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10 Steps to Launch a Successful Corporate Wellness Initiative
Organizations are facing increasing challenges in maintaining employee wellbeing, from rising health care costs to declining engagement, retention rates, and aging populations. Wellbeing is no [...]
5 Beginner Mindfulness Exercises You Can Do Anywhere
Are you interested in starting a mindfulness journey and reaping the benefits? Starting a mindfulness practice can feel daunting, but it’s all about keeping it [...]
Popular Mindfulness Exercises to Calm Your Day
Mindfulness has become a bit of a buzzword, but its growing popularity is supported by countless studies showing how beneficial it is to our health [...]
Hope Circles: How to Build Hope Within a Community
Heartbroken and feeling futureless — that is how many of my trauma therapy clients arrived for their first session. In our shared space, I sat [...]
Self-Care for Therapists: 5 Practical Daily Strategies
For therapists, self-care is both a personal necessity and a professional responsibility. The wellbeing of our clients depends, in part, on the balance and presence [...]
Can You Be Too Happy? A Look at Excessive Happiness
Is it possible to have too much of a good thing? In our culture of constantly grasping for more, the idea that you can have [...]
Mentoring: How It Can Help You Get to Where You Want to Be
Mentoring consists of a supportive relationship between two people, where a more experienced person, the mentor, helps guide, advise, and encourage a less experienced person, [...]
14 Top Meditation & Mindfulness Apps to Transform Your Day
If smartphones are used compulsively or constantly, they can be the enemy of mindfulness. You have likely heard from numerous clients about the distraction, doomscrolling, [...]
How an Avoidant Attachment Style Affects Mental Health
Attachment styles shape the way we connect with others, regulate emotions, and navigate all kinds of relationships. Avoidant attachment is one of the four main [...]
Ketamine Therapy: What Is It & How Does It Work?
Ketamine therapy is gaining traction as a transformative intervention for treatment-resistant depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and chronic pain. Ketamine was originally developed as [...]