For the past couple of years, I’ve had several clients present with a common cause of anxiety: the news. It’s not surprising that, given our polarized political climate, when we open the News app on our phones, we see conflict and bickering among those in power. It’s also not surprising that, given the trend of …
January 2019
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Chances are you’ve heard about Seasonal Affective Disorder (or SAD) – the period of depression that some people tend to experience just after Christmas and that seems to linger until spring. Maybe you’ve even diagnosed yourself with it or attributed someone’s bad mood to it! But what is it exactly? And have we been using …
Out-of-the-Box Ideas for Self-Care
Self-care…we’ve heard of it, we know we should do it, but sometimes it can be so dang hard to implement! Why is that? If you’re anything like me, then you tend to practice self-care at one of two times: 1) on that extremely random and rare day when you have nothing else going on (like, …
Vitality
Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and that you are encouraged about the year ahead! I know that I am! Exciting things are happening at Abundant Life Counseling St. Louis! Our first PICK group is launching this month, and I’m so excited about the folks who are joining us! I’m …
Setting Intentions for the New Year
I gave up setting New Year’s resolutions a long time ago.They were never really that great (mostly about changing some aspect of my body rather than self-acceptance and appreciating the healthy body I’ve already got), I never really stuck to them (I’m not sure any diet I ever tried made it past January), and I …