Keepin’ it Real -
notes from a therapist
How to Overcome Work Anxiety
Anxiety can push you to perform but when it becomes excessive, it can drain you and impact your well-being and potentially creep into your personal life.
How to Tell the Difference Between Anxiety and Panic Attacks
Being able to tell the difference between a panic attack and anxiety attack can be tricky but it's important in knowing the best support for you.
How Anxiety is Effecting your Relationships
Anxiety can be hard and exhausting enough trying to manage it on your own. The last thing you want to worry about is how your anxiety is effecting your relationships with those around you.
What is High Functioning Anxiety and What it looks like in Your Daily Life
Anxiety just like with all other mental health struggles aren't always what they seem or what you think they "should" look like and high functioning anxiety in particular can get overlooked.
What is Existential Therapy and How it Works to Reduce your Anxiety
Do you ever find yourself wondering why you even exist? What is the purpose of it all? Does it then lead to overwhelming worry or anxiety? Existential therapy might be the one answer for these big questions.
7 Ways to Embrace and Accept New Beginnings as an Anxious Person in the New Year
Everyone experiences change in their lives and with it overwhelm and anxiety around the unknowns. By incorporating practical mindshifts and tools, you can embrace change with clarity and peace.
How to Cope with Challenging Family Relationships During the Holidays
This time of year means more time spent with family members you haven’t seen in a while. It's important to approach these moments with increased patience and compassion.
8 Ways To Navigate Holiday Grief
If you’ve experienced a loss of any kind, I’m sure you’ve noticed it can be a complex time of year. Holidays can magnify grief emotions but can learn how to carry it in a way that makes it more manageable for you.
Self-compassion and Body Image During the Holidays
The holidays can challenge our body image for MANY reasons. Our coping mechanisms are strained from stressors and we are inundated with reminders about our body (and people’s opinions).
How to Stop Masking Your Emotions
We often wear a mask to conceal our true feelings. While masking emotions can be a helpful coping mechanism, if left on for too long it can be detrimental to your mental and emotional well-being.
What Overstimulation Feels Like as a Highly Sensitive Person and How You Can Do Manage It
Do you often find yourself experiencing intense emotional reactions, feeling quickly exhausted by external stimuli? You may be struggling with overstimulation, a common occurrence for HSPs.
How to Ditch Perfectionism
It's okay to strive for excellence, but not at the expense of your well-being. You deserve to live a life free from the burden of perfectionism and anxiety.
5 Signs You’re a People Pleaser and How it’s Impacting Your Life
Being helpful to others is a wonderful trait, but there’s a difference between compassion and people pleasing. It’s helpful to understand what people pleasing really means and how it shows up in your life.
Why Perfectionism is Giving you Anxiety
Perfectionism is a trait that affects many people and can be a demanding sonofabitch. You might think it is helpful but is usually it brings along overwhelming anxiety and stress.
What Your Teen Wants to Know About Therapy
Therapy is feeling less like a mystery these days with access to therapists on social media, but it is still super common for teens to have questions and uncertainties.
5 Simple Steps for Setting Boundaries
Setting boundaries is a healthy way to take care of yourself, help you feel in control of your life, and help you build better relationships with the people around you.
6 Ways to Help you Cope with Dating Anxiety
There are a lot of ways that dating anxiety can creep up on us and make things difficult when we're trying to get out there and meet new people. You don’t have to suffer through it alone!
Navigating Climate Anxiety to Instill Hope
Climate anxiety is real ya'll and I know I've been feeling it. Acknowledging its validity and finding practical ways to cope with it can help instill hope and change.
How to Heal Through a Break-up
Relationship transitions can be some of the most challenging experiences you encounter in life, but they can also be an opportunity for growth and healing.
6 Ways to Cure the Summertime Blues
If you're noticing things like restlessness, agitation, having low energy, feeling anxious or depressed, you might be experiencing the summertime blues.