Practical advice and expert insights from Jonathan F. Anderson, LPC‑s, to support your mental health.
Most people who have the same nightmare over and over have stopped mentioning it. They brought it up once, got told that dreams are just the brain processing things, and…
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You are lying in the dark doing arithmetic. If you fall asleep right now, that’s five hours and forty minutes. If you fall asleep in twenty minutes, that’s five hours…
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There is a particular cruelty to depression. The thing that reliably helps, getting your body moving, is also the thing depression works hardest to take away from you. You read…
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Most of us know what it feels like to get defensive. Someone says something about us or about our work, we feel the sting, and we push back before we…
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If you are caring for someone you love, you already know the role can quietly take over your life. You may have started with a few errands or appointments, and…
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From the outside, your life looks settled. The career is established, the kids are older or gone, the milestones are checked off. And yet somewhere in your forties or fifties,…
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You took the new job, or left the old one, or finally made the leap you spent years talking yourself into. On paper, it was the right move. So why…
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Most of us think of grief as something that begins after a loss. But sometimes the grieving starts well before the loss itself, in the stretch of time when you…
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Anticipatory rejection is the habit of rejecting yourself before anyone else gets the chance to. You decline the invitation before it can be withdrawn. You stay quiet in the meeting…
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When you’re anxious, overwhelmed, or caught in a wave of panic, breathing is one of the fastest ways to shift your nervous system back toward calm. It’s also one of…
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