Welcome to our ‘Minding What Matters’ blog, where we break down evidence-based mental health and wellness strategies into easily understandable and practical tips.
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.
Between therapy sessions, it’s essential to capitalize on the time to further your personal growth and mental well-being. Here are 7 strategies to make the most of the period between your therapy appointments.
If you’ve ever felt trapped by self-doubt or struggled with low self-esteem, art therapy may hold the key to your emotional liberation. Engaging in art therapy can provide a safe space for self-expression allowing you to explore your thoughts, emotions, and experiences. Art therapy can help you foster self-acceptance and greater confidence.
You may be the 1 in 7 women, or 1 in 10 men that have a Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder (PMADs). These can include Perinatal Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, Bipolar Disorder, and Psychosis—and can happen before, during, or after the pregnancy / adoption process.
Moods can fluctuate throughout the year – even in the summertime. You may be surprised and even frustrated should you find yourself feeling SAD in the summertime. Read on to learn more about seasonal affective disorder that can occur even in the summer.
Art therapy has the power to heal and transform. Some of the benefits of art therapy may be new to you. Read on to learn more about how art therapy can help.
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.
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