Category: wellness

PTSD Awareness Month Part One: How PTSD Affects Your Health

While most everyone will experience trauma at some point in their lives, not everyone who experiences trauma will experience PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) symptoms. Complex PTSD (CPTSD) is caused by ongoing trauma that lasts for months or years, whereas PTSD is caused by a single traumatic event. However, both create symptoms that negatively impact the … Continue reading PTSD Awareness Month Part One: How PTSD Affects Your Health →

Mental Health Awareness Month – What I Learned About My Mental Health This Year

Breaking news for myself: I don't need to pathologize my feelings. I can experience Big Feelings without having a mental health crisis. Experiencing feelings does not make me mentally unstable. For so long, my feelings were scary. It wasn't safe to feel them. While I have always enjoyed experiencing a wide range of emotions, from … Continue reading Mental Health Awareness Month – What I Learned About My Mental Health This Year →

Five Things You Should Always Consume for Your Mental Health

It’s Mental Health Awareness Month, and I’m kicking things off with five of my favorite things we should all be consuming for better mental health. A few months ago, I shared five health imposters that harm our health, and I decided to expand on that list with the five things we need in this latest … Continue reading Five Things You Should Always Consume for Your Mental Health →

Root Causes of Adolescent Depression

A recent report from the CDC showed that three out of five teen girls shared they experienced persistent feelings of hopelessness in 2021. While this statistic is staggering, I listen without batting an eye. Why? I was one of the three. I believe there are many things contributing to adolescent hopelessness, and while there are … Continue reading Root Causes of Adolescent Depression →

Five Things I’m Doing for My Health This Year

Happy New Year! It's the time of year when people are setting goals, creating self-improvement plans, and looking forward to change that sticks. As a health coach, I know that creating changes that stick have to do with small, sustainable habits. I like to practice what I preach, so I created some small steps that … Continue reading Five Things I’m Doing for My Health This Year →

When the Christmas Season Doesn’t Go as Expected

Do you ever have the feeling you just don’t do holidays as well as other people? Or maybe the holiday season hasn’t gone as you wanted it to?  We’ve had a difficult fall, as I’ve been dealing with some heavy past trauma I didn’t know I had. My Christmas spirit has been minimal. I don’t … Continue reading When the Christmas Season Doesn’t Go as Expected →

Putting My Mental Illness into Remission

I was medicated for bipolar disorder for 18 years. Ten years ago, I went off anti-psychotic medication. Eight years ago, I weaned off my remaining medication, an SSRI antidepressant. Today, I am mentally healthier than I've ever been, particularly in the last five years, since I have been (mostly) gluten free and eat a lower … Continue reading Putting My Mental Illness into Remission →

Getting Relief from Seasonal Allergies

The design of the human body is amazing, and the immune system never ceases to blow me away. Its primary job is to scan the environment and tolerate. It is constantly scanning, for our protection. It then decides what it wants to tolerate, and what necessitates an attack back. It's a beautifully protective design. Mold, … Continue reading Getting Relief from Seasonal Allergies →