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How To Journal For Mental Health + Free PDF of 30 Prompts

If journaling is something you’ve been intrigued by, but just haven’t been able to bring yourself to do it, you’ve found yourself in the right place. Because this article right here, is the ultimate guide to get you to start journaling by getting the most

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For New Yorkers

Finding A Therapist in NYC: What Is The Best Approach?

If you are looking to start therapy in NYC, one of the biggest hurdles to get over is sorting through the hundreds (if not thousands) of options that exist in Manhattan (not mention Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island). And full disclosure – I know how

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For New Yorkers

No Health Insurance? Here are 10 Ways To Get Therapy

If you’re ready to start taking care of your mental health, but don’t know how to afford therapy without insurance, I feel you. I’ve been there. But you’re in luck! Because below is a list of creative avenues you can take to get the mental

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Coping With Anxiety

3 Tips To Stop Being A Procrastinating Perfectionist

If you find yourself procrastinating because you want everything to be perfect, welcome to the club! As a fellow procrastinating perfectionist, I’m sure you can imagine how long it took me to write and edit this post, let alone sit down to actually type it

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Coping With Anxiety

How To Stop Eco-Anxiety From Taking Over Your Life

If you are constantly worried about the state of our planet and starting to feel pretty hopeless about anything changing, it is likely that you are experiencing eco-anxiety along with a touch of existential dread. Please know, you are not alone in this. I provide

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Coping With Anxiety

10 Of The Most Powerful Self-Compassion Quotes

Have you ever come across a quote that activated hope inside of you and had the power to completely turn your day around? Well today my friends, if you’re in search of that kind of quote, you’re in luck. Because I’ve gathered my top 10

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For New Yorkers

How To Gain The Mental Health Benefits Of Reading Books

If you’re someone who enjoys reading, but just can’t get yourself to read these days, this post is going to help you fall in love with reading again. And also gain the many mental health benefits of reading. I too, have always loved reading books.

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Taylor Swift Therapy

This Taylor Swift Breakup Song Can Actually Help You Heal

When Taylor Swift released the highly anticipated 10-minute version of All Too Well, I woke up and immediately played it twice in bed and twice while making coffee, before realizing “Wow. I just spent almost 45 minutes listening to the same song over and and over

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Coping With Anxiety

Hate Being Alone? Try These 5 Tips From a Therapist

Do you dread weekends where you don’t have every moment filled with some kind of plan or event? Or feel stressed and lonely if someone cancels on you? If so, there is one mind shift you need to enjoy being alone. I remember being fresh

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Coping With Anxiety

1-Minute Mindfulness Exercises That Will Ease Your Anxiety

You’ve probably heard about the benefits of practicing mindfulness. It can help reduce anxiety, increase self-awareness, encourage kindness, and even improve tolerance around physical pain. And luckily, mindfulness can be practiced in any moment, even for just 1 minute at a time. It’s like a

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Coping With Anxiety

6 Tips On How To Be Social After The Pandemic

We are coming up on a year of social isolation. The general assumption is that as more of us get vaccinated, life will become one big celebration. Everyone will be partying and happy and all will be swell again! For some of us, that may

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Taylor Swift Therapy

10 Taylor Swift Songs To Help You Process Strong Emotions

It is a rainy day in Brooklyn. I am sitting at my kitchen table, drinking an iced coffee, listening to Taylor Swift’s brand new album, Folklore, on repeat. It was unexpectedly released last night, and I have now found myself, unexpectedly, overwhelmed by emotions. Taylor

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When You're Sad

Why Creating Moments of Joy Is Better Than Being Happy

For many of us, being happy is the goal, right? But what does “being happy?” really mean? And is it realistic to think that you can “be happy” all the time? The answer is… unlikely. Humans just aren’t made that way. However, what you can

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Cat Lover, Host of The Furever Forest, and LGBTQIA+ Affirming Psychotherapist in NYC.

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