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Mental Health Blog: Minding What Matters

Evidence-Based Strategies for the Mental Health Enthusiast!

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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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Latest Articles

Both/And Thinking

What Is Both/And Thinking: A DBT-Inspired Guide to Embracing Life’s Messy Middle

Both/And thinking, inspired by Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), helps us move beyond black-and-white thinking by making space for life’s contradictions. It reminds us that two opposing truths can exist at once—you can be overwhelmed and grateful, healing and hurting, strong and still need support. This mindset allows for more emotional flexibility, less inner conflict, and a deeper acceptance of life’s messy middle.

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Rejection Sensitivity

What Is Rejection Sensitivity? Recognizing the Signs and Finding Relief 

“Have you ever felt intense emotional pain over a small comment, or assumed someone was upset with you—without clear evidence? You might be experiencing rejection sensitivity. This heightened emotional response to perceived rejection can impact your self-esteem, relationships, and mental well-being. In this guide, we’ll break down what rejection sensitivity is, how to recognize it in your daily life, and most importantly, how to find relief through proven coping strategies and self-awareness.

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Decision Fatigue

Decision Fatigue and Mental Overload: How to Make Decisions Easier Every Day

Do you ever feel drained by the end of the day—not from physical tasks, but from having to make too many choices? From what to wear to how to respond to emails, decision fatigue can quietly wear down your mental energy and leave you overwhelmed. In this post, we break down what decision fatigue is, why it happens, and how to ease the daily pressure by simplifying your routines, reducing mental clutter, and creating systems that work for you.

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Helpful Resources

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.