Q: Can you tell me a little bit more about your work experience? A: Following graduation from my Bachelor of Arts degree, I began my career in social work as a Foster Care case manager as I also continued my education by working on my MSW. I found that I enjoyed working with children and […]
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Q & A with Lynn Bryant, LMSW Q: Can you tell me more about your work experiences? A: I worked for 12 years at Pine Rest working with children and families dealing with conflict, ADHD, parenting skills, ODD, anxiety, and depression. Q: What areas of counseling are you passionate about? A: Working with teenagers,
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What is mental health anyway? We hear the term mental health often but what does it mean? According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services “Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to
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Sometimes life isn’t fair. How we think about setbacks in life can effect the way we handle stress. Changing unhealthy thoughts can improve how we deal with stress and setbacks. This video by Amy Morin, LCSW explains how to be mentally strong by changing thought patterns. Morin is a licensed clinical social work that has written the bestselling
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Feel like you are drowning? Can’t quite get ahead in your day? Week? Month? That feeling can come, of course, from the very real fact that we have too many critical or important things going on that we feel we need to attend to. There are a few things to try to keep in mind.
Half Empty -or- Why We Focus On What Doesn’t Work Everything keeps on breaking! Nothing works likes it’s supposed to. I spoke with one angry and exasperated soul who was having trouble controlling his temper. I observed that our attention is drawn to that which does not work. We never notice when we get in our
I was brought to thinking about expectations after I was on a flight back home from a quick trip to California for a funeral. End of life always brings a certain amount of self-reflection about one’s place in life and what may (or may not) lie ahead. In the plane on the way home, one
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“I’m going to help you paint that barn,” my dad said. I was living on a turn of the century farm house with a sizeable barn that was in desperate need of a paint job. “I don’t want to paint that barn,” was my honest reply. I had enough on my plate with work and
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