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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: 5 Things You Should Know About It
CBT is an approach that focuses on how our thinking patterns influence our behavioral patterns. The main idea behind CBT is that thoughts influence how we feel and act. Basically: how we act can in turn also affect how we think and feel in a given situation, and our unhelpful thoughts can then lead to unhealthy behaviors and feelings. CBT helps you to understand and break this cycle.
What You Should Know About EMDR
Are you interested in EMDR? Our clinicians at Hope+Wellness offer EMDR therapy in our office and online.
Don't Know What You're Feeling? Try This.
There are so many moments we find ourselves not knowing what we’re feeling–maybe because we haven’t taken enough time to sit with it, or maybe because we’re feeling something in a context we’ve never felt it before–or maybe because many of us aren’t taught to recognize and have compassion for what we’re feeling when we’re feeling it. So how do we identify what we’re feeling if we don’t have the vocabulary for it?
7 Tips for Coping with Parenting Stress
Are you struggling with stress as a parent? Explore ways to cope with parenting stress and anxiety so you don’t feel so burned out.
How Mindful Communication Can Improve Your Relationships
There are many benefits to mindfulness, including the ways that mindful communication can enhance relationships. Here are 4 ways that mindful communication can help you improve the relationships that matter to you:
How Can My Therapist Help with My Chronic Pain?
Suffering from chronic pain, or having a chronic illness with severe physical symptoms might not seem like the kind of thing you can go to a therapist for, but a therapist can be a key element of your chronic pain management.
While your illness or pain may be physically located in your body, that doesn’t mean it’s entirely separate from your mental health. In fact, mental and physical health are incredibly linked. So, when your mental health suffers, your physical health often suffers, and vice versa.
Why Is It So Hard to Build New Habits?
Sometimes, even when we try to make sure we’re following best practices or practical advice for establishing new habits, we still can’t get there. Let’s explore some reasons it can so hard to latch onto new habits.
Five Tools For Managing Loneliness and Building Connection
The problem with loneliness is that it tricks us into thinking we’re the only one who feels that way, that everyone else is happy and connected and supported by their friends, loved ones, and community, and out of shame we end up isolating, only making the loneliness worse. But the truth is most of us feel lonely every now and then.
How Can Therapy Help Me Navigate Big Life Changes?
It’s a cliche but it’s true: change is the only constant. So why does it always feel like such an insurmountable task? In therapy, along with navigating crises as they come up and exploring your internal experience, you get the chance to practice skills that make it easier to navigate life transitions when they come up.
How to Improve Sleep When You Deal With Chronic Pain
If you deal with chronic pain, you know how important sleep can be to helping you feel better. Discover tips to improve your sleep even when in pain.
Hope+Wellness is a mental health practice specializing in the treatment of depression, mood, stress, and anxiety in kids, teens, and adults. This is a blog about living well and finding meaning and purpose in the face of difficult challenges. This is a blog about finding hope.
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