Jennifer L. Darling, LCSW, LSCSW

07/05/2025

06/24/2025

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/exactly-why-mean-youre-overstimulated-152627504.html

No, you're not a bad person. Here's what's really going on, according to science.

06/15/2025

DBT - Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
Distress Tolerance Module.
Radical Acceptance.

06/03/2025

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/7-quick-easy-ways-soothe-220047336.html

Add these stress management techniques to your toolkit.

06/03/2025

Get ready for the best summer ever with these summer affirmations! These will boost your mood like nobody's business.

06/03/2025

05/31/2025

🧘‍♀️Mindful Living Tip of the Week
Too Busy to Read This? Exactly. Busy Is a Four-Letter Word.

🗣️Let’s talk about the hustle status symbol we all love to hate:
Busy.

We toss it around like confetti:
“How are you?”
“Busy!”
(No follow-up needed. We’ve all nodded like that means everything’s fine.)

🛑But here’s the nervous system scoop:
“Busy” isn’t just a calendar issue. It’s a full-body experience. And often one that feels like anxiety dressed up in a productivity costume.

The more we glorify it, the harder it is to notice when we’re not okay.

Try this:
🧘 Replace “busy” with the truth.
Next time someone asks how you are, try “I’ve had a full plate lately, and I’m learning to clear it.”
Watch how that shifts the energy (yours and theirs).

📆 Add blank space to your day.
Literally. On your calendar. Like an important meeting with your own nervous system.

🧠 Remind yourself: You don’t have to earn rest or play.
Not with output. Not with efficiency. Just by being a human who occasionally needs a minute (or ten).

Being “not busy” isn’t lazy.
It’s a radical act of nervous system kindness.