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Flip the Tense
Imagine you’re preparing a recipe that calls for two cups of flour. You open your pantry cabinet to retrieve the bag of flour and notice that the top of the bag is half-open. You’ve seen this before: it’s how your partner always leaves the bag, exposed to the air and, in your view, compromising freshness. You feel irritated.
Is Your Child Feeling the Effects of the "COVID Slide"? | Webinar
Children are returning to the classroom after more than a year of remote learning.
How to Make Sense of Procrastination
Imagine sitting down to complete a task you’ve been putting off. Maybe it’s a big task with lots of different parts; maybe it feels overwhelming, and you don’t know where to start; maybe it’s a task that feels mundane and that you have to do frequently. What emotions come up when you imagine yourself getting started on this task? What thoughts? One thing is for certain: We’ve…
Sports Psychologist, Dr. Michele Kerulis, Talks to WGN News About Protecting Athletes' Mental Health
In a monumental display of courage, one of USA Olympics’ most decorated athletes, four-time gold medal gymnast Simone Biles, has stepped away from the women’s gymnastics team competition in the 2020 Olympics to focus on her mental health.
Reentry Anxiety
After more than a year of pandemic stress; social isolation; and overlapping demands of work, home and school, many of us have been eagerly awaiting a return to normal. As the pace of vaccinations picked up in the early half of 2021 and states and municipalities relaxed restrictions, that return to a semblance of normality is upon us.
When Politics & Culture Disrupt Family Relationships
Do you love someone whose beliefs are so different from your own that it feels nearly impossible to bridge the gap? Therapist Aaron Cohn, Ph.D., LMFT, poses this question in his powerful new paper on navigating disrupted family relationships. Following the pandemic and the most divisive presidential election in recent history, many of us are intimately familiar with…
Mental Health & Substance Use
We asked Tamara Faulkner, LCSW, CADC, “What is the relationship between mental health and substance use disorders?”
Pathologizing Disorders
We asked Tamara Faulkner, LCSW, CADC, “We often hear the term ‘pathologizing coping skills,‘ particularly when talking about substance use disorder. What does this term mean?”