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Navigating the Holiday Blues: A Guide to Dealing with Depression

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The holiday season is often portrayed as a time of joy, celebration, and togetherness. However, for many individuals, it can be a challenging time, marked by feelings of loneliness, sadness, and heightened stress. Dealing with depression during the holidays requires a unique approach that acknowledges the complexities of this season. Here are some strategies to help you navigate through this difficult time: Acknowledge Your Feelings It's essential to recognize and accept your emotions. If you're feeling down, don't suppress or dismiss those feelings. Allow yourself to experience and express your emotions without judgment. The holiday season can bring up a range of emotions, and it's okay to feel the way you do. Set Realistic Expectations The pressure to create picture-perfect holiday moments can be overwhelming. Instead of succumbing to unrealistic expectations, set achievable goals for yourself. Whether it's scaling back on decorations or simplifying your holiday p

Healing from forgotten trauma

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  Trauma has the power to shape our lives in profound ways, often leaving indelible marks on our mental, emotional, and even physical well-being. While some traumatic experiences are vividly etched into our memories, others may remain buried deep within our subconscious. This phenomenon is known as complex trauma and it poses unique challenges for individuals seeking to heal. Understanding Complex Trauma: Complex trauma refers to a type of prolonged and repetitive traumatic experience that occurs typically during childhood. Unlike a single traumatic event, such as a car accident or natural disaster, complex trauma involves ongoing abuse, neglect, or other adverse experiences that often occur within the family or caregiving system. The Impact of Unconscious Memories: One of the distinctive characteristics of complex trauma is that the traumatic memories may be inaccessible or fragmented, existing outside of conscious awareness. Unconscious memories can exert a profound influence on an
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 2022 - A Year of Thankfulness We want to thank all of our clients who trusted us with their care and well-being in 2022. It is an honor to be a part of your journey and walk alongside you as you discover your voice, your strength, and yourself.  

Daily Affirmations

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                Daily affirmations are simple, positive statements that empower and uplift the person speaking them. It is very easy to practice positive affirmations; just pick a phrase, say it, and repeat it 3 to 5 times a day. Affirmations help reprogram our minds away from negative, self-statements and unhelpful thoughts.  Creating an Affirmation Jar is a simple, fun way to bring daily affirmations into your life and home. Write out positive phrases, mantras, compliments, self-love, and kindness statements on slips of paper and put them in a jar. Place the jar by the door you use most. When you leave the house, take a slip of paper from the jar and use that as your affirmation for the day.

Are the holidays overwhelming you? Guided meditation can help.

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  Meditation is an enjoyable, inspiring way to achieve inner peace and has been part of the human culture for centuries. Guided meditation uses the power of visualization to effect positive, personal changes and reach a state of inner peace - and is the easiest way to meditate. In guided meditation, another person’s voice shapes the meditative experience and helps us to remain focused during the experience. Guided meditation sessions don’t have a set time associated with them. They can be short or long and can be practiced wherever you find yourself. Meditation sessions can help with stress, depression, self-esteem, relaxation, memory, patience, insomnia, and healing. So if the stress of the holidays is taking a toll on you, start your day a bit earlier with a guided meditation topic to help you take on the challenges of the day. (If you are new to meditation and need a bit of help starting on a meditative path, check out recordings found on apps, podcasts, online videos, CDs, and DVDs

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday everyone.

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Celebrate Trans Awareness Week: November 13-19, 2021

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  Our agency is a proud ally of the transgender community - but our nation has a long way to go in understanding and accepting this beautiful community. So far, 2021 marks the deadliest year on record for our transgender friends and family members. Trans Awareness Week sees organizations and allies bring visibility and support to transgender people and an awareness of issues the community faces. Even though we celebrate transgendered people this week, they need for all of us to be allies every day of the year. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLADD) offers these tips for allies of Transgender People: You can’t tell if someone is transgender just by looking.
Don’t make assumptions about a transgender person’s sexual orientation. If you don’t know what pronouns to use, listen first. Don’t ask a transgender person what their ‘real name’ is. Understand the difference between ‘coming out’ as lesbian, gay, or bisexual and ‘coming out’ as transgender. Be careful about confiden