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What is Anxiety and How to Cope with It?

Anxiety is the human body's response to stress. Feeling anxiety and disturbance is a normal and natural phenomenon. We can feel anxious...

6 Ways that Alcohol Makes Depression Worse

A great many alcoholics are also suffering from major depression. Because alcohol can feed our brain’s serotonin receptors, it can make...

Could I Benefit From IFS, or Internal Family Systems?

IFS, or Internal Family Systems, is a complex yet highly effective therapeutic modality designed by Richard Schwartz. The IFS Institute...

What is Mental Health and How to Take Care of It

Mental health supports our well-being every day. Unfortunately, many people do not think about and are not even interested in the state...

5 Strategies to Calm Your Anxiety Quickly

When you live with an anxiety disorder, any moment can become one that creates a slow-rising panic within you. Life is normal one second...

What is PTSD?

Post-Traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that typically occurs after individuals have experienced or witnessed a...

Ways that Compassion Can Help You Support a Loved One Suffering from Addiction

It can often be difficult to know how to navigate a relationship that is tainted by addiction. Often, loved ones are told that helping an...

Is Telehealth the Future of Therapy?

As a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, many therapists have had to quickly pivot and offer their clients online sessions in an effort...