Dose of Wellness
Should We Avoid Emotions?
May is Mental Health Month. Did you know that one in five people will experience mental illness during their lifetime? Mental Illness and mental health look different for everyone. Achieving mental health is a process, as we are...
Let Your Belly Calm Your Mind
Take a deep breath. It calms the mind. —Regina Brett Parents, do your kids ever get frustrated when things aren’t going their way? My guess is yes! So often in the mental health profession we talked about how mindfulness practices can be...
Useful Apps
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life. — Bill Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft As most of us continue to stay at home, we are relying on technology more than ever to stay...
Keep Dreaming
Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. —George Herbert This is a crisis. This is a time that none of us planned...
Let’s Take a Tour
Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful. – Hazrat Inayat Khan Right now, most of us continue to stay at home. We do not know exactly when the stay-at-home order will be lifted and it will be safe to leave our homes during this...
Science of Well-being (And Happiness)
The happiest people don’t bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have. -Andrew Matthews For many people right now, this is a very unsettling time. We don’t know what the next few weeks or next few months might bring to...
Tips to Manage Health & Anxiety
DAILY LIFE Hand washingHand washing is one of the most effective ways to combat the COVID-I9. This virus has a lipid envelope (a layer of fat) around its internal structure. Once that lipid/fat layer is compromised the virus is pretty much rendered...
Spring is Coming!
Happy Monday! Here in Camillus, NY we have been fortunate to experience beautiful weather at the end of February. Temperatures have been in the upper 40s and low 50s. Though in some places of the country, this weather might be considered cold, we’ll take it in Upstate...
Personal Growth
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble…They can never be solved, but only outgrown. – C. G. Jung The quote above by Carl Jung is one of my favorite quotes, because it speaks well to the process of counseling. I find...