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<strong>Supporting Your Child Struggling with their Mental Health: Strategies to Encourage Growth and Resilience</strong>

Supporting Your Child Struggling with their Mental Health: Strategies to Encourage Growth and Resilience

Parenting
Caring for a child with mental illness can be a challenging and heart-wrenching experience for any parent. Mental health struggles can impact a child's emotional well-being, academic performance, and overall quality of life. As a parent, it's important to provide unconditional love and support, while also encouraging your child to keep going and growing despite the challenges they may face. In this article, we will discuss how to support your children who are struggling with mental illness and how to push them to keep moving forward on their journey to recovery.   Educate yourself and seek Professional help  Educating yourself about your child's mental illness is crucial to understanding their condition and how to support them effectively. Learn about the symptoms, triggers, and available treatment options. It's also important to…
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Navigating Divorce: Tips on Keeping Your Family Strong Throughout the Process 

Navigating Divorce: Tips on Keeping Your Family Strong Throughout the Process 

divorce, Parenting, Tips
Divorce can be an emotionally challenging experience for any couple, especially when children are involved. It can be difficult for parents to navigate the process of separation and divorce while still maintaining a sense of normalcy and stability for their children. However, with the right approach, it is possible to successfully get through a divorce with children and help your family transition to a new phase of life. Talk to your children One of the most important things you can do when navigating divorce with children is to communicate with them. Children may have a lot of questions and concerns about what is happening, and it is important to be open and honest with them. Try to explain the situation in a way that is age-appropriate and reassuring. Let them know that…
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5 Healthy Ways To Deal With Loss and Grief

5 Healthy Ways To Deal With Loss and Grief

Blog, Therapy, Tips
Dealing with grief is one of the most challenging experiences a person can face. Losing a loved one, a relationship, or even a job can bring up hard feelings of sadness, anger, and confusion. However, it's important to acknowledge and process these emotions in a healthy way to avoid long-term negative effects on our physical and mental health. Here are five healthy ways to deal with grief: Express your feelings The first step in dealing with grief is to allow yourself to feel your emotions. Bottling up your feelings can lead to depression and anxiety, among other health problems. It's essential to have a healthy outlet to express your emotions. This can be through journaling, talking to a trusted friend or therapist, or attending a support group. Don't be afraid…
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Getting Back On Track With Your Goals: How To End 2022 With A Bang!

Getting Back On Track With Your Goals: How To End 2022 With A Bang!

Blog, Motivation, Tips
We are approaching the end of 2022 rather quickly; however, it is not too late to get back on track with your goals. If you are looking to end your 2022 with a bang, then do these 5 steps to get you closer to achieving your goals: Don’t dwell on what you could have accomplished It is easy to ruminate over what you could have accomplished during the year but did not. Understand that you will fall short at some point in your life and that is OK. However, the way you respond to the setback is the determinant on how successful you will be. Learn from your past mistakes and move forward with your goals.  Adjust your previous goals to fit your current reality  If a significant amount of…
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4 Signs That You’ve Outgrown Your Relationship

4 Signs That You’ve Outgrown Your Relationship

Relationship
Relationships are bound to change. As time passes, our relationships will face a few roadblocks, turns, bumps, highs, lows, and everything in between. Sometimes, these shifts can cause you to wonder if the relationship is meant for you anymore. Fluctuations in relationships are normal; however, if you notice that these changes have impacted your relationship drastically, it may be time to re-assess. If you start questioning your relationship, think about these 5 signs to determine whether or not you have outgrown your relationship. You feel drained when you are with your partner If you constantly feel depleted after spending time with them, it might be time to rethink their place in your life. Feeling drained is a sign that you might be overextending yourself while not being mutually fulfilled by…
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6 Tips To Help You Sleep Better

6 Tips To Help You Sleep Better

Tips
A good night’s sleep is just as important as regular exercise and a healthy diet. Research shows that poor sleep has immediate negative effects on your hormones, exercise performance, and brain function. It can also cause weight gain and increase disease risk in both adults and children.  If you have a new year resolution of sleeping well for the next year, the following tips can make it successful: Increase bright light exposure during the day: Natural sunlight or bright light during the day helps keep your circadian rhythm healthy. This improves daytime energy, as well as nighttime sleep quality and duration. Reduce blue light exposure in the evening:  Blue light exposure tricks your brain into thinking it’s still daytime. This reduces hormones like melatonin, which help you relax and get…
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Develop Your Confidence in 2022

Develop Your Confidence in 2022

Motivation, Tips
Every year we make New Year's Resolutions and every year by the end of January we fail to keep up with them. For your New Year's Resolutions to work you need to develop healthy habits, positive thoughts and improve your self-confidence.Here are some self-reflective tips that can give your self-confidence a boost and help you understand how you can succeed with your new year resolutions:👉Focus your thoughts on being positive – an important aspect of starting the new year and finding success with your goals.👉Make a plan and take small steps to work through each task or activity. If you try to tackle your goal as one big project you are more likely to feel stressed and relapse into old habits. 👉Don’t associate yourself with negative people on social media or…
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7 Tips To Help You Have A More Active Lifestyle in 2022

7 Tips To Help You Have A More Active Lifestyle in 2022

Health, Tips
Did you include staying active in your new year resolutions? Staying active is one way to regain youthful energy and be more present at the moment. Here are seven tips that can help increase your energy and drive you towards a more active lifestyle in this new year: 👉Get up and move: The saying “exercise is good for the body” should never be underestimated. With the stressors of work and relationships, getting up and moving can provide a healthy detox. Exercising and being active for even a mere 20 minutes a day can add years to your life span. 👉Drink more water: Drinking more water keeps the energy level flowing and stress levels down. When dehydrated, the water content in your blood diminishes and your body struggles to carry the…
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The best kept secrets to your best life are often overlooked

The best kept secrets to your best life are often overlooked

Health, Therapy, Tips
  When it comes to living our best lives, there are countless universal guides that focus on goal setting, self-motivation, work-life balance, etc. While they are important part of the journey, these pointers speak of what we can do to move forward after the foundation has been established. The truth is, the pillars to living our best lives are much simpler but very often overlooked. At Therapeutic Center for Hope, we spend a lot of time looking at the link between people's habits, lifestyle, stress, and health and what we found is that a lot of people are held back by misconceptions about what living their best lives look like. Often depending on willpower alone to make things happen. As important as willpower is, it is far more beneficial to…
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Truth About Depression Among Men and Overcoming It

Truth About Depression Among Men and Overcoming It

Health, Therapy
    The state of our mental health is the prerequisite of our success yet we often put the care of our mental health on the back seat. When stress goes unmanaged that further develop into depression, we often dismiss it as simply stress or being fatigued when the reality is far more serious and more prevalent. A report by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) shows that 16.2 million adults and 3.1 million teens (ages 12-17) have had at least one major depressive episode. A statistics that warrants attention and solution as depression that goes untreated or managed can result in severe injury or death. What the report does not notice is that while depression is an issue that gets a spotlight in the media, it is a…
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