Dealing with Stress and Anxiety During a Pandemic
In a world of six foot bubbles, face coverings, and inescapable amounts of screen time, our mental and emotional health is at risk now more than ever. Feelings such as fear, stress, and anxiety can be intense, and working from home is isolating- especially since the things that once kept … Read More
Self Care in a Crazy Time
Life is busy, stressful and sometimes exhausting. It can feel like each day we are checking off “to-do’s” and not actually living. How do we reset our minds to take time each day for ourselves? What activities can we fit in our days that don’t feel like a task? Here … Read More
AHHHHH! Stress!
Parents, family, relationships, athletics, performances, speeches, exams, world/local news, politics, graduation, college, this weekend, appearances, hair, likes/follows on social media, and other such things consume the mind which, in turn, applies pressure to our thoughts and emotions. This pressure can also be known as stress. Due to the fact … Read More
My Brother has Autism
Throughout all of my life, I have witnessed my older brother reach milestones that I would have never thought he could reach. When we were children, whenever he spoke he could never use his own words to describe how he felt. He could “script”, mimic scenes verbatim from movies, television … Read More