How To Help Your Teenager Manage Stress
Let’s face it, being a teenager is hard! Between doing well in school, performing on sports teams or other after-school activities, balancing a social life, and dealing with changes that come with getting older, it’s almost impossible to avoid stress altogether. If your teenager is experiencing stress brought on by getting older and gaining more […]
Managing Weight and an Immune Friendly Diet
With regular day to day stressors, it’s already hard to maintain your weight and a healthy diet. Now we have to try doing it during a global pandemic! Well, we’re here to help guide you in these troubled times. It can be difficult to stay on track of what you’re eating when you’re stuck in […]
COVID-19 Series: Parenting Anxious Children
With schools and workplaces closed and public life suspended, parents are struggling to juggle childcare and remote work, while also managing their child’s anxiety and their own anxiety about COVID-19. There are a variety of different expressions of anxiety in children, including: reassurance-seeking, reluctance to separate from parents, physical symptoms like headaches or stomachaches, trouble […]
The Mind-Body Response to Stress
In these uncertain times, many people are experiencing fear and worry related to COVID-19. According to a poll conducted by the American Psychiatric Association, 36% of Americans reported that the virus “is having a serious impact on their mental health (1).” The increase in anxiety has translated into other behaviors for some people, including difficulty […]