5 Ways To Talk To Kids About Depression
Talking to your kids about depression and mental illness, no matter what age they are, is a very daunting task. But the reality is, with the onset of quarantine, depression and teen suicide rates are soaring higher than ever, making it really important for us as parents to be addressing this with our kids, no matter how difficult it is. Millions of people struggle with depression every year making it imperative for us to talk to our...
6 Tips For Working With Difficult People
We have talked before about understanding and communicating with difficult people; learning to work with them is just the next step. Knowing that 85% of our financial success is due to our personal skills, it is important to keep learning and understanding difficult people – because they are everywhere!!! You can read here more about the science and genetics behind difficult people. In an effort to understand them which will allow us...
What You Need To Know About Kids And Depression
It is natural for kids to experience emotional ups and downs just like adults. They, like us, have good days and bad days, positive thoughts and negative ones. But when these feelings and thoughts stick around for a long time, it may in fact be depression. The number of children with depression and anxiety is increasing, especially with the onset of quarantine. Currently 4% of children between the ages of 3 and 17 have a diagnosis of...
The Benefits Of Travel On PTSD and C-PTSD
Science and experience are showing us daily that travel is no longer just for recreation! The evidence suggests that when it comes to recovering from trauma, mental illness or addiction, traveling can have undeniable benefits on PTSD and C-PTSD; on our mental health in whole. Just as different herbal medicines can help relieve and heal our physical pain, travel helps with our mental pain. Travel, stepping outside of your comfort zone,...
How To Help A Loved One With PTSD and C-PTSD
Watching a loved one struggling with PTSD,C-PTSD, and depression is confusing, sometimes scary and all around really hard to do. Given that the effects of trauma are unique to each person, it can be tricky to identify PTSD and C-PTSD; which often times, causes major problems within family life and with friends. And to make it even more difficult, the effects of these can come right after trauma, a few months after trauma to even years...
Female Pioneers In The Mental Health Industry
In celebrating Women’s History Month, there are 5 females that made huge leaps for us that I would love to share with you. When many of us think about the mental health industry, it’s mostly men that come up in our minds. But so many women made equally if not more important contributions to understanding the human mind. And I think Women’s History Month is the perfect time to talk about them! Female Pioneers In The Mental Health...
What Is C-PTSD?
We have talked about depression, trauma, and PTSD; now we are going to discuss Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD). Recently C-PTSD is becoming more recognized in the mental health community. C-PTSD is caused by repeated trauma over months or years rather than one single traumatic event. It can also evolve from untreated/mistreated depression and PTSD. Though C-PTSD and PTSD are very similar, C-PTSD is considerably...
The Secrets of Sulpher Springs Season Finale on Disney+
Tomorrow night is the season finale of The Secrets of Sulphur Springs on Disney at 8pm EST. Will we get our answers, or will the mystery continue on to hopefully season 2 or even a movie (just a suggestion Disney!!). The charisma this cast has with the super fun story line, The Secrets of Sulphur Springs is a truly binge-worthy family show that speaks to every age. We watch a family leave the big city and everything they know to go...
Sharing The Journey With Moving The Human Spirit
As the celebration of Women in History continues with International Women’s Day today, I want to take some time to appreciate and share the journey, the freedoms, the rights that many of us girls take for granted today. It wasn’t too long ago that women could not vote, were not entitled to equal pay, were not even welcomed as part of the integral workforce or schools that shaped this country (or most countries for that matter). We...
5 Things You Can Do Today To Support Your Teens Mental Health
Did you know that the teen suicide rate has skyrocketed during quarantine? As the isolation has affected every adult, teens, tweens, and kids are suffering too with one in four of our kids in the USA having thought about suicide since the onset of the quarantine. It is heart breaking to read the statistics on suicide rates, it is brutal when I hear about another mom returning home, thinking their child is ok, to find them passed. So,...