The Mental Health Blog
How Do I Ease My Child’s Fears During COVID? – Greenway Therapy
3- Limit exposure to the news, commercials and radio. This goes for you too. Your family needs some normalcy. Keep it to Netflix and CD’s for a while to get a break from the doom and gloom. Play bord games and limit their time on the internet. The more your child is connected to normalcy and positive messages, the more at ease they will feel.
4- Keep adult conversations away from tiny ears. Sometimes you just need to let all your fears out, and that is okay. The issue with kids is that they believe every word you say and take it seriously. Freak out with friends and family away from the kids or after bedtime!
Grief and Loss – COVID-19 – St Louis GreenwayTherapist
Start by finding a little piece of meaning in each day. Meditate to clear your mind. Rewrite your routines.
Know that moving towards something positive will require you to work through the resistance that has been playing in the background. You are face to face with it now. Now is a time of adjustment and acceptance. If you are lucky, life will go back to normal in a few months, maybe if you are even more lucky, life will settle on an even better, new normal. You must be open to it.
How to Overcome Your Post COVID-19 Trauma- From A Therapist and Human Like You
…A common thread I’m seeing in session the past two weeks is COVID-19, social distancing and isolation is bringing Americans face to face with problems the so effectively avoided for years, sometimes a lifetime…
What is Trauma? -A Therapist Near You
Trauma can be defined as “Big T” trauma and “little t” trauma.
Big T trauma examples:
Car accident
Rape
Miscarriage
Fire-house burns down
Home invasion
Little t trauma examples:
Dynamics in a toxic relationship
Neglect over time
Bullying
Non-life threatening injury
Surgeries
What IS Empathy? -A Therapist in St Louis, MO
What is Empathy
Empathy and sympathy are often mistaken for each other. Let’s compare the two…
Therapist in St. Louis Reveals 5 Things People Get Wrong about Depression
Movies and media often display depression as something that is easy to spot or manage. Media does not give you the full picture of what it is like or what to expect. If you have not had any personal experience with depression how would you know anything about it...
How an Integrative Approach Helps St. Louis Therapists Treat Depression
An integrative approach to therapy means the therapist sees the person in their entirety; the body, mind, spirit, environment, past and present. An integrative approach considers all variables in order to reach a clients unique goals in therapy. When clients seek...
6 Things St. Louis Therapists Want People with Anxiety to Know
If you are a person with anxiety you know what it feels like but you may not know why you have it. I find most people coming into counseling to work through anxiety do not know exactly what they will be working through, all they know is that they want to feel better...
St. Louis Therapists-Approved Natural Remedies to Stave Off Depression
When I think of natural remedies my mind tends to go to things like plants or essential oils. Something that can basically be put in the body, like a medicine but only natural. Yes, natural remedies can be of the oil or plant variety but the thing to remember is that...
Distraction and Anxiety During COVID-19 Quarantine-St Louis Therapist
Squirrel!!!!!!! Are you a person that is distracted among a sea of structure during a normal day? Do you fight to stay on task to keep focus? COVID-19 has created an opportunity for all of us to take a break from the rat race, focus on our families and most of all,...