I have to be honest with you: in my household, Valentine’s Day is not really that significant to my husband and I. It kind of feels like a Hallmark holiday to us. Our wedding anniversary, however, now that feels important. It feels like every single year we earn that...
Today I would like to share a neuroscience trick with you, in case you would like to feel more hope and happiness after the horrific year that we’ve been through. Anxiety Our brains create pathways to access negative emotions such as stress and anxiety. Of course our...
There’s nothing like a global pandemic to put our mental health fitness, emotional agility, and overall resiliency to the test. Experts say that we should always be enacting certain self-care routines not only to get us through the pandemic, but to shore up our...
If you’re in a long term relationship, you have absolutely noticed that the chronic stress and the ever-changing dynamics with the pandemic is absolutely working against relationship fulfillment on a lot of levels. Oftentimes, after a relationship has gone through a...
How do you cope after eleven months of this chaos? This week I was scheduled to receive my second COVID vaccination as a healthcare worker, and then being able to follow it with a night on the town with my best friend who I haven’t seen in person in seven months....
We are officially 320 days into this mess, so it’s probably not too surprising that so many of you are reporting to me that you’re feeling just … blah. Unmotivated. Every day just feels exactly like the next. There’s not as much hope in your bloodstream as you would...
