Practical advice and expert insights from Jonathan F. Anderson, LPC‑s, to support your mental health.
The Person Behind the Toxicity Before we talk about how to deal with toxic people, it is worth understanding what you are actually dealing with. Toxic people are often kind…
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Why Rejection and Failure Hit So Hard Rejection and failure activate some of the oldest wiring in the human brain. Social rejection, in particular, registers in many of the same…
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When Everything Feels Like an Ordeal Depression has a way of rewriting your experience of daily life. Things that used to feel manageable start feeling like too much. Things that…
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The Transition Nobody Fully Prepares For Most college preparation focuses on applications, financial aid, and choosing the right school. Those things matter. But the transition from high school to college…
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Codependency is one of those words that gets thrown around loosely, but the actual experience of it is anything but casual. At its core, codependency is a pattern where your…
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If you are reading this, you are probably already aware that something in your life has crossed from occasional to compulsive, from recreational to required. Maybe someone you care about…
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Mindfulness and meditation get treated like the same thing, and they overlap, but they are not identical. Meditation is usually the formal practice: sitting, following your breath, returning to an…
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When Your Child Struggles Socially: What Parents Need to Know Most parenting advice about social skills focuses on teaching specific behaviors. Make eye contact. Ask questions. Share your toys. And…
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The Secret Most Successful People Keep You got the promotion, finished the degree, landed the client, or built the thing everyone said could not be built. By any external measure,…
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When “Pushing Through” Stops Working You have always been the reliable one. The person who stays late, picks up the slack, and figures it out. You pride yourself on your…
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