Establishing a Daily Routine to Maximize Mental and Spiritual Health (Part 4: Social Connection)
It’s hard enough as an adult to make and maintain friendships, but now that we have a global pandemic during an election year, it seems nearly impossible to be as connected socially as we would like to be. I think about my friend who joined a new church in February,...
Establishing a Daily Routine to Maximize Mental and Spiritual Health (Part 3: Movement)
Exercise wasn’t something we talked about a lot in my home growing up, although my parents took us on daily walks or bike rides. We weren’t a particularly athletic family, and I grew up believing that I was hopelessly uncoordinated and bad at sports. Moving into...
Establishing a Daily Routine to Maximize Mental and Spiritual Health (Part 2: Nutrition)
I love food and coffee and there are very few days when I don’t have a plan for both. In fact, food has been one of those “thorn in the side” issues in my life since childhood. Despite trying loads of dieting methods from my teenage years on, it wasn’t until my...
Establishing a Daily Routine to Maximize Mental and Spiritual Health (Part 1: Sleep)
The routines you had in 2019, or even early 2020, probably look nothing like the routines you have now. Who would have known when we did our New Year’s 2020 planning and goals that everything would be turned upside down? Last week I wrote about grounding activities to...
Grounding for When You Need it Most
The memes, cartoons, and sayings for the year 2020 have abounded, and the cynical humor is part of what is getting us through this storm of a year as we face disaster after disaster. I have my own image of my Bitmoji character walking away from a dumpster fire labeled...
A Road Map for Therapy
Clients can feel more comfortable and invested in therapy when they know where they are going.
4 Types of Anxiety in Christians
Is it just me, or did anxiety become more of a thing this year? I've spent the last decade working with people with anxiety disorders of all types. It's one of those areas that I feel like I can be especially useful. When I was working as an intern in community mental...