After your baby is born, your days should be filled with joy. Then postpartum depression strikes, and suddenly it's incredibly difficult to care for your baby or yourself. Read on for more information about postpartum depression.
May 9th, 2022
After your baby is born, your days should be filled with joy. Then postpartum depression strikes, and suddenly it's incredibly difficult to care for your baby or yourself. Read on for more information about postpartum depression.
The holidays are an ambivalent period for most people, a time for celebration but also for more complicated feelings. We’re here to help you through the challenges this time of year brings.
Many of our patients are asking for advice on how to handle the anxiety and uncertainty surrounding the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The answer we’re all hearing in the news, “It’s too early to know for sure,” while true, isn’t very helpful.
We’ve been hearing from so many patients how tough this school year has been for teens.
With COVID-19 cases rising and uncertainty surrounding its variants, many patients have told us recently that it feels like there’s not a light at the end of the tunnel right now and are reporting poor sleep, fatigue or less productivity at work.
In the best of years, going back to school is one of the most stressful times for families.
With the rise in delta variant cases as kids return to school and fight over mask mandates, the current period is in certain ways more stressful than lockdown. With everything in flux, it may be more difficult to have any kind of routine.
As the world has started to reopen over the last few months, many patients are finding themselves overwhelmed and confused.
Ah! The joys of summer – sun, vacation, bike riding, swimming, and hiking. All good things for our mental health. Generally. The thing is that lots of animals love this time of year, including ticks.
During this reopening period, many of our patients are enjoying summer, yet still feeling anxious about navigating the specifics.
With re-openings and loosened mask restrictions, many patients have told us they have mixed feelings about going back into the world again.
Telehealth: Online video sessions continue to be the most convenient method of meeting for our patients so we are seeing patients in person upon request only.
As we start to emerge from the isolation of the pandemic, the term collective trauma is being used quite a bit to describe what we’ve all been going through.
Knowing when to seek professional help can be difficult. Here are a few questions to help guide your decision.
The unfortunate truth is that eating disorders are prevalent in our society.
The practice of meditation has existed for thousands of years, and it was originally meant to help deepen one’s spiritual self.
As the seasons change and sometimes as the days get shorter, some of us can experience changes in mood and in energy. For some people, this could be signs of “SAD” or Seasonal Affective Disorder.
How to Recognize Depression Feeling down from time to time is a normal part of life, but when emotions such as hopelessness and despair take hold and just won’t go away, you may have depression.
Creating Work-Life Balance Our busy modern lives seem to demand so much from us these days. Everyone is juggling multiple tasks between our work and home lives. Technology seems to make us all available 24/7.
Having a new baby can be such a wonderful time in a woman’s life, but it can also produce some unexpected emotional side effects.
What is Play Therapy? “Because play is a child’s language and toys are a child’s words.” (Landreth 2002)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder that causes individuals to have constant disruptive thoughts or ideas and/or compulsive behavior.
I’ve been “prescribing” meditation to my patients for years but it can be very difficult to establish a regular practice on your own. One of the simplest solutions is Guided Meditation.
We all experience personal challenges and high levels of stress these days and on multiple fronts. We have stress at work where we may be trying to get recognition for our efforts or we want to get ahead.
What are the Different Types of Meditation? There are quite a few different types of meditation to choose from, literally hundreds of distinct ways to practice.
Whenever I speak to my patients about self-healing they usually look at me with that perplexed look that says “you’re the doctor, you spent all those years in training if I thought I could do it myself I wouldn’t be here!”
It sounds like it might be complicated but it’s really quite simple. It is recognizing the child’s feelings and acknowledging those feelings as true and important.
The number of Americans who are sleep-deprived is alarmingly high. According to the National Sleep Foundation, forty-five percent of Americans say that poor or insufficient sleep affected their daily activities at least once in the past seven days.
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” –Winston Churchill
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