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If you are looking for extra support and guidance through a challenging situation, or you’re just ready to move in a new direction in your life, we are looking forward to working with you to achieve your goals. We have carefuly crated resources and articles to help you.

Mental Immunity

Examining Race-Based Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress

Can exposure to race-based trauma lead to post traumatic stress disorder?

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Depression

What Is Depression?

The mood disorder may descend seemingly out of the blue, or it may come on the heels of a defeat or personal loss.

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ANXIETY

Suggestions for the Worried Teen

Some major sources of teen stress are more ameliorable than those later in life.

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Anxiety

How Our Safety Behaviors Feed Anxiety

Safety behaviors can interfere with acting your values and learning that feared outcomes are unlikely or not as bad as you think.

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Mental Immunity

3 Signs You Need a Lifestyle Change

Trauma, loss, and hardship often trigger a yearning for lifestyle changes.

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SLEEP

Stress, Sleep & Repeat: Reciprocal Stress-Sleep Associations

The aggregate costs of stress and dysfunctional sleep are substantial from a population perspective, imposing a great burden on society.

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DEPRESION & ANXIETY

The Threat Neurocircuitry That Underlies Depression and Anxiety

Depression and anxiety present in diverse ways, making diagnosis and treatment challenging.

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Anxiety

Over-Accommodating a Child's Anxious Emotions Can Backfire

SPACE helps children and adolescents with anxiety by changing parent behavior.

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SELF-CARE

Using Self-Care to Motivate You

Prioritizing self-care stops us from following “shoulds” to stay healthy.

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ADHD

ADHD Is All About Power, Paradox, and Pain

ADHD is a complex set of contradictory or paradoxical tendencies.

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STRESS

You Don’t Have to Believe Your Thoughts

Learn to question the validity of the stressful stories you tell yourself.

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HEALTH

Find Rest When You Are Weary

It doesn't feel good when your thought processes are tired.

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TRAUMA

Wounded Again: How Past Trauma Can Upend a Relationship

What to do if you feel an episode of past trauma recurring.

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MINDFULLNESS

Mindfulness

Mindfulness has become mainstream.

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COGNITION

Are You Thinking Too Much?

Do you find you are thinking about too many things?

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MENTAL HEALTH

Rest Your Weary Head

Too much on your mind? Clear it out.

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COGNITION

See Good Intentions

By recognizing positive intentions we feel safer, supported, and happier.

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MENTAL HEALTH

Let Things Change

Accept change while doing what you can to help things change for the better.

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MINDFULLNESS

Fixing the Productivity Mindset

Cultivating awareness in the "full catastrophe" of parenting and life.

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GRIEF

Processing Grief

Steps you can take to help yourself through the grieving process.

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ANGER

5 Symptoms of Repressed Anger

What repressed anger looks like.

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MINDFULLNESS

Drop the "Shoulds"

When healthy inclinations become "shoulds" "musts" then there is a big problem.

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Mental Immunity

The Surprisingly Deep Roots of Mental Immunity Research

A revolutionary understanding of the human mind has been hiding in plain sight.

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