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Category Archives: Mental Health
Blog posts related to mental health, including specific conditions
Mental Health and Aging: Why It Matters and How to Prioritize It
Learn about the importance of mental health in aging adults and how to prioritize it in your own life. This blog post explores the ways in which mental health affects overall health, including physical, social, and environmental factors. It also discusses the unique challenges and risks that seniors may face, such as cognitive decline, depression, and anxiety. Whether you’re a senior looking to take control of your mental wellness or a caregiver seeking resources for your loved one, this post provides practical tips and strategies for promoting mental health and well-being in aging adults.
[Video] Gratitude as a Way to Manage Feelings of Stress
It’s often said that expressing gratitude can help you feel better. In this video, I share why this is helpful for managing stress.
Shadow Work: Getting to Know Your “Dark Side”
We all have a “dark side” or “shadow” to ourselves. Engaging in shadow work can help you know yourself better. This post offers some tips.
No-Cost Tips for Managing Stress
Stress is a natural part of life. It is something that everyone experiences at times, regardless of age. (Because even though they may not be able to articulate it, children feel stress too.) Stress is a normal response to situations that we, whether consciously or unconsciously, perceive to be threatening. However, when stress becomes too […]
Music-Based Mindfulness Exercises: 4 Ways To Be, Hear, Now
“Mindfulness” is a big craze. It seems like every day I read a new article describing the benefits of mindfulness and mindfulness exercises. From incorporating it in healthcare, schools, and business, more and more people and organizations are recognizing how mindfulness can have a positive effect on them. And I think that’s great. I believe […]
Using Music To Help You Express Your Personal Narrative
Everyone has a story. Every experience we have in life contributes to our life story. These experiences help create the personal narrative we tell ourselves, whether consciously or subconsciously. Sometimes these personal narratives are positive. And in these cases, we can look back at ourselves and our lives from a place of contentment or pride. […]
Music and Transcendence in Music Therapy
In my last blog post, I wrote about some of the health benefits of having transcendent experiences. With this blog post, I’ll be looking more closely at music and transcendence within music therapy so that you can see how such an approach may be helpful to you if you’re looking to do therapy. I’ll do this […]
Transcendent Experiences: What They Are and How They Can Benefit Your Health
Have you ever had an experience where you felt connected to something greater than yourself? If so, you had a transcendent experience. Transcendent experiences move us beyond our individual ego-sense of who we are and help us to perceive ourselves differently. As a result, they can help us feel connected to the world around us […]
Whole Health Benefits of Singing
Did you know that there are a variety of health benefits of singing? [1] The thought of singing can bring up a variety of feelings for a person. For some people, singing is something that they enjoy. Or at least singing has been enjoyable to them in the past. Whereas for other people, singing can […]