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How to help children manage stress caused by California wildfires

CCRC

Whether theyre evacuated or simply hearing the sirens and smelling smoke, the experience can create feelings of anxiety and fear in children. The stress of the California wildfires can be overwhelming for children, who cannot understand the chaos.

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Managing Self-Awareness and Mental Health

My Brains Not Broken

Essentially, it is a psychological state in which oneself becomes the focus of attention. After months seeing the same therapist, I’ve been able to notice habits and patterns with how my anxiety/depression affect me and how I live my life. So, what is self-awareness? Very Well Mind.

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Teenagers and Mental Health: A Q&A with Tilly’s Life Center

My Brains Not Broken

A big focus of our curriculum is building self esteem and teaching effective communication skills. When a teen has self-worth and is able to effectively communicate, they organically make better decisions. Are there differences between different generations of teens when it comes to how they approach mental health?

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What is Mindbody Science?

Beautiful Voyager

My Ultimate Stress Relief Cheat Sheets , published last July, kicked off with a timeline of answers to the question: Why didnt I know that anxiety was behind my pain? Is anxiety connected to the physical pain I am in? Credit: NASA and ESA. 2015: I dont care why I didnt know. I want to know why the therapists I saw didnt know.

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Nurse Depression and Anxiety: Stopping the Mental Health Crisis

Relias

According to a recent American Nurses Association survey , 30% of nurses — nearly one-third — said they are “not emotionally healthy” or “not at all emotionally healthy,” with an increasing number of nurses struggling with depression or anxiety. What causes nurse depression and anxiety? Nurses on a break talking and walking together.

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Play-Based Learning in Early Childhood Education

CCRC

They express themselves freely, trying out different behaviors or ideas, without fear or anxiety. Creating a situation and responding to the scenario and characters involved helps a childs brain reinforce pathways of communication, problem solving, and expected outcomes. Or the child is the doctor and the caregiver is the patient.

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Guest Post: Interview with Randye Kaye: Podcast Co-Host of Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches and Author of Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope and Happier Made Simple: Choose Your Words

Bipolar Bandit

The common thread is communication: via body and voice, and more specifically, the words we choose: words we write, words we speak, words we choose to tell our stories to ourselves and each other. I had also begun to study positive psychology and found advice to be accurate and insightful but also often overly complex and devoid of humor.