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Practical Mindfulness During the Holidays
Practical Mindfulness During the Holidays Blogs
Pre-Holiday Anxiety and You: Finances
We are officially jingling and jangling our way through December. The time has come for gift exchanges, cooking, baking, parties, celebrations, and the list goes on. All of these fun things cost money. Financial distress rears its costly head every holiday season,...
Pre-Holiday Anxiety and You: Food + Alcohol
As Thanksgiving wraps up and e-vites for holiday parties and get-togethers start rolling in, you might be panicking at the thought of the overindulging in food and alcohol that is to come. Thanksgiving might’ve been a bit easier to navigate because you only had that...
Pre-Holiday Anxiety and You: Family + Friends
It’s November and the texts start rolling in. It’s time to figure out where you’re going to spend the holidays and schedule events and activities. You’re feeling stressed, and it’s time to make some decisions. As the holidays rapidly approach, navigating the pressures...
Pre-Holiday Anxiety and You
Recently, I came across a reel on Instagram by one of my favorite comedians, Kevin Fredericks (@kevonstage). In it, he laments about his upcoming busy weekend, saying the tiredness that was to come would be so great that he was experiencing a “pre-tired” tiredness...
Screen Time to Green Time during the Holidays
Our mental health has never been about just us. Nature has always been a part of our well-being, and connecting with the great outdoors is paramount to our overall wellness. With the rise of technology (and especially these little supercomputers stowed away in our...
What is Practical Mindfulness?
“Self-care.” “Wellness.” “Mindfulness.” All of these ideas and concepts, though probably all good-intentioned, can become muddled and get confusing quickly. At Simply Psych, we believe in practical mindfulness because it cuts through the platitudes and nice words, and...
Mindful Media: Holidays Edition
Mindful Media is all about reintegrating mental health into our modern lifestyle, and we’ve got some tips to help you discover how to do just that during the holiday season. Social media is synonymous with overreaching advertising. From a business perspective, it’s an...
Holiday “Trickle Down” Stress for the Family
The Reagan-era notion of supply-side economic policies hypothesized that lowering the tax burdens on the upper end of the economic spectrum would allow for that money to “trickle down” into the rest of the economy, boosting income and opportunity for all. Basically,...
The Cycle of Anxiety in Families
Family dynamics are complicated. No matter if you’re close enough with your family to see them all daily, dread seeing them during the holidays, or somewhere in between… everybody's got feelings about their family. The emotional roller coaster really gets going as we...
Handling “Too Convenient”
Handling "too convenient" encompasses the whole spectrum of quality, quantity, and cost. Maybe things shouldn't be quick and easy every time. A patient had a helluva time coming off their nicotine vape pen. Firstly, nicotine is not only super addictive, but putting it...