Tag: Stress Management
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How to Feel Less Depressed During the Holiday
Depression during the holiday season is not uncommon and can be especially difficult to manage. After all, this is supposed to be the happiest time of the year. Is it not? It’s everywhere you look in American society…holiday movies, books, and music is filled with hope, love, and togetherness. Being bombarded with holiday merriment can…
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How to Adjust Your Superhero Cape During Turbulent Times
The only thing that is constant is change. These words ring just as true 1,500 years after they were first spoken by Heraclitus in ancient Greece. My love for Greek philosophy aside…my career has taken some very dramatic twist and turns over the past 3 years and I’ve had to adjust a lot to keep moving forward.…
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Prevent School Counselor Burnout with Self-Care
Self-care can seem like a pipe dream when school counselors are stretched to the max at the end of the school year. As summer break approaches, educators can find themselves mentally tapped out and questioning their ability to make it through the last 15 days with their sanity intact. Rather than go through all of…
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Seize the Moment: The Art of Failing Forward
Typically, we associate “seizing the moment” with some sort of victory. I’m not talking about that kind of “seize the moment”. I’m talking about the moments in life when we fall flat on our face, when we feel like crawling under the covers for the next 48 hours (or so), when we question why we…
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18 Coping Skills: Strategies for Children and Teens
Coping skills have been a pretty popular topic for discussion over on The Helpful Counselor Facebook Page. So many great ideas were shared that I thought it would be good to write a coping skills blog post to have them in one place. 🙂 Here are some of the great coping skill strategies (in no…
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75 Reasons Behind Your Child’s Anger
“I don’t know how you do it.” <- A phrase I often hear after responding to a call to help an angry child who is throwing desks across the room or displaying some other type of aggressive behavior. The answer is simple: It’s not personal. As long as care is taken to not aggravate their…