Counseling For Children
By Nazia Islam, LPC-S, RPT Just like adults children can experience stress. Stressors for children can include the death of a pet, the birth of a sibling, divorce, neglect, abandonment, moving, domestic violence, bullying at school, natural disasters, war, violence, and political climate. Your child will not come to you stating “Mother, I feel quite […]
The Good and The Fad: Achieving A Healthy Diet
by Muhibbah Khan I was scrolling through Instagram the other day and passed by an advertisement on how to lose weight fast. I thought nothing of it and kept scrolling, but only a few minutes passed, and there it was again… and again… and again. I think within an hour I saw about 20 advertisements […]
Are You What You Eat?
By Nazia Islam, LPC-S, RPT The euphemism “You are what you eat” was coined in 1826 by famous French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillant Savarin. He wrote “‘Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es’’, which translates to ‘Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are ‘” […]
Do You Need More Sleep?
Do You Need More Sleep? by Muhibbah Khan If you’re a fellow student like me, I’m sure you know the feeling of pulling multiple all-nighters and having to down cups of coffee to keep yourself functioning so you can complete your assignments, all while balancing multiple jobs, familial responsibilities, and maintaining a social life. The […]
Pandemic and Sleep
Are you experiencing Coronasomnia? By Nazia Islam The COVID19 pandemic is a prolonged stressor that has made unprecedented changes worldwide. Among the many changes that came with the global pandemic are people’s sleep patterns. Some experts have termed this phenomenon as Coronasomnia. Coronasomnia is categorized as separate from insomnia because Coronasomnia is the loss of […]
Radical Acceptance and You
Our minds can be a personal prison sometimes, locking us in and berating us for everything we “should” or “could” have done differently but didn’t. And sometimes it locks us in and plays looping video of events we might not have had control over, but that we can’t help but be stuck on. Other times, […]
Real Mindfulness Is Active
“Mindfulness” is one of the latest mental health terms that has been co-opted and misappropriated by our society of trends. Mindfulness allegedly now has something to do with coloring books and a mythical state of letting everything go and being really super calm all the time. While attempting to guide clients into calming breathing exercises, […]
Reasons Not to Change
You wake up in the morning with an overwhelming sense of dread. You weigh how long you can put off the day’s activities. You begin to bargain with what you can avoid and what you cannot. You start to do the math: how much do you make an hour? How much money would you lose […]
Caught in a Thought Storm
Our thoughts and emotions can take control of our daily experience and make it difficult for us to get things done. Maybe your every day is “like living in a soft rain of post-it notes.” Maybe you’re losing time as your mind drifts into a thorough over-analysis of events past and future. You’re stuck reliving feelings and […]