by The Guidance Center | May 13, 2022 | Anxiety, Community, Hope, Mental Wellness
Mental Health Awareness Month- Why Mental Health Matters May is Mental Health Awareness Month. As we all continue to process and heal from the collective trauma from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more important now than ever to speak out about mental health. A recent...
by The Guidance Center | Feb 17, 2022 | Anxiety, Community, Hope, Mental Wellness
A global pandemic, grief and loss, a divided nation, and ongoing racial injustices have been major contributors to a nationwide mental health crises in the last couple of years. Many of us had to work remotely, and as a consequence we were given the gift of time and...
by Doris Pakozdi, LMFT | Feb 9, 2022 | Anxiety, Community, Hope, Mental Wellness
Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month and as we embark on another year of the pandemic it may be another trying time for teens as they seek new relationships and maintain old ones. Since the pandemic began in early 2020,...
by Jessica Achugbue, AMFT | Jan 21, 2022 | Anxiety, Community, Hope, Mental Wellness
As we grapple with a surge of COVID-19 cases in our third calendar year enveloped in the pandemic, you may find yourself feeling especially uneasy, drained, unmotivated, tense, exhausted, sad, or a host of other difficult emotional experiences right now. As the saying...
by Nathan Swaringen, LCSW | Dec 17, 2021 | Anxiety, Community, Hope, Mental Wellness, Parenting Tips
It’s hard to believe that we are approaching the two-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with it, a very different way of living and functioning. The pandemic hit right after the 2019 holiday season, so it wasn’t until 2020 that we got to experience just how...
by Jacqueline Gallegos, AMFT | Sep 24, 2021 | Anxiety, Community, Ending Stigma, How to, Mental Health Awareness Month, Mental Wellness, Parenting Tips, Prevention & Early Intervention
“I looked up at the trees and asked for their wisdom. I observed their willowing branches and crisp brown leaves, dead with only a shimmer of light running through their veins. Its branches holding on to life with the few lively leaves it managed to hold on to....