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Home for the Holidays: Prioritizing Emotional Wellbeing During Holiday Stress
The holiday season often brings a mix of joy, connection, and celebration. Yet for many, it can also introduce stress, fatigue, and emotional strain. Balancing family expectations, social gatherings, and personal responsibilities can leave little room for rest and reflection. At Behavioral Wellness Group, we recognize the importance of maintaining emotional wellbeing during this busy time of year. To help you navigate the season with greater ease, here are three key strategies inspired by Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) to support emotional balance…
Building Toward Self-Trust: A Path of Therapeutic Growth
Many of us begin therapy with the hope of feeling more confident. It’s a very natural desire — to feel steady, capable, and less ruled by self-doubt. And…confidence doesn’t usually come first. Often, what we call confidence is a mask we’ve learned to wear when we don’t feel safe inside. True therapeutic growth builds differently. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs reminds us that self-actualization only becomes possible once our basic needs are secure. The path toward emotional healing follows a similar…
Managing Political Situations
A study published by the AP- NORC Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Chicago reported that 65 percent of adults need to limit their media consumption on the government and politics due to overload or fatigue. AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. “Most adults feel the need to limit political news consumption due to fatigue and information overload” (December 2024). But how can we continue to stay informed on present day issues happening in our country and…
Parents, Teens and Mental Health
As a mental health professional, I have worked with families, teens and young adults for over a decade. One thing that I repeatedly see is the power struggle parents have with their children. More specifically, about their mental health treatment. It’s common to have a parent call me to either get their child into the Adolescent IOP or into individual therapy to help their child who is maybe self-harming or struggling with suicidal thoughts and impulsivity only to have their…