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Understanding the Connection Between Diet and Mental Health
Diet impacts mental health by influencing brain chemistry, hormones, and neurotransmitters. Omega-3s, B vitamins, magnesium, and antioxidants boost mood and cognition. Diets like Mediterranean or low-sugar reduce inflammation and improve gut health.
Dec 6th, 2024
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Breathing Exercises to Help with Performance Anxiety
Performance anxiety, or stage fright, causes intense nervousness and physical symptoms. Controlled breathing exercises can activate the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting relaxation and reducing anxiety.
Jun 22nd, 2024

The Road to Well-being: Mastering Nervous System Regulation
Living in a fast-paced world can lead to nervous system overstimulation, causing issues like tension, anxiety, and fatigue. A balanced nervous system promotes calmness, focus, and adaptive stress response. Recognizing these signs is crucial for well-being.
Oct 5th, 2023

Unlocking Clarity: Your Holistic Guide to Beating Brain Fog
Brain fog is common, but holistic psychiatry offers an integrative approach. It considers nutrition, stress, sleep, and lifestyle changes, along with lab tests and genetic insights, to improve mental clarity and overall well-being.
Sep 29th, 2023
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Holistic Treatment for Depression: A Comprehensive Guide
Holistic treatment for depression involves addressing the whole person, including mind, body, and spirit. This can include healthy lifestyle habits, mindfulness-based practices, social support, and alternative therapies.
Mar 27th, 2023
Healthy Food and Emotion Regulation

Healthy Food and Emotion Regulation
Are you an emotional eater? When you’re feeling stressed, do you find yourself ordering in pizza? When something sad happens, do you drown your grief in sugar? If so, you’re not alone.
Sep 21st, 2021
Three Reasons Men Should Try Therapy

Three Reasons Men Should Try Therapy
Men have taken on a specific role in human development over the span of hundreds of thousands of years. While roles have very recently shifted somewhat, historically speaking, men have been the ones to fight the wars and build society.
Sep 14th, 2021
The Truth About Perfectionism

The Truth About Perfectionism
Perfectionism is NOT the same thing as always doing your best. It is important that we always do our best. By doing so, we can experience healthy achievements and growth. But perfectionism takes this concept to the extreme.
Sep 7th, 2021
Mental Health Habits for 2021

Mental Health Habits for 2021
We live in a society that seems obsessed with physical health and weight loss. A majority of people have tried one or more diets to lose weight. People join gyms, juice, and take supplements, all in an effort to optimize their physical health.
Aug 17th, 2021
The Power of Vulnerability

The Power of Vulnerability
We live in a society that rewards those with courage and valor. We are taught from a young age that it’s good to face our fears, for doing so is often the catalyst for powerful and lasting change. And yet, how many of us allow ourselves to be vulnerable?
Aug 10th, 2021
How to Navigate Challenging Life Transitions

How to Navigate Challenging Life Transitions
When we’re young, life transitions are fun and empowering. We go from crawling to walking, walking to running. We start with training wheels but soon no longer need them. As we age we graduate into higher grades and become more independent.
Aug 3rd, 2021
How to Deal with Social Anxiety after COVID

How to Deal with Social Anxiety after COVID
It has been a very long year. Lockdowns and social distancing have had a profound impact on our hearts and minds. But thankfully, as the vaccines roll out and the country begins to slowly open back up, we are beginning to return to some kind of normal.
Jul 27th, 2021
Afraid of Failure? Here's Advice on Coping with Failure

Afraid of Failure? Here's Advice on Coping with Failure
Fear of failure causes us to put the brakes on our life. When we’re so afraid of failing at something, we either don’t try at all, or we subconsciously undermine our own efforts to avoid an even bigger failure.
Jul 20th, 2021
5 Signs That You Might be Struggling with Anxiety

5 Signs That You Might be Struggling with Anxiety
It’s normal to feel anxious from time to time. Perhaps you get a bit nervous speaking in front of people or going on a job interview. But for some people, anxiety becomes a frequent and forceful occurrence that completely takes over their lives.
Jul 14th, 2021
Bad Fats vs. Good Fats vs. Great Fats

Bad Fats vs. Good Fats vs. Great Fats
Fat. You can’t live with it (on your thighs and hips) but you also can’t live without it. And that’s because fat is an important energy provider that also helps us absorb important vitamins such as A, D, E and K.
Jun 22nd, 2021
The Healing Power of Nature

The Healing Power of Nature
One only needs to read a few lines from poets such as Frost, Wordsworth, and Thoreau to recognize the love for and connection to nature human beings have always had. Nature stirs our souls and imagination and brings beauty to our everyday lives.
Jun 15th, 2021
4 Signs You Might be Struggling with Depression

4 Signs You Might be Struggling with Depression
It’s natural to feel down or anxious from time to time. What’s not natural, however, is prolonged feelings of hopelessness and despair. When these emotions grab hold, and won’t let go, it is likely you may have depression.
Jun 1st, 2021
What No One Tells You About Therapy (But Should!)

What No One Tells You About Therapy (But Should!)
It is said we fear the unknown, which is why many people shy away from receiving therapy. It can be intimidating walking into your therapist’s office for the very first time, not knowing what to expect.
May 25th, 2021
Coping with Working from Home During COVID-19

Coping with Working from Home During COVID-19
While in theory working from home may seem ideal, the reality for many of us is that it’s, well, kind of a pain. Particularly if you have young children home from school that you now have to teach while still keeping productive at work.
May 11th, 2021
Are You Doing Self-Care All Wrong?

Are You Doing Self-Care All Wrong?
The topic of self-care is one that has been discussed openly and often over the past decade. But for many, the concept of self-care is one that is still a bit mysterious, if not downright confusing.
May 4th, 2021
4 Powerful Immunity Boosters

4 Powerful Immunity Boosters
As we continue to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic, many of us are wondering how we can boost our immune systems. You most likely know you should take more Vitamin C, but here are some other ways you can give your immunity a powerful boost.
Apr 6th, 2021
Can Meditation Improve Our Mental Health?

Can Meditation Improve Our Mental Health?
Meditation has been practiced around the world for thousands of years. It is only fairly recently, however, that people in the West have embraced the practice, and even more recently that health practitioners have taken meditation seriously as a treatment
Mar 26th, 2021
The Link Between Diet and Mental Health

The Link Between Diet and Mental Health
You may have heard the expression, “You are what you eat”, but you may not know that what you eat could be the very root of your mental health. Your brain is always processing and transmitting information, and it requires a great deal of energy to do this.
Mar 6th, 2021