What Strategies Improve Your Mental Health?

What Strategies Improve Your Mental Health?

Just like physical health, you need to attend to your mental health, too. However when life gets busy or requires a lot from us, it is all too easy to ignore how you’re feeling and push aside your needs. At best, this leads to burnout, which no one has time for. At...
Could Artificial Intelligence Replace Therapy?

Could Artificial Intelligence Replace Therapy?

I asked Claude.ai was, “could AI replace therapy?” The response? “AI has the potential to assist in therapy, but likely cannot fully replace human therapists any time soon.” It went on to list the reasons why, in typical boring unengaging AI fashion, alluding to what...
Why Do I Need Therapy? I Can Talk to Friends & Family, for Free!

Why Do I Need Therapy? I Can Talk to Friends & Family, for Free!

You have probably heard people say this before. In fact, maybe you’re one of them, “why should I go to therapy? “What’s the point of wasting money talking to a stranger?  I can talk to friends or family for free” Now, there is no denying it. There are absolutely...
When Things Get Hard – Do You Quit, or Stay in It?

When Things Get Hard – Do You Quit, or Stay in It?

Learning and implementing a new skill is easy! Just kidding. In fact, it’s such a challenge for so many of us that trying to teach others how to stay the course pays off – literally. Just look at self-improvement. It has grown into a $13 billion industry. When it...
How Do I Recover from Trauma?

How Do I Recover from Trauma?

Here’s a harsh reality: sometimes, the aftermath of a traumatic event, the residual lingering trauma, can be just as bad (if not worse!) than the event itself. Wounding affects us all in different ways. It exists as part of a spectrum; and can involve a variety of...
Post Pandemic: Do People Have More Anxiety Now?

Post Pandemic: Do People Have More Anxiety Now?

Life before. Remember how innocent we all were? Most of us could never have conceived of what happened. It’s safe to say the pandemic shook us all. It changed almost every aspect of life. Things once totally taken for granted – dismissed as “normal” – vanished....