I am now a participating provider for Optum, the behavioral health side of United Healthcare. Although finding a provider who…
Alicia Polk
I didn’t want May to end without calling attention to the fact that it is Mental Health Awareness Month. It…
I don’t view DID as a mental illness. Yes, I know it is in the DSM-5 as a mental illness….
A lot of people are experiencing something they wouldn’t have imagined a year ago when the lockdowns started: anxiety about…
Many people struggle to say “no.” They may have grown up in a household where saying no was seen as…
Dr. Christine Padesky, coauthor of the best selling book Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel By Changing the Way…
I’ve been thinking about the topic of failure. Fear of failure, for instance, can be a major root cause of…
Before long, trees will begin blooming in the area and our spring allergy season will be underway. Up to 30%…
I’ve written before about “all-or-nothing” thinking. This is the kind of thinking that says, “If I can’t do something perfectly,…
In this time of political unrest, the pandemic, the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, and the economic hardships…