Learn More About Mental Health & Wellness
Articles from Pine Rest experts and vetted mental health resources on a wide variety of topics to support your family's and your mental health, relationships and wellbeing.
Gratitude is highly correlated with happiness and life satisfaction. It makes us feel good when we look at the good things in our lives. Help your children to think gratefully and coach them on practicing gratitude.
Caregiving can test every emotional and physical limit, yet it can also deepen empathy, patience, and love. Elizza LeJeune shares tips on how to care for yourself when you’re a caregiver for others.
Times of discord and crises create the perfect storm for increased anxiety. Learn how anxiety may be showing up in your life and how you can cope, using these strategies from Elizza LeJeune, LMSW.
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Making New Year’s resolutions can be a constructive and positive activity. Learn how to devise strategies to help you successfully keep them.
As the holiday season approaches, parents can proactively work to combat the “screen time creep” and help children focus on what the holidays are intended to be about—spending quality time with family and friends.
The holidays can be exponentially more difficult for individuals with depression, but there are steps you can take to manage both your depression and the holidays season.
Tips to help you deal with financial stress around the holidays from the American Psychological Association.
Striving for perfection can be exhausting! This holiday season, why not strive for “good enough”?
The holidays can be so hard for those struggling to cope with a significant loss … Take good care of yourself and give yourself permission to consider doing things differently this holiday season, using these tips from Grace Wojdak, LPC.
Busy schedules and too much excitement can make the holidays a challenging time for kids. Amanda Shaneberger, MA, LPC, shares parenting tips to help keep the holiday season merry and bright–for you and your littles!
Unrealistic expectations for the holidays often end in disappointment and lead to problems. Therapist Jean Holthaus provides a recipe for realistic holiday expectations so you can have a healthier, happier holiday season.
Be kind. Be nice. Be respectful. Be complimentary. The Golden Rule applies to healthy family systems–especially during the holidays!
Wondering how you’ll balance all those holiday expectations with the demands of a new infant? Relax – you do NOT have to do it all! These practical tips from Pine Rest’s Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders clinical specialty team will help you enjoy a happy holiday season with baby!
Yes you CAN maintain your sobriety while enjoying the holiday season–or any social gathering throughout the year where alcohol is present–using these tips for sober celebrating.
