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Cannabis and the Adolescent Brain
Granville Stanley Hall, American psychologist and the founder of the child study movement in his era, wrote in 1904 about the exhilarating turbulence of adolescence: These years are the best decade of life. No age is so responsive to all the best and wisest adult endeavor. In no psychic soil, too, does seed, bad as well as good, strike such deep root, grow so rankly or bear fruit so [...]
Seasonal Affective Disorder
As we move into fall and winter the days are getting shorter, the temperature is getting colder and people find themselves spending more time inside. Ask yourself a few questions; do you start to feel more tired around this time? Do you find yourself feeling depressed, numb and less interested in activities? Do you find your mood changing drastically from fall and winter to spring and summer? Do you [...]
NF Is a Rapper Counselors Can Get Behind
As parents, you might find yourself frequently worrying about the way popular media affects the mental health of your children as they move into their teenage years. Negative messaging isn’t hard to find, but it can be specifically concerning in music. The popular tunes of today’s younger generation are heavily saturated with rap music that doesn’t always express the kinds of thoughts and goals we want our children to [...]
Understanding And Facing Our Emotions
Often when I have new people coming into therapy, their goal is to get rid of their emotions because they make them uncomfortable. When I see clients dealing with anger, grief, anxiety or fear, they often search for ways to avoid the emotions as much as possible. For some reason, society has portrayed this vision that the person who shows no emotion is strong, and that those who show [...]
Finding Margin in Our Lives
Do you feel that you are constantly running on empty? That you are constantly running to the one thing after another? Do you find yourself constantly late to things in your life? How about forgetting important dates, or about the family and friends in your life? If one or all of these apply to you, it can mean that you are struggling with margin in your life. You are [...]
The Necessity of Emotional Regulation in Anxiety – Part II
Reference to the previous article on emotional regulation is here. Anxiety-related circumstances are some of the more common expressions of mental health needs within our societal landscape. The current statistical significance indicates that a multitude of Americans are being impacted, spanning across ages, with an anxiety-related circumstance. American author and journalist Scott Stossel remarks: Anxiety and its associated disorders represent the most common form of officially classified mental illness [...]