How Diet Affects Mental Health Watching what you eat can be a great supplement to medication or traditional talk therapy and can be a great approach to self-care. There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that supports the benefits of a healthy diet on a person’s mental health. Researchers continue to study the benefits of […]
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Couples – “Fair Fighting” — Transcription Hi everyone! I know it’s Wednesday, I’m a day late, so sorry about that. Things got a little hectic yesterday. So I did want to jump on here though and answer one of your questions. So I’m getting a lot of questions about couples and fighting. I think with quarantine with
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Night Time Anxiety — Transcription Hi, lovely people and happy Tuesday! Today we’re going to talk about “Night Time Anxiety” because I have actually heard this a lot from people that they experienced this anxiety that hits right before they’re ready to go to sleep. I know that there are times when you’re ready to
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Hi there! Welcome back. Hope everyone is joining this cold snowy weather. If you’re in Chicago, like me, otherwise, if you’re in a warmer place, I’m very jealous of you. So today I’m going to talk about election stress. So obviously we have the election coming up and there’s a lot of stress around that emotionally and socially
Holiday Stress & Anxiety — Transcription Hi, everyone and Happy Thanksgiving week. Speaking of Thanksgiving, I have had a few requests for how to manage stress during this holiday season, since things are probably going to be a little bit different than we’re used to. So a couple of things to keep in mind, the first one
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Theresa Simon founder of NDV Healing & Support Inc. interviews Ilene Kastel about Relationships and Trauma and Trauma Informed Therapy. https://anchor.fm/ndvhealing/episodes/Season-1-Episode-16–Engaging-interview-with-Ilene-Kastel–MA–LCPC–Ace Counseling Group–who-discusses-the-importance-of-a-trauma-informed-trained-therapist-el79bl/a-a1ptlh
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New Year Goals — Transcription Hi, everyone!. Happy new year and Happy 2021! So today I’m going to talk about New Year’s resolutions. So raise your hand if you’ve ever set a New Year’s resolution and quit within the first month – I’m sure that’s a lot of you. And honestly, it’s actually really common
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Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and Depression — Transcription Hi, everyone! Happy to say today, I’m going to talk about Seasonal Affective Disorder (or “SAD”) as well as Depression or more specifically COVID-19 Depression, since that’s pretty much what we’re dealing with at this point. So Seasonal Affective Disorder is a type of Depression that is that happens or occurs when the seasons
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Misconceptions of Therapy — Transcription Hello, again, everyone today! I’m going to be talking about misconceptions of therapy. I don’t know if you saw my Instagram story, but I asked some of you what your misconceptions of therapy are or what you’ve heard. So I’m going to answer some of them and also some that I’ve have also
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Therapeutic Process — Transcription Hi, everyone happy Tuesday and happy December! I can’t believe it’s December already, but it is this week. I had a lot of questions about what Therapy entails. I actually, when I do my initial consult with clients, I get this question a lot. Especially if someone hasn’t been in Therapy before to
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