Welcome to our ‘Minding What Matters’ blog, where we break down evidence-based mental health and wellness strategies into easily understandable, practical, and readily applicable strategies.
Through our ‘Minding What Matters’ blog, we invite you to focus on the essential elements that contribute to a fulfilling life. We emphasize prioritizing what truly matters, such as nurturing meaningful relationships, achieving personal goals, embracing core values, cultivating a healthy mindset, and fully savoring the present moment. By Minding What Matters, we want you to cultivate a mindful approach to living, being intentional about directing attention and energy towards the aspects of life that bring meaning and fulfillment.
Whether you are currently in therapy or seeking additional tools to complement your wellness journey, our blog offers practical concepts and techniques designed to support your mental health goals. While informative, the content is not therapy and is not intended to diagnose, treat, or replace professional medical or psychological advice.
We invite you to explore, reflect, and take what’s helpful as you continue building a life rooted in well-being.
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Big change often feels impossible—but the secret isn’t in giant leaps, it’s in tiny steps. This post explores how small, consistent actions build momentum, reduce stress, and reshape your habits over time. From work to home to self-care, you’ll see how daily micro-commitments create resilience and move you toward the life you want.
Achievement fatigue happens when the constant push to accomplish more leaves you mentally and emotionally drained, even in the middle of success. It’s the quiet burnout that shows up as exhaustion, loss of motivation, or feeling like achievements never feel “enough.” The good news? You don’t have to give up your goals to recover. With small shifts in mindset, energy management, and intentional pauses, you can restore balance and keep moving forward without losing momentum.
If every item on your to-do list feels like a massive challenge, you’re not alone. Driven individuals often turn everyday tasks into exhausting “mental marathons,” leading to stress and burnout. This post explores why it happens and offers practical shifts to help you work smarter, stay motivated, and protect your well-being.
Feeling rushed and stretched thin? Mental buffer time—those small pauses between tasks—can help you slow down, reset, and tackle your day with more focus and ease. Learn simple ways to build these mini-breaks into your routine.
Anxiety often creates worst-case scenarios. Learn practical ways to check the facts, stay grounded, and stop the cycle of anxious thoughts.
Overwhelmed by your environment? Take a 30-minute sensory audit to reduce stress, boost focus, and create a calming home or workspace tailored to your mind and body.
As wellness and mental health providers, we want you to be well-informed and we are often recommending resources that we think will help to enhance your journey.
Some of these are resources that we have found personally to be of great value.
Others are resources that we have heard high praises about from clients, other providers, and other professionals.
At times, we can quickly pull a book or other item off of our shelf as an illustrative reference. At other times, you may find yourself endless searching for that helpful needle in a haystack.
Together, providers at Dakhari Psychological Services, LLC have worked to curate resources and to partner with Amazon to help you more readily locate items and to purchase them. While these resources are not being recommended by us as a specific endorsement of any claim, are not intended to treat or cure any illness/disease, and remain at the discretion of the original author/developer/manufacturer – we do hope that the resources will prove helpful.
Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.com. We may receive commissions for purchases made through links to various other companies in these posts. We also recommend resources for which we have no affiliate relationship or where there may be relationships outside of Amazon. The presence or absence of affiliate relationships do not affect which products are included in our articles. All of the products that we recommend are due to their intended benefit(s) regardless of any affiliate relationships.
