What’s one simple trick to increase the odds that your therapist is able to meet your therapeutic needs? Ask for what you need! Ok, this might not be a real hack, and the title of this post is just a bad spin on “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, a book I haven’t […]
10 Things Your Therapist Hopes You Learned During a COVID Centered Year (Part 2)
This month marks the one year anniversary of “let’s all stay home for two weeks help to flatten curve.” I certainly don’t say that to minimize the importance of doing so but I doubt many people predicted the 12 months that followed. It’s been an interesting ride (similar to being stuck on a malfunctioning roller […]
10 Things Your Therapist Hopes You Learned During a COVID Centered Year (Part 1)
The past year has been filled with lots of ups and downs and certainly quite a few twists and turns. Most people can reflect back to more than one conversation about how we would be transitioning to a virtual work environment “for just a couple of weeks, to help flatten the curve.” Well, here we […]
SAD in 2020: Navigating Seasonal Affective Disorder During a Worldwide Pandemic
Many people annually brace themselves for the return of colder temperatures, less sunlight and the possibility of seasonal depression, officially termed Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). This type of depression typically impacts roughly 5 percent of people living in the United States but one must wonder how living during a pandemic will impact that number. The […]