Grief is personal and painfully lonely. If you’ve lost someone important or are navigating a major life change, it can feel like the world keeps moving while you’re stuck carrying a private, heavy weight. At Stenzel Clinical, we [...]
Losing a loved one is one of the most stressful times of anyone’s life. In fact, psychiatrists and therapists have ranked the loss of a loved one as one of the top five stressors a human can face. [...]
Losing a baby is never easy. You shared life and even looked forward to bringing a new baby to the world. The sudden loss of such precious moments and the lost bond between parents and growing baby can [...]
Mental health is a complex, ever shifting landscape of mountains and valleys. It is, really, a fragile structure and our entire lives operate based off of; an assumption that we are relatively okay. In reality, must of us [...]
As we think about what we have witnessed in our country over the past year, the word trauma continues to come up repeatedly. No matter where you lived or what you did for a living, it seemed that [...]
By Rita Rippentrop, MDiv Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor Getting through the holidays while grieving can be a big challenge. It’s common to get flooded with memories at holidays, and many worry about being a “downer” or crying at holiday [...]