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🍂 Fall Anxiety: How Seasonal Changes Affect Mental Health (and What Helps)
One week you’re soaking up late-summer sunshine, and the next you’re reaching for sweaters, noticing earlier sunsets, and maybe feeling a little unsettled. The transition from summer to fall isn’t just about changing leaves – it can also bring shifts in mood, energy, and anxiety. Understanding how seasonal changes impact your mental health can make… Read More
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Social Anxiety in Kids: Parent Tips for Back-to-School
Back-to-school season can be stressful for many kids and teens – but especially difficult for those struggling with social anxiety. For these kids, the challenges go beyond homework and new teachers. Maybe your child dreads the cafeteria, avoids speaking up in class, or worries constantly about what other kids think. Many parents wonder how to… Read More
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Back-to-School Anxiety for Parents: CBT Tools to Manage Stress
Let’s be honest: the start of the school year can feel a lot less like a fresh start and a lot more like an emotional tornado wrapped in a to-do list. If your thoughts are racing, your stomach is in knots, or you’re lying awake wondering how you’re going to manage it all, you’re not… Read More
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Not Feeling Chill? How to Handle Summer Anxiety
Feeling more anxious than usual lately? You’re definitely not alone. Everyone seems to be out here trying to live their best “carefree summer life,” but your heart is racing, your sleep is a mess and the heat makes you feel like you’re walking around in a pressure cooker! Sound familiar? Take a deep breath. Summer… Read More
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Not Feeling “Hot Girl Summer?” 5 Tips to Take Summer Back from Your Negative Body Image
Dreading summer already and it just started? Thoughts of your giant arms, cellulite-filled legs, and extra belly fat flying through your head like a whirlwind? You’re looking at the cute bathing suits, tank tops, crop tops and shorts and wishing you had the right body to wear them. If so, you’re not alone. Unfortunately, body… Read More
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6 Ways to Tackle BFRBs Outside Your Home
Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) can often make us feel like we have no control over our behaviors and that we’re at the mercy of an endless cycle. We pick at our skin, pull out our hair, pick our nails, etc. We tell ourselves we won’t pick or pull again and then end up falling… Read More