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Walking for Mental Health

May 07, 2022

Anxiety, Depression, flourish mental health, houston, houston texas, mental health, texas

By Nazia Islam, LPC-S, RPTIt is well known that movement and exercise have been proven to help with elevating mood and improving symptoms of depression and anxiety. Wherever you are on the spectrum from a little down to clinically depressed, it can be difficult to get motivated with an exercise regimen. The thought process usually goes “I know I will feel better if I exercise, but I don’t

Radical Acceptance and You

March 29, 2018

Anxiety, Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression, Self Esteem, Self Help

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, our minds weigh us down with worries about how we’ll handle an

Reasons Not to Change

February 23, 2018

Anxiety, Career, Depression, Mindfulness, Relationships, Self Help, Stress

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 if you didn’t go to work? Can you afford that? Or, do you

Caught in a Thought Storm

January 26, 2018

ADHD, Anxiety, Bipolar, Borderline Personality Disorder, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Depression, Dissociative Disorder, Impulse Control, Mindfulness, OCD, Personality Disorder, PTSD, Self Help, Stress, Thinking Disorders

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 events and your body is on autopilot, perhaps staying still or