Tips For When You Feel Too Busy To Eat

Tips For When You Feel Too Busy To Eat

Fueling our bodies is important for our mental and physical health. Food gives us the energy to live each day to our fullest potential. Despite knowing its importance, it may feel challenging to make time to eat with a busy schedule. You may find that the day has...
What is Social Anxiety & What Can Help

What is Social Anxiety & What Can Help

What is social anxiety disorder (SAD)? Everyone experiences shyness and fear in social settings from time to time, but social anxiety is more than just shyness or being an introvert. It is also normal to feel nervous before important social situations or in an...
Five Benefits of yoga for mental health

Five Benefits of yoga for mental health

Although you may be aware of the physical benefits that yoga offers, you may be less familiar with the benefits of yoga for mental health. Before outlining how yoga can improve your mental health, it should be of note yoga is an individual journey that is open to all...
Your First Therapy Session – What To Expect

Your First Therapy Session – What To Expect

First therapy session: Getting to know each other  It’s important to note that your first therapy session will look very different from ones after it. The first therapy appointment is all about getting to know each other, why you’re seeking therapy, and a plan to move...
Grounding Techniques for Trauma

Grounding Techniques for Trauma

Trauma and Traumatic Experiences It is very common to experience trauma. There are also many different types of trauma that someone can experience. When we think of trauma most of us think of something incredibly violent like a war or rape. Trauma actually can come in...
Therapist Approved Exercises For Anxiety Relief 

Therapist Approved Exercises For Anxiety Relief 

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in America, affecting about 40 million American adults each year. Despite being prevalent in almost 20% of the adult population, only around 37% of...
Gym anxiety: what it is and how to overcome it 

Gym anxiety: what it is and how to overcome it 

The first time several of us at our psychology practice stepped foot into a gym, we put one foot into the weight room, looked around, and walked right out. We know we’re not the only ones.    We’ve all felt anxious at the gym at some point. Those feelings of shame and...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Anxiety

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Anxiety

As the field of psychology is ever evolving, more and more therapeutic approaches are emerging. Cognitive behavioral therapy is one type of psychological treatment and therapy approach that originated in the 1960s and is still widely used today. Given how effective it...
Eating Disorder Treatment For Orthorexia

Eating Disorder Treatment For Orthorexia

Leading a healthy lifestyle can certainly improve your quality of life, however sometimes it can have the opposite effect if overdone. You may be wondering what the line is between healthy eating patterns and unhealthy eating patterns. We hope that this blog post can...
How To Stop Comparing Your Body To Others

How To Stop Comparing Your Body To Others

How often do you find yourself comparing your body to someone else’s? If you’re anything like most people, the answer is quite frequently. We’re all guilty of scrolling through social media and wishing our abs were as defined as the influencer’s. We’ve all been at the...
Perfectionism 101

Perfectionism 101

Perfectionism- Guest Blog By Atlanta Therapist Rachel Doreanu, APC Perfectionism can cause you to feel stressed. anxious, and add pressure to yourself. Thank you Rachel for writing this guest blog post about perfectionism. Perfectionism, it’s often shared in...
Supporting Others- How to best help

Supporting Others- How to best help

When friends or loved ones are struggling and tell us their problems or share negative emotions, we may feel like we need to jump in and help. Sometimes we have a tendency to problem-solve or try to quickly make the person feel better. We may feel pressure to find the...
How To Move More During The Day

How To Move More During The Day

How To Move More During The Day  Working from home can have many advantages. We don’t have to commute. We miss traffic. We can do laundry during our lunch. However, when we work from home we can spend all day sitting in front of the computer. Even if you are not...
What To Say To Someone With Anxiety

What To Say To Someone With Anxiety

How to Help And What To Say To Someone With Anxiety This blog post will talk about things you can say to a friend, loved one, or coworker who shares with you that they are feeling anxious. We will cover some ideas of what is helpful to say and also what is less...
Understanding Why You Stress Eat

Understanding Why You Stress Eat

This post will be focused on why people stress eat. I am Dr. Rebecca Leslie, an Atlanta based psychologist that specializes in stress eating. In this article I will focus on understanding why you stress eat, I will share what stress or emotional eating is (I will use...
The First Step To Changing Emotional Eating

The First Step To Changing Emotional Eating

Why problem solving with emotional eating is not the best first step If you are emotionally eating and want to know how to stop, an important step is to think about why you are emotionally eating. When we are struggling with something we badly just want to fix it and...
Wellness For College Students

Wellness For College Students

This blog post is focused on wellness for college students. We will talk about the challenges college students face and then tips to focus on health and wellness while at college. They say that college is some of the best years of your life, however there are many...

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