The month of April is recognized as National Stress Awareness Month. The purpose of this recognition is to bring attention and awareness to the negative impacts of stress. It’s so important to understand how to manage our stress in order to live a happy and healthy lifestyle. Having stress management skills can improve mental and physical well-being and minimize exacerbation other health-related issues.

The month of April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) and April 2024 marks the 23rd anniversary of SAAM’s national recognition. Campaigns for SAAM focus on raising awareness and visibility about sexual assault, as well as sharing how it can be prevented, whether that’s through education about healthy sexuality, consent, or bystander intervention. Check out this blog post for more information on what is sexual assault and how SAAM is raising awareness.

If you or a loved one suffer from sexual addiction, or an inability to control behaviors around sex and even pornography use, then this book is for you! This book review briefly discusses the book: ‘Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction’ written by Partick Carnes, Ph.D.. Dr. Carnes is a well known speaker, writer, and pioneer of treatment for addiction, specifically sexual addiction. This book provides a wonderful introduction into understanding the building blocks of sex addiction and delivers material in a way that is easy to understand and makes those suffering from addiction feel less alone.

Struggling with being present? Could you improve your communication skills? Struggling with managing emotions? Do you want to learn relationship skills? This class can help! Mindfulness is a skill in which you focus on being intensely aware of what you're sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgment. Mindfulness can help to reduce stress and suffering and increase contentment. Check out our website class information page linked in the post for more information!

Do you find yourself apologizing for every little thing? Then this blog post is for you! We dive into alternatives you can use when your apology is not actually warranted — and how your apology might actually be more harmful than helpful!

Habits help us automate our behaviors so we don’t have to use previous brain power to those decisions. As we all know, we can engage in habits that benefit us and habits that don’t benefit us or are even harmful. It can seem overwhelming to consider changing huge parts of our daily lives to create new habits. But what if those changes didn’t have to be huge for them to make an impact? What if small changes could foster bigger growth? Check out this blog post for some ideas on what small changes you could make to see some big payoffs!

Many of us have that voice inside our heads that provides commentary for our everyday lives 24/7. Does your inner voice pump you up, encourage you, and cheer you on? Or does it ridicule you, call you names, and tell you that you are not good enough? You might think that it doesn’t matter how you talk to yourself, but it actually trickles down to impact so much more than just the commentary in our heads. Check out this blog post for more information on how our inner voice, or self-talk, impacts us.

Are you a part of the approximately 88% of individuals who set a New Year’s resolution but then never achieve it? If so, this blog post is for you! We go over multiple ways to increase the likelihood of you achieving your New Year’s goal by going through tips for setting, planning, and executing your goal. Kick of this New Year with new intentions that develop into new habits!

The holiday season is not full of joy, celebration, and cheer for everyone. Sometimes it feels more like a stress season, filled with financial worries, grief, challenging family dynamics, and feelings of low mood. If you don’t feel like a Christmas Hallmark movie during this time of year, check out some of the tips in this blog post for ways in which you can improve your management of holiday stressors this year.

Seasonal Affective Disorder, also known as the winter blues or seasonal depression, affects many individuals. Fortunately, there are treatments for symptoms and even ways to possible prevent on the onset of symptoms or decrease the severity of symptoms. If you suffer from the winter blues, this blog post is for you!

Sex addiction is a challenge that has been increasing in frequency among many individuals. Sometimes it is also tied in with pornography use and masturbation. Despite this becoming a more common problem, sex addiction isn’t actually diagnosable in the U.S. Click here to learn more about the controversy surrounding the diagnosis of sex addiction, potential criteria for the addiction, and to learn about various factors that impact someone’s relationship to sex, pornography, and masturbation.

We know that both men and women experience mental health struggles, including depression. So why is it that men are judged differently for reaching our for support? How do we change the narrative to show that men asking for help is not a bad thing? Click here for more information!

Who is responsible for preventing crime? Is it only on the police or does it fall on the federal and state leaders too? In this blog post we explore some of the evidence-based interventions for addressing the rising crime rates in the United States.

1 in 5 adults in the U.S. will have a mental illness but everybody has mental health. October is Mental Illness Awareness Month and this post answers the question, ‘what is mental illness?’ and discusses self-help versus professional diagnosing and treatment.

In the United States, 20 states plus the federal government have statutes pertaining to civil commitment. Click here for more information on what is civil commitment and how it applies to sexual offenders in Massachusetts.

TRIGGER WARNING: This post discusses language used when discussing suicide and the topic of suicide is addressed. Please read with caution**

Just like slang and other popular phrases come and go with time, the language we use to discuss the topic of suicide shifts and evolves, for various reasons. This blog post goes over current changes in wording used in communication around the topic of suicide, as well as how to talk about suicide online and with others in a respectful manner.

You might think of the popular TV show ‘Criminal Minds’ when you think of forensic psychology… but in reality Morgan, Reid, JJ, Hotch, and Gideon are only showing a small portion of what is considered to be forensic psychology work.

We all could use a little more happiness sprinkled into our lives! Click for information on what is happiness and suggestions for your continued happiness exploration.

Most of us use social media to some capacity. Is your social media use negatively impacting you or do you receive positive benefits from it?

Are you curious to learn more about what mindfulness is? Do you want to learn easy ways you can begin to practice mindfulness? This post is for you!