Tag: Behavioral Health

How to Make Any Day Amazing

Isn’t it wonderful when you wake up with that feeling of everything going your way? The alarm doesn’t startle you awake, the sun isn’t glaring in your eyes, your morning coffee is just as you like it

Staying Motivated through it All

It isn’t always easy to stay motivated. Life has a way of throwing curve balls at you when you least expect them—not to mention are least prepared for them. When you are participating in any sort of w

Getting Motivated for the Long-Run

It is often said that the first step is the most difficult, but when it comes to losing weight this is only partially true. Getting started with a weight loss program does take a leap of faith, and fo

Emotional Eating or True Hunger?

Food is supposed to be something we use to satisfy our hunger and provide our bodies with valuable vitamins and nutrients. But for many people, food has become more than just fuel for the daily activi

Strike a Pose—Why Yoga is a Good Idea

Yoga focuses on slow movements and deep, calming breathing, and because of this, it can calm the mind, improve mood and leave you feeling mentally reinvigorated.

Emotional Eating: A Weight Loss Obstacle

Stress, anger, loneliness, frustration, boredom, sadness—each of these can be a catalyst for emotional eating, which plagues many weight loss hopefuls with habitual overeating. When we’ve had a hard d

Chronic Fatigue-Fighting Tricks

While you seek treatment for chronic fatigue it helps to have a few energy boosting tricks on-hand throughout the day. Depending on the severity of your chronic fatigue symptoms, some simple fatigue-f

Hot Flashes in Menopause

A hot flash occurs when a woman suddenly becomes flushed with heat, and is sometimes accompanied by redness and sweating.

Do You Suffer from Anxiety?

To experience some amount of anxiety is perfectly normal. On your way to a job interview, when meeting new people, or before speaking in public, it’s normal to feel anxious. But if you feel anxious ev

Fight Work-Related Weight Gain

Research shows that a stressful job can be a contributing factor for obesity. An increase in stress hormones can make your body store fat more efficiently and trigger cravings for unhealthy foods. Peo

Normal Stress or Anxiety?

Anxiety is something we all experience at one time or another, but how can you know when it is more than normal concern? While being worried about something that causes you stress can be a normal reac

Dual-Brain Psychology

Dual-Brain Psychology (DBP) is a revolutionary, brain-based approach to understanding and treating human behavior. Developed by Fredric Schiffer, M.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Don’t let the name intimidate you; EMDR is an effective treatment for traumatic memories that cause the symptoms of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Cognitive Therapy

Cognitive therapy seeks to help an individual identify dysfunctional thought patterns, assess the pattern for both its validity and lack of validity, and then creates a more “balanced” and modified th