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30/04/2025

🌸Women’s Hormones & Depression: What You Need to Know🌸

Are you or someone you love navigating perimenopause or menopause and feeling more anxious, down, or emotionally off balance?

📊 Studies show women are significantly more likely to experience depression during perimenopause—even if they’ve never had it before. Hormonal shifts, sleep disruption, and life transitions all play a role. https://mindworthytherapy.com/womens-hormones-and-depression-what-to-know-about-perimenopause-and-menopause/

✨ You deserve support—emotionally, physically, and hormonally.

📞 Ready to talk? Call us at 847-497-5730 to schedule your first session. Let’s navigate this transition together. 💚

03/03/2025

Bullying can present in many forms and can have long-lasting effects on a child’s mental, emotional, and physical well-being. As adults, it is our responsibility to understand, prevent, and address childhood bullying to ensure that every child has the opportunity to thrive in a safe and supportive environment.

It is crucial to recognize that both the bully and the bullied need support and intervention. Bullies themselves may be victims of abuse or neglect at home, while bullied children may suffer from low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, or thoughts of self-harm. Understanding the root causes of bullying can help create effective prevention strategies.

When bullying occurs, it is important for adults to address it promptly to prevent further harm. To continue reading on some ways to address bullying effectively: https://mindworthytherapy.com/understanding-preventing-and-addressing-childhood-bullying/

14/02/2025

How Self-Criticism Contributes to Depression and What You Can Do About It🪞

Have you ever experienced a tiny voice inside your head that points out your flaws, failures, and mistakes? Does this little voice sometimes feel so overwhelming that you can’t help but listen to every word it says? You aren’t alone in this. In fact, many people have an inner voice that self-criticizes. While engaging in self-reflection can be positive, too much of it can be destructive to our self-image and can even lead to depression. How do you find a balance between self-criticism and self-reflection?

Check out our blog and learn more about how self criticism feeds depression and strategies you can use to overcome self criticism: https://mindworthytherapy.com/how-self-criticism-contributes-to-depression-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

03/01/2025

How to Communicate Mindfully 📢

Communication is more than just talking; it is a valuable skill that can transform personal relationships, professional interactions, and overall well-being. Mindful communication is about being fully present and engaged in conversations, listening actively, and responding thoughtfully.

The Importance of Mindful Communication
1. Enhancing Relationships
2. Reducing Conflicts
3. Boosting Emotional Intelligence
4. Improving Mental Well-Being
5. Supporting Problem-Solving

Pease click to read this blog post and learn tips to increase your Mindful Communication!
https://mindworthytherapy.com/how-to-communicate-mindfully/

11/12/2024

Understanding Emotional Regulation🌡️

Emotional regulation is the ability to understand, manage, and respond to emotional experiences. For children, this means recognizing their feelings and knowing how to express them appropriately. Emotional regulation helps kids cope with challenges, build relationships, and improve their overall mental health.

Children may not naturally know how to regulate their emotions. Just like learning to ride a bike or tie their shoes, it takes practice and guidance. As parents, you play a key role in teaching these skills.

The following article offers tools for parents to support their children in developing emotional regulation skills.
https://mindworthytherapy.com/children-and-emotional-regulation-tools-for-parents/

Mindworthy Therapy is a counseling practice that helps kids & teens, adults, couples and families heal, learn and grow so that you can build a life worthy of you!

23/10/2024

How to Manage Stress in a Polarized Political Environment ⚠️

Within the last decade, society has politically split in two. Often, it’s more trouble trying to bridge the gap with our loved ones than it’s worth.

Whether you’re having debates at the dinner table, heated discussions on social media, or getting constant news alerts about the latest controversies, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Here are steps you can take to manage this stress and keep a sense of balance in your life.

https://mindworthytherapy.com/how-to-manage-stress-in-a-polarized-political-environment/

18/10/2024

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟

We’re thrilled to announce that Arianna is joining our team of therapists! 🎉 With her expertise in working with children and teens, along with her bilingual skills in Spanish, Arianna is ready to make a positive impact.

Arianna will begin seeing clients later this month, and we couldn't be more excited! If you or someone you know is seeking counseling services for a child or teen, don't hesitate to reach out.

👉 Schedule a FREE 15-minute consultation with Arianna today by calling us at 847-497-5730. Let’s support our young ones together! 💙

03/05/2024

Exploring Exposure and Response Prevention and Its Impact on OCD

What is OCD?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental health disorder characterized by intrusive, unwanted ideas, thoughts, or feelings (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions) aimed at reducing the distress brought on by those obsessions.

These compulsions provide only temporary relief. Afterward, anxiety returns, and the cycle gets reinforced. Over time, these obsessions and compulsions can take over a person’s life and make it hard to complete daily tasks.

Living with obsessive-compulsive disorder can feel like being caught in a relentless cycle of anxiety and lack of control. One therapeutic approach that has been scientifically proven to treat OCD is exposure and response prevention. ERP can completely change the way someone with OCD responds to their triggers.

What is ERP therapy?
https://mindworthytherapy.com/exploring-exposure-and-response-prevention-and-its-impact-on-ocd/

18/04/2024

4 Signs You Might Be Entering a Narcissistic Relationship⚠️

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is an individual who truly believes themselves to be superior to others and expects to be treated as such. Narcissists have specific traits that may include:

Grandiose sense of self-importance
Fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or love
The belief that they are special and unique and can only be understood by other special or high-status people
Needs excessive admiration
Sense of entitlement
Lack of empathy
The belief that others are envious of them
Arrogant and conceited behaviors

At first glance, it can be challenging to identify these individuals. Like with other mental and personality disorders, the severity of symptoms differs per person.

People with NPD present as charming and likable, potentially tricking others about who they really are. This also makes them attractive as romantic partners. So how will you know if you are getting into a relationship with one? Here are 4 signs to watch out for when entering a new relationship.

https://mindworthytherapy.com/4-signs-you-might-be-entering-a-narcissistic-relationship/

07/03/2024

When Should You Be Concerned About Your Child’s Anxiety?🚩

As a parent, you want your child to live a worry-free life. While it’s natural for kids to experience occasional worries and fears, there comes a point when anxiety can evolve into something more pervasive. Anxiety can do damage to a child’s growth and emotional responses. Recognizing when your child’s anxiety may be cause for concern is the first step in providing the support they need to thrive emotionally and mentally.

Children can suffer from the same anxiety disorders as adults, including generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, or specific phobias. Anxiety can be caused by genetics, brain chemistry, traumatic experiences, grief, and even learned behaviors. Here are several concerning signs of anxiety to be on the lookout for in your child.

https://mindworthytherapy.com/when-should-you-be-concerned-about-your-childs-anxiety/

10/01/2024

Exploring Childhood Trauma’s Impact on Adult Relationships and Wellbeing
One of the key areas that early trauma negatively affects is attachment styles. Attachment theory puts forward the idea that our early experiences with caregivers shape our expectations and behaviors in adult relationships. Those who have experienced childhood trauma may develop insecure attachment styles later in life: anxious, avoidant, or fearful-avoidant (disorganized).
They may also unconsciously seek out partners who replicate those familiar dynamics, recreating the conditions of their early traumas. For instance, someone who witnessed domestic violence as a child might find themselves drawn to partners who are also aggressive, angry, and explosive.
Continue Reading: https://mindworthytherapy.com/exploring-childhood-traumas-impact-on-adult-relationships-and-wellbeing/