What makes a traumatic situation traumatic? Emotional and psychological trauma affects about 26% of the child US population. About 60% of adults report experiencing...
Having A Child With Bipolar Disorder: My Parent’s Point Of View
The final blog in this series from the point of view of my support system is focusing on my parents, on what it was like to have a child with...
How to Become a Registered Behavior Technician
How do you become a registered behavior technician, also known as an RBT? This credential was developed by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB). An RBT is a professional who...
The Fallacy of the Perfect Birth
In our book A Womb of Her Own (Routledge, 2017) author Helena Vissing writes as follows: In the idealization of birth, the negative aspects are split off and understood explicitly...
Many in Addiction Recovery Face Chronic Health Issues
More than a third of people recovering from addiction continue to suffer from chronic physical disease, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Recovery...
Delusions May Stem from ‘Sticky’ Beliefs
A study published in the journal Brain offers new insights into the development of delusions — false beliefs that are rigidly held with strong conviction despite contradictory evidence. Based on the...
Eating Nuts for Years Tied to Better Cognition in Older Adults
People who consume just a handful of nuts each day for several years can significantly improve their cognitive function in old age, according to a new study from the University...
Some Autistic Kids Are In Tune with Mom’s Emotions
For children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), recognizing facial expressions in others is especially challenging. New research, however, finds that some ASD children display skilled and proficient emotional processing skills...
Study: Inflammation Links Heart Disease and Depression
It is well-established that individuals with heart disease are more likely to suffer from depression, and vice versa. Now in a new study, researchers at the University of Cambridge in...
Case Study Shows Psychosis Tied to Bacterial Infection
In a new case study published in the Journal of Central Nervous System Disease, researchers from North Carolina State University describe an adolescent diagnosed with rapid onset schizophrenia who was...
