Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is another form of cognitive behavioral therapy that emphasizes increasing a person’s functionality despite mental health symptoms, chronic pain, of life stress. But what are the benefits of ACT therapy? How can ACT help you in your life? ACT therapy has been shown to alleviate many different challenges in an …
Stress is an innate part of life. However, learning to manage family stress during the holidays can be a challenge. Family dynamics themselves can be stressful. However, these can be amplified when considering how past trauma, difficult personalities, addiction, or not being accepted by family members impact interpersonal dynamics during the holidays. Past Trauma This …
With the pace of our world and the traumas in the news, our lives are moving faster than ever. Our mental health responses sometimes range between internalization, which can lead to implosion or externalization, which lead to explosion. No which way is better than the other, we often learn how to manage stressors and mental …
After three years of pause, student loan payments are set to restart in October 2023. Many people have unintentionally forgotten how much student debt costs and now experience stress around these repayments restarting. The Intermingled Web Financial stress can easily affect other areas of people’s lives. It can be difficult to separate out the effects …
The world is filled with stressors from the war in Ukraine to severe weather, and wildfires. Not to mention interest rates and the economy. All of these single or combined stressors can influence our mood and destabilize our nervous system. Not only does current events cause us current stress, these situations can also activate past …
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Are you stressed about the economy? Most people have felt the crunch of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates to their highest point in decades. We begin to feel the stress on our wallets as these rate hikes trickle through our economy. The news headlines paint a rough picture with unemployment increasing and layoffs around …
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