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Building a Culture of Appreciation
It can be altogether natural to feel overwhelmed and stressed even amid pandemic circumstances. Formerly isolating from friends, co-workers, and even family, worrying about getting sick or losing a job, and navigating an economic recession are all active agents of stress that many had to battle throughout last year and into the new. As part of a biological survival system, stress allows us to meet any challenges and demands [...]
What Exactly Is Play Therapy for Children, and How Is It Different from Regular Therapy?
Despite common misconceptions surrounding it, therapy is not just for adults. Indeed, even children can benefit from it. However, it does get harder for most therapists to handle younger patients, especially when they can’t talk at the same level as an adult would. In these cases, talking to them normally probably wouldn’t work, even if you are the best therapist around. They will be defensive, mostly quiet, and will [...]
What Is EMDR Therapy and The Benefits to Trauma & PTSD Patients
Post-traumatic stress disorder often kills lives without killing the body. It’s one of the things that leave people devastated in its wake, bringing its victims into a lifelong descent to the endless, soul-piercing chasm of horror by the past that brought them there. You could, perhaps, say that someone going through PTSD has never really, truly, returned. That if they have ever come back, the past eats them up [...]
Does CBT And Other Mental Health Therapy Help Eating Disorders?
When was the last time that you genuinely enjoyed your food? For people with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder, the answer might be an “I don’t know” with a look away from you. Interesting as it may sound, however, the reality is that suffering from any kind of eating disorder can get more demoralizing than it could ever be described. Many who do suffer from eating disorders [...]
Recovering Empathy in a Changing World – Part II
Current research supports that empathy has steadily declined among young people from 1979 onward, and you can read more about its diminishing quality on college campuses here. Not only prized as part of a skill set and important value, empathy has already made a prominent appearance in various contexts with its international buzz status. Current research literature also highlights how building the capacity for empathy can have many prosocial [...]
Living Unhurried
In many dynamic ways, this season of the novel coronavirus has invited innovation at a deeper and more profound level. We have seen new ways to detect the temperature of individuals using a Bluetooth smart thermometer, burgeoning online teaching platforms to transmit information, and members of various societal organizations like the Toronto Symphony Orchestra that learned to perform together from 29 different locations using ingenuity from their smartphones. Innovation [...]