5 Simple Tips for Navigating the Holidays When You Have Depression

5 Simple Tips for Navigating the Holidays When You Have Depression

For people with depression, the holidays can be a particularly challenging time. Often, people with depression have a negative view of themselves and their lives. If their idealized beliefs about what the holidays should look like don’t match their perceived reality, it can be very difficult to manage. They may feel inadequate when perusing social media or receiving holiday cards, and seeing only happy news that people share. It perpetuates existing feelings that their lives don’t meet expectations and that others are doing much better.

When people are depressed they often withdraw and self-isolate and the emphasis on spending time with family and friends during the holiday season can be exhausting. There is more on their to-do lists, more gatherings, and more social interactions that can also be stressful.

If the holiday season is emotionally intense or chaotic for you, these tips may help:

5 Simple Tips for Maintaining Healthy Boundaries During the Holidays

5 Simple Tips for Maintaining Healthy Boundaries During the Holidays

This quick guide to healthy holiday boundaries can help you stay focused and true to yourself.

Healthy boundaries can be challenging to navigate, but setting and communicating them is important for your health and wellbeing. They create a clear framework that tells others how to treat you and sets mutually respectful expectations about how your relationship works.

9 Simple Tips for Managing Holiday Stress and Overwhelm

9 Simple Tips for Managing Holiday Stress and Overwhelm

For many people, the holiday season is a happy and joyous time spent celebrating with family and friends. But this time of year can also be very stressful. The holidays can be overwhelming, tiring, financially draining, and full of mixed emotions….So, if the sudden appearance of pumpkin spice, Christmas music, and a plethora of gift wrap evoke  feelings of anxiety, sadness, or panic, you are not alone! 

5 Ways Therapists Help Their Clients Overcome Stress

5 Ways Therapists Help Their Clients Overcome Stress

Stress is a normal part of everyday life but it can easily become overwhelming if we fail to address and manage it in a healthy way. Therapy can be a powerful investment since it not only alleviates your current stress, it leaves you much better equipped to manage future stress as well.

10 Ways To Practice Self-care (that won't cost a thing)!

10 Ways To Practice Self-care (that won't cost a thing)!

In this video you will learn what self-care really means, how to incorporate self-care into your daily life, and some new habits that may be beneficial for your self-care.

Ten Ways to Boost Your Body Image TODAY!

Ten Ways to Boost Your Body Image TODAY!

Negative body image does not develop overnight so it will not change overnight.  You are 100% capable of cultivating a healthy body image. It just takes practice and patience!

5 Signs You Need To Take A Mental Health Day

5 Signs You Need To Take A Mental Health Day

Anyone who has tried to “power through” an illness knows that doing so often worsens symptoms and delays progress, ultimately prolonging the illness. The quickest way to heal is to rest your body and take care of yourself.

Mental health days give us time away from work or school to practice the self-care we need to get back on track. It allows us to heal our minds and bodies.

More Than the Mirror Workshop Series Announcement

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