As we enter a season typically all about connection, celebration, and reflecting on our path forward, as a nation we are questioning our basic safety and wondering if this is where we belong. In a recent nationwide Harris Poll for the American Psychological...
“Red and yellow kill a fellow” is a common warning to help identify the coral snake which is poisonous to us. However, this phrase may also apply to your health. Red and yellow on the traffic light tool are states of survival. There’s nothing wrong...
Coping with the stress of a new baby Have you noticed the kind of pressure new parents face these days? Magazines, advertising, blogs and even friends’ social media pages abound with images of blissful couples and their infants in picture-perfect nurseries. Both...
Why you are flipping your lid? Do you remember the last time you “flipped your lid”? Or experienced it when someone around you did? “Flipping your lid” is psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Siegel’s term for what happens when stress shuts down part of your brain. Marital...
Do you have a runaway brain? Are you a chronic worrier? Do you obsess about things? Or, does your mind seem to always be stuck in the past? When any of us experiences high stress (eg., an illness, a death, intense work pressure), our sense of well being is often...
