January Mental Health Check-In: Questions Everyone Should Ask Themselves (Before the Year Picks Up Speed)
January often brings stress, fatigue, and reflection. This gentle mental health check-in offers grounding questions and therapy support in New Bern and online.
Pop Culture, Neurodivergence, and What’s Getting Lost in the Conversation
Neurodivergence is everywhere in pop culture, but important context often gets lost. This article explores what’s helpful, what’s oversimplified, and how therapy can support clarity without rushing to labels.
Grounding Techniques for Anxiety
A variety of grounding techniques can be easily accessed in your home, at work, or even during your commute to work. We will outline examples of Physical Grounding, Mental Grounding, and Emotional Grounding.
Life Transitions: Navigating Change with Therapy
Changes and transitions are inevitable in our lives. Regardless of the type of transition, therapists can provide support that helps with many types of changes. Career changes, moving, loss, and relationship changes are big life transitions most of us encounter. Therapy can help you navigate changes, allowing you to process changes, heal, and move forward.
The Role of Therapy in Self-discovery
The journey to self-discovery is complex and constantly evolving. However, the most important part is listening to yourself. Therapy can point you in the right direction toward self-discovery. It can be scary, but taking charge of your life, even if there are mistakes along the way, is much more fulfilling than living someone else’s vision for your life.
5 Ways to Prioritize Self-care Without Guilt
At some point, we started believing that laziness is not being productive every minute of the day. Work-life balance became nonexistent, and stress was a measure of success. Falling into this mindset leads to unhappiness, burnout, and ultimately a less productive state. Self-care can lead to finding the best version of ourselves.
Hidden Connection: Addiction and Unresolved Emotion
Unresolved emotion and trauma are often at the root of addiction, no matter what it looks like. Substance and behavioral addiction are equally serious and both require treatment from a mental health professional. Healing from trauma and addiction may require working with multiple practitioners and treatment plans. Be patient with yourself and the process. Years of unprocessed emotion take time to work through and process.
Military Life and Mental Health: Support for Yourself and Family
Mental Health is such an important tool for those serving in the military. Service members and their families deal with transitions, instability, financial stress, and separation and integration. A strong mental health routine and a support therapist can give military families the strength they need to thrive in this lifestyle.
Decision Fatigue and Anxiety: Break Free From Overthinking
We have all felt stress and anxiety at one time or another. However, decision fatigue can lead to or exacerbate existing anxiety. When we are bogged down by decision fatigue, we risk shutting down completely.
From Surviving to Thriving with Therapy
Living in Survival Mode Do you often ever feel that you’re just going through the motions of life but not really living? You check off your list of obligations: Going to work, completing tasks, getting to the gym, making appointments, taking kids to practices, and maintaining required social commitments. Sometimes it’s easy to get caught […]