How Substance Abuse Affects Your Mood
Substance abuse can affect every area of your life. Many people turn to substances like drugs or alcohol for relief from mental health conditions, find…
Finding Peace After Porn Addiction: How Therapy Helps
Porn addiction has become more prominent and problematic in recent years than ever before. People who turn to porn often have other underlying issues or struggles that they aren’t actively addressing. Many times, pornography serves as an “outlet” for them.
How ADHD Might Affect Your Adult Relationships
Many adults with ADHD don’t realize how this condition can affect their relationships. After all, ADHD is often thought of as a condition that can affect one’s performance in school or at work.
Your Restlessness Could Turn Into PTSD
Current conditions are a perfect storm for developing PTSD. Learn what PTSD is and how to inoculate yourself against it.
The Anxiety Pandemic
The coronavirus triggered another global pandemic that has spread far more rapidly, infected more people, and whose effects are likely to be felt much longer than COVID-19. Learn how to inoculate yourself from pandemic anxiety.
Why Rest is as Integral to Fulfilling Work as the Work Itself
Michelle Hutchings, MA, LMFT Take a minute and remember the last time you took a legitimate break, had some real rest. Can you remember, or…
My thoughts on school shootings
When a person, country, etc gains a position of power (as the US has) they gradually, subtly think they’re superior to those “under” them. They…
Anyone for a societal reboot?
When we lived in the Appalachian mountains we’d sometimes drive out to Floyd, a small town on the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was indescribably beautiful….
What a loved one struggling with depression needs from you
When Robin Williams died I remember a debate over, ultimately, whether kindness can heal depression. Many felt a natural desire to reconnect with their loved…