The Power of Restorative Rest: How it Heals Anxiety and Trauma
Restorative rest is essential for recharging the body and mind, activating the parasympathetic nervous system to reduce stress, tension, and inflammation while promoting long-term physical and emotional health. Unlike passive scrolling or idle relaxation, restorative rest involves intentional practices like eating slowly, walking mindfully, or putting your phone away to signal safety to the brain and regulate the nervous system. Prioritizing rest isn’t lazy—it’s a powerful investment in productivity, creativity, and overall well-being.
Regulating Big Emotions
Have you ever experienced a time where you were so upset that nothing you seemed to try could work to help calm you down? TIPP is a DBT skill that activates our parasympathetic nervous system to help us rest and slow down by regulating our emotions.
Finding the Right Therapist for Your Teen
Finding a therapist can be hard, finding the right therapist for your teen may feel extremely overwhelming. In this article, we discuss what is important to keep in mind when looking for the right therapist for your teen.
Helping Teens Manage Their Stress Holistically
Stress presents itself differently in adolescents than in adults and can sometimes be overlooked. Today we will take a closer look at signs of stress in adolescents and then review ways to holistically help decrease your child’s stress.
Avoiding Burnout and Finding Deep Rest
On avoiding burnout, challenging “hustle” culture, and deepening our relationship with rest and ourselves for mental wellbeing.
Nonviolent Communication in Relationships
Nonviolent Communication: Returning home to our needs, practicing deep listening, and finding our way through conflict.
The Mindful Scroll
A discussion onsocial media, comparison, and how to mitigate some of the less-than-ideal effects of too much time scrolling on mental health.
How to Build a Gratitude Practice
Practicing gratitude around the holidays can be helpful in allowing us to savor our experiences as well as the people who support us. Research shows that gratitude can result in a number of benefits for us. Research has found that gratitude is linked to improvement in mood, positive relationships, adaptive personality traits, as well as improvements in sleep and stress (Wood, et. al, 2010).