Living With Anxiety: 2 Easy Strategies for Managing Stress By Monica Pitek-Fugedi, LPC, NCC Anxiety is like a toddler with a megaphone, relentlessly screaming until it gets your attention. If it had a motto it would be why worry tomorrow when you can worry today? Anxiety tells us that we have something to fear. […]
4 Powerful Ways to Lessen Anxiety If we let it, anxiety will fool us into believing that we are incapable of living a well-functioning life. It tells us a story of weakness, and makes us live in a world of “I can’t.” This sounds horrible, right? We all tell ourselves stories about who we are. […]
This is the third article I have written regarding SWATTING. You may be hearing about SWATTING in the media recently. Many reporters have been discussing the rise of SWATTING. However, SWATTING has been occurring with teenagers who play online gaming since 2019. In 2019, I wrote on of my first articles regarding this new teenage […]
Parents worry about their teenagers starting High School, however, they also worry a great deal about their teen going off to college. When a teen starts high school a parent can still watch what is going on and help out if they feel they need to. However, with college their teenager is on their own. […]
Feeling Constantly Behind at Work? You’re Not Alone.In today’s fast-paced work culture, feeling overwhelmed has become an all-too-common experience. Often, the core issue isn’t the workload itself—it’s how we manage our time. When our priorities aren’t clear, we get stuck in cycles of stress, scattered attention, and diminishing productivity. This article explores the connection between […]
Yes it is that time of year again — Prom Season. However, the proms in 2025 are very different from the proms in the 1980s and 1990s, when most parents attended their proms. Due to school mass shootings and the pandemic, many schools have changed how proms are conducted. One thing that has not changed […]
AI is everywhere. You can’t scroll, type, or even breathe on the internet without bumping into some new tech that’s supposedly going to “revolutionize” your life. But for a lot of people, AI doesn’t feel like a revolution—it feels like a threat. You’re not alone if you’ve ever wondered: Am I going to be replaced? […]
You may have heard the term eating disorder – and perhaps you know someone who lives with one. Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions marked by disrupted eating patterns and a harmful impact on both physical and emotional well-being. In this blog, we aim to shed light on what eating disorders are, explore several […]
Anyone who has a teenager knows that the teenager think that they know everything and they do not need anyone’s help, especially teenage boys. Many parents have had major arguments with their teenagers because they have tried to offer their teenagers advice about how to handle different lite situations. I have had many teenagers sit […]
Living abroad is a transformative experience that can bring both excitement and challenges. As a cross-cultural adaptation therapist with over two decades of experience working with expatriates, I’ve observed common patterns in their emotional journeys. This article explores the expatriate experience and how therapy can help navigate its unique challenges. The Initial Leap Many people […]
