Spring has sprung upon us. During this time of the year, many people are feeling in the mood to do some cleaning around their houses. Sometimes, we all need to…
Category: Family
Information on mental health for families.
A Lovingkindness Meditation: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Step Up For Mental Health · A Lovingkindness Meditation Where Is the Unconditional Love? Between waiting for a house project to finish and not being able to be there for…
Pandemic Mental Health Trends in Children and Teenagers
CDC Findings on ER Visits At the end of 2020, the CDC shared findings on emergency room visits for children 18 years old and younger. It was the mental health…
Be Their Safety: Help Heal the Motherless
I Long for Safety Safety is what I long for. The Little Girl Imagine this. A little girl who is seven years old craves a mother's love more than anything,…
How Parents Can Cope When Their Child Has Anger Management Issues
Parents today have a lot of things to cope with when it comes to their children. They have to deal with their growing pains and changing emotional issues and it…
How I Reclaim Power From Mental Abuse: A Letter to a Teenager
For the Teenager Hindsight as an adult offers answers to questions that I didn’t know as a teenager. As a teen, I didn’t know there were different types of mental…
A Set of Grief Exercises for Continuous Healing
Step Up For Mental Health · A Set of Grief Exercises for Continuous Healing Does Grief Expire? It’s been nearly three years since losing my father, and sometimes it takes…
Use Your Past To Change The Future
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash The Family Secret For the longest time, I have been afraid to share my story. It has always been this big secret that no…
Undo the Taboo: Erase ‘Proper’ Grief
Step Up For Mental Health · Blog: Undo the Taboo: Erase ‘Proper’ Grief Proper Etiquette of Grief I sat at my mother's dining room table less than a week after…
A Routine to Help You Rise Through Grief
Caging the Open Heart Our hearts are caged in bones. When we are sad, the concave shape that our shoulders and chest create forms a heavy layer that hinders our…