Mental Health
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How Embracing Wonder Makes Us Happier and Healthie
Psychologist Jonah Paquette dedicated a whole book to the emotion of awe in his newest book, Awestruck: How Embracing Wonder…
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Post Traumatic Growth in the Aftermath of Covid
Coming out of the deep freeze of winter and seeing signs of new life, I am struck by nature’s inherent…
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The Value of Coldness — Worth the Shock?
Often when people consider ways to regulate their emotions and body systems, ease aches and pains, and promote healing, they…
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Intuitive Self-Care — Reflections from the Resiliency Center Practitioner Community
We all face the winter doldrums! Below are some self-care practices that Resiliency Center community members engage in during winter…
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Play as Preventative Care At Any Age
“The opposite of play is not work—it’s depression.” — Brian Sutton Smith As a play therapist, I support young people…
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Restorative and Transformative Justice
Underwood, M.Ed. “How do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in…
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Optimism Practice to Increase Happiness
Positive Psychology encourages us to engage in optimism practices in order to increase our happiness in everyday life. It is…
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Sleeping through the pandemic
Most of us are all too familiar with the anguish of waking up in the middle of the night, struggling…
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Travel as a Restorative and Transformative Experience
As summer ends and we continue to return to life pre-pandemic, the busy lives we led…
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Restarting
In a yoga class I took twenty years ago, the teacher told us our bodies are different every day. So,…
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Coaxing My Worst Dance Partner Down the Stairs and Out the Door
Late at night, after another day of moving so little my whole body hurt and topping it…
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