By Jennifer Rego, MSW, LICSW In previous articles we discussed personal growth and challenges during the pandemic. But, it’s also important to look at how this time has impacted our most intimate relationships. If you are coupled or otherwise partnered, it is important to reflect on your relationship – especially in times of significant change…. CONTINUE
Stop Surviving and Start Living: Three Tenets to Self-Care That Will Keep You Fresh
By Charles Jarvis, LMHC As the years go on, we all find ourselves busier and busier. Between living through the pandemic, trying to teach kids with remote learning techniques, and meeting the pressures of a capitalist society–we all lose sight of ourselves a little. Anxiety has been increasing, stress-management techniques less employed, and this aspect… CONTINUE
A Shock to the System: Navigating A Post Lockdown World
As restrictions and guidelines lift around the US, we are being called back into life and are now allowed to do many more things that we haven’t been able to enjoy for quite some time. After a year of being under severe restrictions we have to figure out how to interact with others again in… CONTINUE
Signs the Pandemic Is Affecting Your Mental Health
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so now feels like a great time to revisit a topic that has affected the nation’s collective mental well-being for over a year now: the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a 2020 CDC study on mental health, substance abuse, and suicidal thoughts during the pandemic, at least 40 percent of… CONTINUE
Grief: How to Cope and Make Meaning After a Year in Lockdown
We all seek meaning in life, more now than ever. A significant year marker has just passed with the pandemic and an anniversary we didn’t anticipate is now here. This anniversary is a reminder to all of us that we were, a year ago, forced into a lockdown that caused our lives to come to… CONTINUE
Using Your Senses to Increase Wellbeing
This year we are adjusting to an ever-changing landscape which bring uncertainty to our life. However, we can focus on what we can control to find a sense of security and meet our needs to feel content. Sometimes it is easy to overlook simple ways we can meet these needs. Our senses – sight, sound,… CONTINUE
Finding a New Routine
The reality of a living through a pandemic is that our daily routines have changed dramatically. We are now faced with different ways of functioning. With that dramatic shift comes a need for a readjustment out of necessity. What use to make us feel secure has changed and so we are forced to change with… CONTINUE
Staying Connected in Uncertain Times
As a result of this crisis and pandemic, we have been collectively impacted by this world we live in. There are many tragedies that have come with this, but as a positive outcome we have grown closer. We are sending and receiving messages of healing, sharing stories of hurt, acknowledging that each other is the… CONTINUE