How Often You Need to See Your Therapist
How often do you need to go to therapy? Like everything in the realm of the mental health ecosystem, nuance is the norm and context is everything. There is no single right answer. But we’ll break it down with you. 🙂 In 2020, just over 20% of Americans over the age of...
Addiction and Therapy
The terms “substance use” and “substance treatment” fall within the mental health ecosystem. We often treat them as separate entities (partly because of how we pay for things in our screwed up health system), but there's a lot of overlap. One of the hiccups is that...
Good Stress: The Currency of Autonomy and Purpose
Imagine this: playing video games all day, no demands on time, no requests for chores, no expectations. Sounds like living the life, right?! Nope. It’s bad y’all. Without some structure to provide boundaries and give a sense of meaning, the depth and quality of life...
Bet on Yourself: How to Start Therapy
If you’ve ever wondered how to start therapy, then you’re in the right place! There are so many facets that are barriers to care, but we won’t get into all of those because everybody’s context is different. Instead, we have one tip that will help you no matter what...
Mindful Media: Back-to-School Edition
Social media is now synonymous with overreaching advertising. From a business perspective, it’s an extremely efficient marketing tool. But from the mental health standpoint, social media has morphed into a behemoth of toxic addiction that causes depression and...
Workforce Shortage Solution: MHint
Mental health is health. The last few years navigating and surviving a pandemic has reminded the world that our health must be prioritized. However, shortages in the workforce are causing waves of concern and alarm at the state of healthcare in the United States. ...
Replace Social Media with Mindful Media
Social media is now synonymous with overreaching advertising. From a business perspective, it’s an extremely efficient marketing tool. But from the mental health standpoint, social media has morphed into a behemoth of toxic addiction that causes depression and...
Effort, not Force
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle once gifted us with this empowering nugget of wisdom, and it rings truer than ever. In today’s world of burnout infused burnout topped with a glaze of burnout, we must learn...
Is Nature-Deficit Disorder a Thing?
With the swift rise of a digital world reducing the need to leave the comfort and luxuries of one’s own home, humans are more out of touch with the great outdoors than ever. Considering live streaming, grocery delivery, Amazon 2-day shipping, FaceTime/Zoom, work from...
Adult Summer Camps? YES!
Summer is upon us! For kids, that generally means a break from school, more time to go to the pool, a chance to hang out with friends, and even go on vacations or summer camps to have blissful fun and make lasting memories. But as a whole grown-up with a job and...