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Ways to Foster Play as an Adult
July 1, 2025
Adult Counseling art therapy
Ways to Foster Play as an Adult

Embracing play as an adult can significantly enhance your wellbeing and creativity. It's easy to get locked into the boredom of a daily routine and miss out on…

Challenge Yourself
June 1, 2025
Adult Counseling boundaries
Challenge Yourself

Dismantling the Oppressive Beliefs that Live Within Ourselves When thinking about oppression we typically focus on external systems—societal structures, policies and the actions of individuals in power. However,…

Improve Your Mental Health
May 1, 2025
Adult Counseling Anxiety
Improve Your Mental Health

In the rush of daily life, we tend to focus on everything else except ourselves. When I'm juggling an urgent to-do list (The kids have wild school and…

Self Regulation Tools and Techniques
April 2, 2025
ADHD Adult Counseling
Self Regulation Tools and Techniques

In our fast-paced world, maintaining emotional regulation is an important tool to support our overall wellbeing. Whether you're facing everyday stressors or more significant challenges, having tools at…

Spring Rebirth: Grow into a Healthier Life
March 1, 2025
Dana Rivera Habits
Spring Rebirth: Grow into a Healthier Life

Spring is a time of renewal. A time we get to slowly awaken, regrow, restart. The process of growth is a slow one. Let’s take a flower for…

Connection, Community, Humanity
February 1, 2025
Adult Counseling Anxiety
Connection, Community, Humanity

We live in a world that often encourages, promotes and expects us to think of ourselves. What do we need? What works best for us? Me, me, me…

New Year, New You? 
January 29, 2025
Adult Counseling Anxiety
New Year, New You? 

A new year is a fresh year to ‘start over.’ It tends to be a time where people remind themselves of all the things they want to do,…

3 Ways to Increase Self-Compassion
November 9, 2021
Habits self care
3 Ways to Increase Self-Compassion

You know the saying, “I’m my own worst enemy,”? Sometimes that’s true. Many of us are a lot harder on ourselves than we are on anyone else, and…

3 Easy Practices to Try this Mental Health Month
May 10, 2021
Habits self care
3 Easy Practices to Try this Mental Health Month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Mental Health Awareness month was started all the way back in 1949, as a way to increase awareness about the significance of…

Daily Habits to Help Manage Anxiety
February 21, 2020
Anxiety Habits
Daily Habits to Help Manage Anxiety

If you’ve ever lived with anxiety, you know that it’s a daily struggle. We all feel stressed out from time to time, sure, but stress and chronic anxiety…

Procrastination: What It Is and How to Manage It
January 17, 2020
Anxiety Habits
Procrastination: What It Is and How to Manage It

What is procrastination?  Procrastination, simply, is the process of habitually putting things off.  When we procrastinate, instead of doing what should be done in the moment, we find…

Cubs Win and So Can You! Life Lessons from The Stands – Changing the Way You Think
June 14, 2018
Andrea Picard Habits
Cubs Win and So Can You! Life Lessons from The Stands – Changing the Way You Think

108 years passed until the Cubs won the World Series in 2016. That’s a long time. More than a lifetime of waiting for most. Years of struggles, crushed…