By Charles Jarvis, LMHC These past two years have been hard for all of us, especially those in healthcare. The patients I see are still in need of help – identifying financial resources, marital discord, or commonly heightened adverse coping as a catalyst for their crisis. I find it difficult to deal with added frustration […]
Getting Ahead of Your Anxiety
By Charles Jarvis, LMHC As people, we measure success in productivity and the need to be in motion. Each day I hear people recite all the tasks they wish to accomplish during the day, and will commonly become overwhelmed by the ever growing list. We tend to plan constantly, which sometimes is great – however […]
Raising Respectable Children – Am I Parenting the Right Way?
by Charles Jarvis, LMHC Continually I find myself reflecting on this subject throughout my day – and with that comes a continual fear that I may be doing this whole parenting thing wrong. But here’s a secret, there are really no guidelines for this although there are special indications which professionals look for to gauge […]
Superheroes – Why Do We Love Them
by Charles Jarvis, LMHC I always loved the concept of superheroes; what they symbolize to us as people and what they mean to our culture. What values do we see in them that represent hope for us? In the past few days I have watched numerous superhero films, of good characters, antiheroes and supervillains. I […]
Combating Negativity to See the Big Picture
by Charles Jarvis, LMHC I recently got the chance to take a day and do something just for me. I spend a lot of time thinking about what I wanted to do, focusing on what could be restorative and healing for me. I was surprised to find this took a lot more thought than I […]