Kristen Garrity, M.S, LCPC

06/03/2025

When it comes to taking care of yourself, it’s important to remember that it’s perfectly okay to feel the way you’re feeling.

05/20/2025

tip: Remember that while self-care techniques are useful for improving your mental health, that doesn’t mean that you can or should do it all alone.

04/24/2025

04/24/2025

1. The parents on "Bluey" actually enjoy their children.

07/19/2022

Today marks the start of '9-8-8' as the new national su***de prevention and crisis hotline! The hotline will connect callers who may be experiencing distress with trained mental health counselors.

03/08/2022

This is so important 💯 You deserve everything on this list!

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02/20/2022

This message shared from my dear friend and artwork by H A R M O N Y]

Let's talk about LOVE. A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know. It cuts us off from our deepest potential for connecting and caring; it is enslavement to powerful— but surmountable—conditioning.

And yet, no matter what bravery we show to the world, most of us have recurring doubts about our worth. We worry that we’re not desirable enough, good enough, successful enough. We fear we’re not enough, period. Intellectually, we may appreciate that loving ourselves would give us a firm foundation, one from which we could extend love out into the world. But for most of us this is a leap of logic, not a leap of the heart. We don’t easily leap toward things we don’t trust, and most of us don’t trust that we are worth loving.

Why is it so difficult for us to love ourselves? Why is it so much harder to offer ourselves the same sort of care and kindness that we readily dispense to our friends?

Artwork by H A R M O N Y]

[Image Description: Drawing of different colored hands holding each other to form a circle with text inside reading "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. - Dalai Lama"]

11/20/2021

05/06/2021

https://apple.news/AX8XuQI2-RtOHDXNjCqEL_g

The pandemic has done a number on us, in too many ways to count. Our bodies are responding with feelings of fatigue and lack of focus, experts say. Here are some tips to help you feel better.