Category: Family and Marriage
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Mental Health Awareness Month Series! Breaking the Stigma: Depression
This video by the National Alliance on Mental Illness is only one minute long but it captures a brief overview of what depression manifests as in someone’s life. Depression, formerly known as Depressive Disorder in the DSM-5 is more than a simple sad feeling or having a sad day. I think it is used as…
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Mental Health Awareness Month Series! Breaking the Stigma: Anxiety
Since it is Mental Heath Awareness Month all month long I wanted to write a mini series about some common mental illnesses to help continue to share and discuss ways we can break the stigma of mental illness. I really like the resources on a few websites which I find helpful to share with others…
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Beauty In the Counseling Process
I love spring time. After the cold dark winter season here in New England we get a celebration of warmth, sunshine and new blooms. As I was walking this week I noticed the lily pads coming to the surface of our local pond. I reflected on the simple beauty of the lily pad and how…
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Managing the Moment
During the past two months it is fair to say that so much has changed, and yet so much remains uncertain and stuck. It really makes things difficult. There is so much online some days it almost feels like information overload to me. I cannot honestly say because I lost count, how many times I…
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Managing Depression With Exercise
It’s been a difficult few months being in isolation from friends and community. I realized how much of my joy despite being an introvert comes from 1 on 1 time with others. Being pregnant also makes me more emotional. Rain and gray days also make me more depressed. I never realized how much the weather…
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My Story
Recently I have been nudged by multiple people to start writing on a blog again and participating in social media. The last time I blogged and did this was in 2014, so much time has passed and yet it still feels like only a little while ago. I have hesitated and finally feel ready to…
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We All Get Tired
And they went to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.” And going a little farther, he…
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Naomi
‘But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands? Turn back, my daughters; go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a…
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Ruth
In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his…
Colleen Smith, LMHC, NCC 