Behavioral Health Blog

Different Family Exercises to Reduce Stress Many families with busy schedules understand how difficult it is to find the time necessary to lead a well-balanced life. Making family stress management part of your daily routine can greatly improve your mental health. Exercising together as a family is one of the best ways to reduce stress. Exercise can help reduces stress, lower the risk of…

How to Make Your Relationship Last Starting a romantic relationship can be a fun and exciting time. You’re likely thinking about your partner throughout the day, and probably view them as the greatest human being in the whole world. However, the flood of “love hormones” in your brain eventually slows, and the honeymoon period comes to an end. After the initial honeymoon period fades,…

What is Toxic Empathy? What is Empathy? Empathy is, "the ability to understand and share the feelings of another." Empathy is typically a quality that people seek to have. So how can too much empathy be a bad thing? What is Toxic Empathy? Toxic empathy is when a person over-identifies with someone else’s feelings and directly takes them on as their own. For example,…

How to Improve Your Multitasking Skills Does sleeping past your alarm for the second time this week sound familiar? After waking up the kids, you rush into the kitchen and attempt to quickly make up for lost time. You try throwing sandwiches and fruit into lunchboxes for the kids while eggs are frying and bread is toasting. All the while, your eyes are switching…

Getting Along With Your Grown Up Siblings If you grew up with siblings, you know that bickering, finger pointing, and fighting as kids is part of having a brother or sister. In fact, sibling relationships in childhood can be a template for individuals to be able to develop healthy social skills and conflict resolution strategies that we use in relationships throughout our lives. What…

How to Lower Anxiety and Stress By Making a List We all know that stressful feeling of being in a deep sleep, and suddenly your eyes snap open and you are wide-awake. Anxiety starts to set in when you realize how much you have to do the next day. You find yourself scrambling out of bed to find a piece of paper and a…

How to Manage Anxiety in a Changing World With tragic events like global terrorism random acts of violence on the news, we tend to feel anxious about venturing outside. Today’s 24/7 news coverage of terrible events can make us feel powerless in the face of dangers beyond our control. However, there are some steps we can take to control our anxiety and make our…