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05.10.2022
How I Learned to Stop Avoiding Life
This blog was originally posted on Ten Percent Happier on April 22, 2022 and is reprinted here with permission
Blog post
09.19.2024
4 Strategies When Your Child Refuses to Go to School
With school in full swing for students across the country, parents and caregivers could begin to see signs of school refusal. Rogers Behavioral Health’s Dr. Heather Jones explains how to identify it and provides strategies for helping your child overcome it.
Blog post
09.17.2024
Ask Yourself These 3 Questions to Manage the Roller Coaster of Election Anxiety
It is no surprise that many people feel anxious – we live at a time when ‘breaking news’ occurs multiple times a day. These 3 questions can serve as a useful guide as we try to manage the high anxiety and general roller coaster of emotions that affect us during momentous election periods.
Blog post
09.09.2024
Managing Mental Health and Relationships in an Election Year
What we don’t often think about is how stress and anxiety can significantly increase during an election year and affect everyone’s mental health. Learn more about how to manage this stress and anxiety.
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08.26.2024
Dealing with Election Anxiety? A Psychiatrist Explains how to Channel your Fears and Break out of Tribal Thinking
Media organizations on both sides of the political spectrum recognize that negative news keeps the audience engaged. Whichever news channel you watch, when was the last time you turned away happy, energized and peaceful? More often you end up feeling the whole world is going down in flames.
Blog post
07.19.2024
The Importance of Managing Stress for Health Care Professionals
Health care professionals should take steps to manage their stress, to prevent it from adversely affecting work performance, emotional wellbeing, and health.
Blog post
06.27.2024
The Difference Between Planning and Worrying
Lately, I’ve been noticing the ways that, despite decades of studying worry, my mind can trick me into a ruminative spiral by telling me I am planning or preparing rather than uselessly worrying.
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06.24.2024
Workplace Burnout: Building Awareness and Prevention
Feeling stressed at work? You’re not alone. Physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals are at higher risk for burnout. Learn how to identify and prevent workplace burnout.
Blog post
06.04.2024
The Myth of the Carefree Summer
Instead of striving for the elusive “best summer ever,” focus on creating a meaningful, enriched, and engaged summer experience. Here are my top 10 tips to help you live your summer to the fullest on your own terms.
Blog post
03.21.2024
Helping Children Face Their Worries and Fears: Tips from Two Psychologists
As parents we don’t like or want to see our children struggling. But worries, fears and anxieties are a natural part of life, and we have to understand that children go through these processes just like adults do. But as parents and caregivers, we should also be in tune with the degree, severity, frequency, and nature of our children’s fears and worries and know when a child might need some help.
Blog post
02.05.2024
10 Tips to Empower Your Child to Become a Responsible Social Media User
In a world where technology seamlessly integrates into our daily lives, how does one raise a safe, healthy child given these omnipresent social media influences?
Blog post
01.31.2024
How to Move on From a Breakup: Using "Opposite Action" to Love to Survive Valentine’s Day
Often times, people struggling to move on from a breakup inadvertently act in ways that amplify their emotions of love towards the person, but these urges usually make us feel worse in the long term. So, what can we do? Enter “Opposite Action.”