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Building Memories

September 30, 2025 No Comments

The days that stick out to you: do they fill you with love, joy, happiness? Or do they fill you with a heavy weight? Our minds tend to focus on the negatives in life. It’s how we survive: scan for threats, notice them, and remember, so you can survive the threat.

So, remembering your favorite dish is out of stock on a night out is more likely to stick in your mind than the delicious taste of your second favorite dish. It may even cloud your senses so you don’t notice the cute baby’s contagious laughter (but you do notice the tiny pieces of burnt food instead).

This week, let’s examine our memories and discover how we can build positive, long-lasting, happy memories.

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Do Nothing

April 1, 2025 No Comments

When was the last time that you let yourself do nothing? Truly nothing. Not “avoiding a task by playing video games or watching TV or talking with a friend” nothing. But the “sitting and staring at a wall” type of nothing.

When was the last time you last yourself just be?

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Live in the Moment

December 24, 2024 No Comments

The holidays are here, ready to sweep you up in a whirlwind of busyness. Between the endless end-of-year tasks, it’s easy to miss the simple joys of the season and watch the days fly by.

But what if, instead of “looking forward to” a moment, we lived in this moment? This moment offers us an opportunity. An opportunity to laugh, to connect, to breathe, and to cherish these moments.

This week, let’s remind ourselves to slow down, live in the moment, and create memories.

Flow

January 2, 2024 No Comments

Have you ever been “in the zone” where everything around you melts away and all of your focus is on the task at hand? Your concentration doesn’t seem to waver and it’s rather effortless to sustain your attention on the task—whatever the task is, whether it’s painting, playing music, or working on menial tasks at work.

However, those moments are infrequent and perhaps happen less than you would prefer. So, this week, let’s discover how we can create more opportunities for us to get into the zone.

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Mindful Every Day

September 5, 2023 No Comments

Life has a way of sweeping us off our feet and dragging us along through the day, and we just hope we can make it to the end of the day. How can we slow down and savor our moments? Mindfulness techniques offer us a break from the rushing pace and help us appreciate the present.

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Managing Dissociation

June 20, 2023 No Comments

Last week, we covered the dissociation spectrum: from everyday forms of dissociation to dissociative disorders. This week, we’ll dive deeper into the coping strategies we can use to manage dissociation.

Breathwork

May 16, 2023 No Comments

Notice your breath.
Slowly inhale and feel your lungs expand;
then, release a long, relaxing breath.

Feeling lighter?

For most of the day, we breathe completely unconsciously, but breathing exercises are a simple, portable tool that can relieve stress and anxiety. So let’s shake things up a little bit and focus on our breath this week.

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Sensory Self-Soothing Kit

May 9, 2023 No Comments

In previous newsletters, we’ve shared how engaging the senses helps ground us in the present. We’ve also shared steps to build your own sensory kits.

This week, we’re revisiting our senses and building (or adding to) our sensory self-soothing kit!

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Check-In

March 28, 2023 No Comments

Occasionally, we like to pop in and see how you’re doing. It’s important for us to pause, breathe, and reflect on what we’ve learned, what we’ve accomplished, and what’s working or not working for us.

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Mindfulness

March 21, 2023 No Comments

It’s easy to become distracted by every social media notification, incoming text and email, and the million tasks that need to be completed by the end of the day. When we’re caught up in a storm of thoughts, worries, and anxieties, trying to keep afloat with all of the incoming information and demands, we tend to lose sight of the present moment.

This week, let’s look at how we can cultivate mindfulness by developing soft habits.

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