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New Year’s Resolutions and Mental Health

by Eli Walker | Dec 18, 2023

Everybody loves New Year’s; it’s a time to reflect on how far we’ve come, while looking to the future with a clean slate to make the most of the upcoming year. About a quarter of Americans are still interested in setting New Year’s resolutions according to various...

Why Milestones are Significant in Improving Mental Health

by Eli Walker | Dec 11, 2023

As the year wraps up, it is important to remember to reflect on the past twelve months with a lens of gratitude and celebration. Whether it was a difficult year of trials, an emotional year of highs and lows, or the best year of your life so far, contemplating on your...

Pre-Holiday Anxiety and You: Finances

by Shayna Vance | Dec 8, 2023

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,...

Season of Gratitude

by Eli Walker | Dec 5, 2023

As the year comes to a close in the midst of the busy holiday season, it is often difficult to make space and time to reflect on the previous 12 months and all that you’ve done, seen, grown into, and accomplished. Change is constant. Even if you don’t feel like you’ve...

Pre-Holiday Anxiety and You: Food + Alcohol

by Shayna Vance | Nov 27, 2023

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

by Shayna Vance | Nov 22, 2023

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

by Shayna Vance | Nov 20, 2023

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

by Eli Walker | Nov 15, 2023

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?

by Eli Walker | Nov 8, 2023

“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

by Eli Walker | Nov 1, 2023

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...

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