Finding Acceptance in a Social Media Post Written by: Kimberly Harkey, MEd, LPC-S If you’ve often felt misunderstood, unable to fit in, outcast, or not accepted by others, five minutes of scrolling in social media will help you find at least 5 labels and maybe even a diagnosis to describe yourself. Introverted? Ambivert? Highly Sensitive [...]
Redefining Rest Written By: Kimberly Harkey, M.Ed., LPC-S I’ve recently seen many self care shops selling things that say ‘Rest is productive', but is rest productive? It always makes me take a long pause. I first notice how resentful I feel that even my rest has to be productive. Why can’t my rest be unproductive? [...]
First Demi Lovato, Michael Phelps, and Jen Hatmaker. Now Ariana Grande is the latest celebrity to partner with BetterHelp to "give away" therapy. It seems that a lot of celebs lately are "partnering" (and mind you these are paid partnerships) with large digital mental health platforms. These celebs are all such an influence in other [...]
By Kristen Suleman, M.Ed., LPC Full disclosure: not knowing what I was doing used to absolutely terrify me. I avoided this feeling at all costs. And the more I avoided this feeling, the more terrified of it I became over time. (Funny how that works, isn’t it?). I have spent a lot of my [...]
My Client Wants To Talk Career Counseling! HELP! I don’t know about you, but career counseling was not big in my graduate degree. I had a summer class crammed with information, but it wasn’t until I had an internship at my university’s career center that I truly saw what career counseling was all about. It [...]
Turning Towards to Move With: A How-to on Dealing with Emotions Written By: Leah J. Singer, M.Ed., LPC, RYT-200 “This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a [...]
Things have been rough lately, haven't they? Mental health professionals, like me, are not exempt from that. We also don't have a magical solution to protecting our personal mental health. We have to put in the same work that we tell you to do. We have to keep a list of things that help with [...]
Navigating the Pandemic Productivity Myth During Your Time-off This Holiday Season Written by: Kristen Suleman, M.Ed., LPC For many of us, we are smack dab in the middle of that strange time each year between Christmas and New Years' – otherwise known as “The Holiday Week When No One Knows What Day It Is”. [...]
COVID, Online Dating, and the Anxious-Avoidant Cycle Written By: SJ Knowlton, M.Ed., LPC-Intern If you haven’t read Gabi’s great blog about the book Attached feel free to get a refresher on attachment styles before reading this. But if you’re only up for one blog today, I’ll be doing a quick recap of attachment styles for [...]
Riding the Coronacoaster Written by: Kristen Suleman, M.Ed., LPC Coronacoaster. n. The ups and downs of a pandemic; the feeling of uncertainty, anxiety, and helplessness surveying news and information concerning humankind's possible demise from COVID-19. The past 4 months have been a wild ride for all of us, to say the least. Riding the [...]
