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Developing Personal Agency
For every waking day, different psychological commentators and pundits have unanimously agreed that around 24 gigabytes of data and 100,000 words of information reach the eyes and ears of any human being consistently within any given day; by the time some Americans hit their heads on their pillows, they have seen 5,000 advertisements! This only continues to climb within the current information age for digital natives as technology continues [...]
How Are Memory, Trauma, and EMDR Therapy Related?
Trauma is defined as an emotional, psychological response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event or experience. Trauma can cause a significant amount of stress, both long and short-term. Trauma stress can impact different brain parts, such as the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and amygdala. Due to traumatic stress, these parts of the brain can experience diminished function, along with a change in shape and volume. These areas of the [...]
Why We Hate and How to Turn Those Emotions into Love
Having hate is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to get poisoned. Hate starts within yourself. Hate is more destructive to yourself more than anyone else. In the world that we live in today, hate is a negative influence everywhere. When our environment is saturated with negative actions, emotions, and thoughts, it can affect us drastically. It is critical to learn how to cope with these hostile forces and [...]
Mastering Anxiety Challenges When Returning to Work
by Deepak Santhiraj, Licensed Clinical Social Worker Mastering Anxiety Challenges When Returning to Work As many organizations and workplaces are calling employees back to the office this fall, feelings of overwhelm and unease are becoming very commonplace. Many are uncertain about the reality of being able to “return to normal” since much of our pandemic circumstances seem to still ebb and flow. Employees are needing to re-learn how to [...]
10 Steps to Help Manage A Struggling Marriage in 2023
If you were married before COVID-19 happened, did you like your spouse? We all know that loving someone doesn’t really imply that you need to like them. Maybe the reason the marriage worked in the first place was because of boundaries; a couple that works opposite shifts will find that isolation welcomed most of the time. Or maybe one of you has developed behaviors that send your other into [...]
3 Reasons Why You May Still Be Struggling Even Though Things Feel Better
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 are not okay. The recent pandemic not only shot people into their first-ever mental health issues. But it also sent those who already had issues, into deeper isolation. Mental health is [...]