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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You’re driven, high-achieving, and constantly pushing forward—but underneath the success is a quiet exhaustion. In this post, we unpack what it means to be ambitiously overwhelmed -perhaps facing burnout – and how to reset your mindset, reclaim your mental well-being, and redefine success in a way that actually feels good.
You’ve done the breathing exercises, read the self-help books, maybe even gone to therapy—yet the anxiety still lingers. When it feels like you’ve exhausted every option, what’s left? This guide offers a new perspective: practical, compassionate strategies for when nothing seems to work. It’s not about trying harder—it’s about trying differently.
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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.
You’re driven, high-achieving, and constantly pushing forward—but underneath the success is a quiet exhaustion. In this post, we unpack what it means to be ambitiously overwhelmed -perhaps facing burnout – and how to reset your mindset, reclaim your mental well-being, and redefine success in a way that actually feels good.
Are your thoughts running the show? Cognitive defusion is a powerful technique from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) that helps you step back from anxious or negative thinking. In this post, you’ll learn what cognitive defusion is, why it matters for mental health, and five practical ways to apply it in everyday life to regain peace of mind.
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.
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