Read This if You Have Strong Feelings: Grounding Skills
Life is full of big, overwhelming feelings. We get in fights with our romantic partners. We get stuck behind terribly slow drivers. We...
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jennrip
Jun 5, 20224 min read
“I’m Exhausted” - Navigating Difficult Conversations about Race
Clicking through the channels, I see varying headlines with the same message- another person of color (POC) gone. I immediately...
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jennrip
May 26, 20225 min read
Creative Outlets for Messy Emotions
Throughout my life, I have often struggled to use words to express my true feelings. Sometimes I simply couldn’t find the right words to...
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jennrip
May 25, 20223 min read
Protecting Your Mental Health
Over the past year, we have constantly heard about the potentially harmful effects of Covid-19 and how to protect ourselves from...
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shayhat
Feb 15, 20222 min read
Acceptance - How to Cope with Things That are Out of Your Control
Here’s a harsh reality that few people are willing to accept - a lot of the things that happen in your life are completely out of your...
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shayhat
Jul 1, 20212 min read
Academic Burnout
If you are a student and you are experiencing insomnia, fatigue, increased irritability, lack of confidence, lack of inspiration and...
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shayhat
Jun 25, 20212 min read
Prioritize Yourself
During my first year of grad school, I got a job as a technician in a retail pharmacy. My FAFSA loan didn’t quite cover all of my...
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shayhat
Jun 25, 20214 min read
Service Animal vs. Emotional Support Animal
The use of emotional support animals (ESA)s are on the rise. Did you know that there are limited places to get a doctor’s letter stating...
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shayhat
Feb 25, 20212 min read
The Next Right Thing
Have you heard the phrase “Do the next right thing?” If not, let me provide some context. It is a song from the 2019 Disney movie Frozen...
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shayhat
Feb 25, 20212 min read
Mindfulness: Just Being
If you’ve spent any time at all studying self-help books, there’s probably been a chapter on mindfulness. Mindfulness is a recent...
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shayhat
Feb 25, 20212 min read
Sacrifice: Who do I want to become?
Have you ever read about sacrifice in the Bible or watched Stannis Baratheon as he was about to sacrifice his daughter to the Lord of...
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shayhat
Feb 25, 20212 min read
Controlling What We Can Control
Do you ever feel like you are stuck in a cycle of circumstances where you feel like you’re losing control? The bills are piling up...
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shayhat
Feb 25, 20212 min read
Being Both
Have you ever felt torn when trying to make a decision? Our current society is extremely supportive of making choices. You can choose to...
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shawles
Jan 15, 20212 min read
Psychological Flexibility
Psychological flexibility--that’s a lot of syllables. At first glance, this phrase may seem to be just more psychobabble jargon. However,...
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shawles
Jan 15, 20212 min read
Stressed Out? Settle Down for Some Self-Care
The COVID-19 pandemic has infected many people’s lives with extra stress. Most of us are already dealing with stress from work, school,...
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shawles
Dec 18, 20204 min read
The Glass is...
Reflecting back on when this global pandemic first reached these United States, I was hoping that it passes quickly, or not stop at all. ...
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shawles
Oct 13, 20203 min read
Life and Direction
While there seems to be a lot of things that I could complain about in this particular season of life, I have made a decision not to do...
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Jessica McCleese
Jun 29, 20203 min read
Stop and Smell the Roses
“Oxygen masks will drop down from above your seat. Place the mask over your mouth and nose, like this. Pull the strap to tighten it. If...
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Jessica McCleese
May 22, 20203 min read
Resilience
It’s no secret that what’s happening these days is tough on everyone. The limits of the human experience are being challenged in ways we...
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