Boundaries -using gestures to say no

Healthy Boundaries: How to Set and Stay Within Your Limits

Post author:Urim Recovery
Post published:August 2, 2022
Post category:Boundaries Lifestyle Strategies Stress
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Maintaining healthy boundaries is crucial if you want to lock in your gains from therapy. Learn how to set boundaries as a part of self-care.

Identifying the source of stress is important for stress relief

Stress: Proven Ways to Manage and Reduce its Impact

Post author:Urim Recovery
Post published:July 20, 2022
Post category:Anxiety Coping Skills Meditation Mindfulness Stress
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As intuitive as it may seem, it's not work, finances, health or relationships that cause stress. Our stress is often caused by how we feel about these things.

Autogenic training- guided meditation for deep relaxation

Autogenic Training – Learn How to Manage High Stress

Post author:Urim Recovery
Post published:July 17, 2022
Post category:Anxiety Coping Skills Meditation Sensory Stress
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Autogenic training is a deep and powerful relaxation technique that can help you attain a calm regulated state by using repeated self-commands.

Even rational thinkers get irrational thoughts

The Rational Thinker’s Guide to Distorted Thinking

Post author:Urim Recovery
Post published:July 6, 2022
Post category:Anxiety CBT Strategies Stress
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Cognitive distortions are patterns of distorted thinking that skewer the way we interpret events and cause us to think inaccurately.

Sensory overload -adjust the dial down

Sensory Overload: What’s Your Threshold of Tolerance?

Post author:Urim Recovery
Post published:June 29, 2022
Post category:Anxiety Coping Skills Sensory Strategies Stress
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Sensory overload may show up as fatigue, irritability or shutting down. This can impact our sleep routines and create additional problems.

The power of one and hope

Maintaining Hope in Turbulent Times

Post author:Urim Recovery
Post published:June 24, 2022
Post category:Coping Skills Purpose Social justice Strategies Stress Trauma
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Staying grounded helps us maintain hope in turbulent times. Maintaining empathy, perspective, staying grounded or mobilizing creates hope.

In defense of defensiveness

In Defense of our Defense Mechanisms

Post author:Urim Recovery
Post published:June 3, 2022
Post category:Attachment Coping Skills Neurobiology Neuroception Polyvagal Theory Self-Compassion Stress
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The journey to self-compassion lies in developing greater tolerance of the body’s defense mechanisms that show up as defensiveness.

Destigmatizing Mental Health Services

Post author:Urim Recovery
Post published:April 12, 2021
Post category:Identity Mixed-Race PTSD Racism Stress Third Culture Kids Trauma
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So much has been said in 2020 about destigmatizing or decolonizing mental health services, but what do we really mean? It's an opportunity to step back and consider how as providers we send subtle and not so subtle messages regarding normalcy.