Horror fans can be divided into three core groups: adrenaline junkies who enjoy the thrilling physical response to frightening stimuli, white knuckles who find satisfaction from overcoming or conquering their fears, and dark copers who utilize horror as a way to process fear in their real lives.
Existential Therapy and Prolonged Grief
While grief is a universal human experience, it can also become debilitating for many individuals. Chronic grief can be associated with developing Prolonged Grief Disorder and death anxiety; however, existential therapy techniques may be key to sustainable treatment and healing.
Emotional Support Animals, Service Animals & Animal-Assisted Therapy
Did you know that animals can also provide mental health support, whether as emotional support animals, service animals, or even through animal-assisted therapy? Even though each of these roles differs from the other, all offer substantial benefits that can meet a variety of needs.
How to Feel Your Feelings
Do you ever find yourself wanting to numb or avoid unpleasant, challenging emotions? Perhaps you distract yourself with entertainment, engage in maladaptive coping mechanisms like substance use, or repress and deny any feelings that arise if they don’t seem tolerable. Does any of this sound familiar?
Building Intimacy in Relationships
A multitude of factors can contribute to decreased or diminishing intimacy in a relationship. Past trauma, chronic stress, feeling stuck in a routine, and other unaddressed issues within the relationship itself can prevent the opportunity for cultivating connection and closeness.
Helping Children of Divorce Navigate Changing Family Dynamics
Approximately one in two children will see their parents break up. While divorce is common and can be a path forward for familial healing, dissolution of marriage impacts not only the couple involved but also any children the couple have together.
How to Support Your Child Who Came Out
In order to create a safe space for someone to discuss their identity openly and authentically with them, start with listening without judgment. Let them know you believe them, you love them, and thank them for telling you because it is a courageous thing to do.
Mental Health Breast Cancer Battle
Breast cancer survivors are continuously fighting on the battlefield to win the war on their physical, mental and emotional health. Survivors have been through hell and have managed to fight their way back to a healthy life. Thankfully, breast cancer survivors have tripled in the past decade.
Book Review on Doula Revolution: Transforming your Mind, Body and Soul
I’m a 35-year-old mother of three beautiful children. After the birth of my third child, I struggled with postpartum depression, high blood pressure, pre-eclampsia and to make matters worse, my doctor found a lump in my left breast.
Infertility Group Support Open Letter To My Patients
Infertility, a word all of you are very familiar with! To do a free association activity with this word would produce numerous gut-wrenching feelings, adjectives, questions, nouns etc. I can imagine that I would hear the words isolation, loneliness or alienation reverberated across the room by more than one woman.
