A Coronavirus Mental Health Toolkit

Physically distancing (my preferred term for social distancing since it is by far more accurate regarding what we are tasked with doing) is difficult.  I don’t care how introverted or extroverted you think you are, humans are social creatures at the end of the day. ...

Fighting The Post-Holiday Blues

My mother, intrigued, informed me the other day that Martin Luther King weekend marks what many psychologists call the beginning of the holiday blues. Essentially, this is because all of the joyful winter holidays and festivities have come to a close until around...

Dreading the Holidays: Differing Values

As we continue our Dreading the Holidays series, today we will be looking at how having differing values from our family members can cause extra holiday stress. This one is difficult because as young children, we tend to adopt our parents values with black and white...

Dreading the Holidays: Unhealthy Communication

Our next topic in our dreading the holidays series is unhealthy family communication. Holidays with the family can be difficult because there may be poor communication patterns between any variety of family members.  I see this a lot with family members that want...