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Shedding Light on Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Coping with Winter Blues
Throughout the past couple of winter months we’ve noticed many people finding themselves grappling with shifts in mood and energy. While...

Dena Lampert


Nurturing Mental Well-Being: The Crucial Role of Partial Credit in Achieving Long-Term Goals
Setting intentions and long-term goals is an achievement in itself, but it often comes with its fair share of challenges. In the pursuit...

Dena Lampert


My Best Ideas Come to Me When I'm Riding My Peloton
In the fast-paced modern world, our minds are often cluttered with the demands of work, relationships, and an ever-expanding to-do list....

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Overcoming Self-Doubt: Transforming Negative Thoughts into Empowering Beliefs
Self-doubt is powerful and it can hinder personal growth, success, and overall happiness. It manifests in various ways, impacting our...

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Is Ozempic the new Oxycontin?
In the mid-90s I was a young social worker who was relatively new to the field and working in an outpatient substance abuse treatment...

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Do You Think in Color? Or Black and White?
Life is rarely black and white, yet our minds often gravitate towards all-or-nothing thinking, a cognitive distortion that oversimplifies...

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Navigating Success Beyond Straight A’s
As parents, we often strive to provide the best opportunities for our children, including a high-quality education. One common...

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How To Balance Implementing Consequences and Tolerating Bad Behavior
Parenting is a journey filled with joys and challenges, and one of the most critical aspects is finding the right balance between...

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Navigating Tough Conversations With Children
As parents, we are faced with countless challenges, but few are as daunting as discussing difficult topics with our children. The thought...

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When Daily Structure Becomes Overscheduling
In our fast-paced society, it has become increasingly common for parents to schedule numerous activities for their children. Sports...

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Here's One Of 389,000,000 Opinions On Parenting
As a parent, it's no secret that our top priority is raising our children to be happy, healthy, and successful. But with so much...

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The Power of a Positive Work Ethic
Most of us spend upwards of 8 hours a day doing some kind of work. And while it’s essential in the world we live in, it’s hard - that’s...

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How Physical Fitness Affects Mental Health
In last month’s blog post, we shared our perspective on what emotional fitness is, how we can work on it, and the similarities between...

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Defining Your Emotional Fitness
If you know me you know that I’m a loyal Peloton rider. I ride as often as I can, not because I’m training for a triathlon or looking to...

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Our Emotional Survival Of The Tripledemic
The tripledemic. You’ve heard about it on the news, on social media, and conversation with friends and family, but what is it? The...

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How Do You Know If You’re Depressed?
Depression is a widely discussed topic nowadays, which for mental health is a step in the right direction. The more we can discuss mental...

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It's Time To Take A Break
I just returned from a vacation that I am only now realizing was long overdue. Between building a group practice, covid lockdowns, and...

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We Are Shooting Eachother
There have been over 350 mass shootings in the US so far this year and we’re only just into August. We are still trying to understand...

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The Power of Self-Acceptance
Something I’ve noticed a lot recently in my clients is that so many of them speak very negatively about themselves. Lots of them are...

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The Impact of Loneliness on Re-Integrating Ourselves Into the World
While it feels for some of us that life is back to normal now with no masks and no social isolation, the effects of the loneliness we...

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