How to Identify If a Child Is Questioning Their Gender

How to Identify If a Child Is Questioning Their Gender

Children questioning their gender is normal behavior and may signal that your child is trans, nonbinary, gender nonconforming, or just exploring their creativity. It’s important to treat this as not “just a phase” but as valid experimentation.

Depressed After College Graduation? You Aren’t Alone

Depressed After College Graduation? You Aren’t Alone

If you’re struggling with after college graduation depression, you’re not alone. You may be feeling like this now, but you won’t feel like this forever. Change takes time. There are a few things you can do on your end to try to help cope with how you’re feeling.

Can Reparenting Yourself Help Ease Anxiety?

Can Reparenting Yourself Help Ease Anxiety?

One possible cause for high anxiety is having childhood issues (or trauma) that were never resolved. Let’s say you weren’t nurtured and cared for in the way you needed. If you were not effectively parented in your earliest days, you might internalize that treatment as a statement of your value.

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How EMDR Works for Complicated Trauma

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How EMDR Works for Complicated Trauma

Complicated traumas are difficult to escape from, and those who have lived through such experiences have a more challenging time finding peace and coping. EMDR is a method used by therapists to assist people in processing and healing from their trauma experiences.

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Understanding the Lasting Effects of Birth Trauma

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Understanding the Lasting Effects of Birth Trauma

What is known as birth trauma can result from a physical, psychological, and/or emotional experience before, during, or after giving birth. Once this happens, just like any other traumatic event, it can be difficult to process and live life without fear, flashbacks, and hypervigilance.

4 Ways to Deal With Anxiety As a POC

4 Ways to Deal With Anxiety As a POC

BIPOC carry additional risk factors compared to the average white American impacting onset of anxiety. Top that with certain stigmas that are carried as well; it can be hard to navigate and feel very lonely. Learning how to manage anxiety when it occurs is key to getting through it. Here are some ways to start.

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Why do we have emotions?

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Why do we have emotions?

Many of us were taught not to listen to our emotions or our bodies, and that we were supposed to rule them with our minds. This cut many of us off from these sources of wisdom, guidance, and protection. Women are often told we’re too emotional and that’s why we can’t be in leadership. Men are often taught that being too emotional is a weakness. But from this perspective, couldn’t we take being emotional as a compliment? 

Why do Trauma Survivors have Intimacy and Attachment Issues?

Why do Trauma Survivors have Intimacy and Attachment Issues?

This dichotomy shows up in our adult relationships in several ways. Often we can feel the strong desire and need for relating while still carrying the need for keeping oneself safe. It can be extremely confusing to ourselves and others. We want to draw close but push others away or create space and safety sometimes without even knowing it. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver.

How Chronic Illness Can Cause Depression

How Chronic Illness Can Cause Depression

Chronic illness and depression have a very fine line between them. There are many balls in the air; if one falls, it can easily trigger depression. If you are living with a chronic condition, it is important to watch for signs of strained mental health.

How Chronic Illness Can Cause Anxiety

How Chronic Illness Can Cause Anxiety

When you’re living with a chronic illness, it is natural to begin to have anxiety about the future. What will progression look like? How will symptoms evolve? Will there be a burden on your family? How will you afford to manage your health and daily activities? Worrying about any of these things can cause you to feel anxious, let alone worry about multiple factors. Treatment options exist to combat any anxiety you may have and allow you to be as mentally focused as possible to push through your chronic illness and find joy in living your life.

How to Cope With Earthquake Vicarious Trauma

How to Cope With Earthquake Vicarious Trauma

If you’ve been watching the scenes coming out of Turkey and Syria you’ve probably been affected. Maybe you are even experiencing vicarious trauma. Vicarious trauma happens when you feel emotional pain, terror, fear and helplessness from exposure to others peoples’ trauma. For instance, imagining what it’s like to be stuck under rubble from the earthquake, losing your entire family or becoming homeless.

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