How to Map Your Nervous System
In this blog, we begin to provide a detailed description and guided practice of how to map your nervous system. Mapping your nervous system practice involves developing a deeper understanding of how your body responds to stress, relaxation, and everyday stimuli. By observing bodily sensations, emotional responses, and thought patterns, you create a personalized framework that helps you navigate your nervous system's unique landscapes. Let's begin to build awareness from the inside out.
How to Find a Sense of Purpose and Meaning in Life
Many of us struggle with finding purpose and meaning in life. But don't worry, there are ways to discover what truly matters to you and live a life full of purpose. Whether it's through exploring your passions, helping others, or making a positive impact on the world, you can find the direction and motivation you need to live a meaningful life. Let’s explore in more detail.
How to Build an Abundance Mindset
Cultivating an abundance mindset is crucial for achieving success and happiness in life. It is a mindset that focuses on the possibilities rather than limitations and believes that there is always enough to go around. By adopting an abundance mindset, you can overcome fear and scarcity thinking that hold you back from pursuing your dreams. Instead, you will be more open to new opportunities, embrace challenges, and see failures as opportunities for growth.
The Symptoms and Experience of Anxiety
If you're experiencing symptoms of anxiety, you're not alone. Anxiety affects millions of people around the world. However, there are holistic approaches you can take to manage and alleviate anxiety symptoms. By adopting a holistic approach to addressing your anxiety, you can cultivate a greater sense of calm, balance, and overall wellness. Let’s explore in more detail.
How to Stop Overthinking: 10 Ways to Decrease the Habit
Overthinking can be a major obstacle to productivity, creativity, and overall happiness. It can lead to feelings of anxiety, self-doubt, and indecisiveness. In this blog post, we'll explore practical tips for overcoming it. By learning to recognize and manage your overthinking tendencies, you can improve your mental health and gain more control over your life. Don't let overthinking hold you back any longer - read on to learn how to break free from this harmful habit.
How to Create a Life Worth Living: Part 2
Discover how to create a life worth living with our latest blog post. We delve into the key ingredients that make up a fulfilling life and explore practical strategies for achieving your goals. From setting intentions to cultivating meaningful relationships, our holistic approach to living will inspire you to take action and lead a purposeful life. Read on to find out more.
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.
Holistic Couples Therapy
Holistic approaches to relationship counseling offer a comprehensive perspective on strengthening couples' bonds by addressing the psychological, physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of their connection. This method stresses the importance of enhancing connection to resolve underlying issues.
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.
Grounding: the Benefits and the Practice
Grounding encompasses simple tactics aimed at disengaging from emotional distress. These tactics include distractions directing our attention outward, to the external world. They also are helpful to bring us back to the present moment.
What is Vagal Toning?
Part two in our two-part series about the Nervous System! We’ll explore the vagus nerve, the definition of vagal tone, and practices to regulate our nervous system.
An Introduction to Understanding Your Nervous System
Take some time to learn what is happening in your nervous system. We explain the purpose of your nervous system, how it impacts you on a day to day, and explain polyvagal theory. Gain a better understanding of how the mind and body are connected and influence each other.
6 Ways to Overcome a Breakup
Going through a breakup can be an emotional and difficult time, and it's important to take care of yourself during this period. Here are six ways you support yourself holistically during this time.
How to Shift the Inner Critic Mindset
Our inner critic is often fueled by cognitive distortions which are internal mental filters and biases that often leave us second guessing ourselves as well as feeling badly about ourselves. Learn how you can use the 4 C’s to modify these unhelpful thoughts and change the way your inner critic speaks to yourself.
Inflammation and Your Mental Health
We continue the conversation with naturopathic doctor, Dr. Kelsey Myers, as she discusses the bidirectional relationship inflammation and mental health.
Inflammation: What You Need to Know & How to Reduce it
Our naturopathic doctor, Dr. Kelsey Myers, breaks down what inflammation is and small changes you can make to you daily life that can help improve this problem.
Creating a Life Worth Living is the only Resolution You Need
Creating a life worth living is all about finding pleasure in the small moments of our everyday life. By identifying our values and the small things that bring joy and contentment in our everyday life, we are able to create a life worth living.
What is Brainspotting? Let’s explore this mind-body treatment.
Brainspotting is a mind-body therapy that can allow for more rapid and deeper processing. This method is a bit different than traditional talk therapy in that you and your therapist are using eye locations to access deeper regions of your brain as well as your body.
Holistic Healing: Massage Therapy
Our massage therapist, Nicki, uses a science-based approach to provide customized massages. She specializes in Neuromuscular Therapy, which studies how the brain and muscles communicate with each other and create referral pain patterns in the body. These patterns can be created by habitual daily movements, or from traumatic experiences that create patterns of muscle contraction as a protective barrier.