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Survival and Connection Tips for Stressed Parents and Kids

by Hannah Ngaihte, MFT Trainee   Pandemic Roller Coaster As Covid cases decrease, vaccinations increase, and businesses “go back to normal”, we might expect our stress levels to decrease, our peace to increase, and our lives to regain normalcy.  However, with massive uncertainty and numerous decisions still to make for our families, this is not the likely reality for most of us just yet. This past year has been like riding a roller coaster, blindfolded.  We’ve passed several unexpected drops and managed to survive, yet we have no idea whether to brace ourselves for...

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Why Mental Health Matters

 by Emmanuel Akih, MFT Trainee Physical and Emotional Functioning As a nation, and as individuals, we often pay more attention to our physical health than that of our mental health. Let's consider, for example, a woman who discovers that her neck pain is preventing her from turning her head from side-to-side. Immediately, the woman checks in with her primary healthcare physician, and may be referred to an orthopedic doctor or a chiropractor for further examination and care. This woman makes sure that she gets a cure for her neck pain because she...

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Beauty and Belonging

by Emily Phifer, M.S. MFT [perfectpullquote align="full" bordertop="false" cite="" link="" color="" class="" size=""] "Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other...

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It’s Been a Year

By Emily Phifer, M.S. MFT   Remembering One Year It’s been a year. Both literally, and figuratively. From March 12, 2020 to March 12, 2021, the landscape of our lives changed drastically throughout what has, at times, felt much like a storyline taken from a Sci- Fi novel, and then some. In some ways, it seems somehow impossible that a whole year has passed since our lives were turned upside down with the start of the Coronavirus pandemic in the United States. And, in other ways, the past year has seemed much, much...

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Grieving the Pandemic; Continuing On

by Emily Phifer, M.S. MFT Grief is Universal Grief is a universal human experience, yet each person’s subjective experience of grief during a lifetime can vary so widely. [perfectpullquote align="full" bordertop="false" cite="" link="" color="" class="" size=""]No two people have the very same response to grief. However, there are general understandings and guidelines that can help us to navigate through the murky waters of loss.[/perfectpullquote]  Many of us are grieving our global experience of the pandemic over the past year, with many varying ways that we have been individually impacted. Our experiences may vary,...

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