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This has always been a tenant of the recovery movement, and it holds true for all of us. I have seen what giving back can do for a person and how it can life you out of your own depression and anxiety. It is not…

I know right now everyone has advice on how to get through this pandemic, myself included. And I think this is mostly coming from a desire to help one another. That being said, what works for others may not work for you. That does not…

This is my favorite quote of all time. I love the message which is all the more powerful as Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist who survived the Holocaust. He wrote the book Man’s Search for Meaning about his experiences in a concentration camp. We…

A key feature of mental health is flexibility and adaptability. Our beliefs and coping strategies and decision making should all be informed by the particulars of a situation. Life experiences and learning should influence and inform our way of viewing ourselves and the world. When…

I know that right now it might be really hard not to give into the panic and paranoia, but we must try. As it stands right now, officials in San Diego say that the risk to the general population is low. Besides the recommendations out…

Hope is such a tricky, complex thing. It is an amazing motivator for change and persistence. And its absence can be devastating. Often when clients come to me, they have lost hope, or find that it is diminishing. In the beginning then, part of my…