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TGIF | Navigating Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma: A Guide to Emotional Resilience
While empathy and compassion serve as a beacon of hope and unity, such feelings can also be a source of internal struggle. By the end of today’s newsletter, I want you (and my dear friend) to have more support in handling the big feelings related to witnessing other’s suffering.
TGIF | Empathy in Global Conflict: Fostering Shared Humanity and Kindness
The question I got was fraught with anxiety and pain this week - “Kerry! How do I handle this toxic world in which it feels like everyone is literally at war with one another? I feel helpless, hopeless, and overwhelmed.”
TGIF: How to Change the World with One Word
And ultimately, our deepest relationships start at home. Where can we all be in more choice to put down the screens and turn towards each other?
TGIF: How to Slow Down Your Busy Life
In breaking down this question, what I’m hearing is the need for control and efforts to plan in order to manage a desirable outcome with all the responsibilities - career, health, kids, family - in your life. You’re busy and your life is full.
TGIF: How to Get Someone to Go to Therapy
SO MANY couples struggle with the growth mindset gap. One partner is actively working on themselves, in therapy, reading all the books, meditating, and eating green juice while the other partner is still binging booze, addicted to social media, going out with friends until midnight, and denying the need for any help. It can be infuriating.
TGIF: How to Thrive with Adult ADHD
I feel I’m addicted to procrastination and the adrenalin that stress gives me by working in fits and bursts, but I know it’s not healthy. I wonder if this might be ADHD and can I really help it?
TGIF: How to Handle Back-to-School Anxiety
Hey Kerry, I need some advice to help my kid with anxiety starting the school year. We had a great summer but their anxiety has increased a lot since starting school, making it hard to focus and get motivated.
TGIF: How to Handle Back-to-School Anxiety
In this week’s TGIF, Kerry shares TOOLS, GRATITUDE, INNOVATION and FEELS as she answers a reader’s question about supporting their child with back-to-school anxiety.
TGIF: Managing End of Summer Anxiety & Blues
It’s getting colder, summer is over and I’m feeling blue. Did I enjoy summer enough? Did I make it magical enough for my kids? I don’t want warmth and sun to end, I’m afraid of coming colder months. What is this?
TGIF: When Your Truth Hurts Others
This week’s question comes from someone embarking on an exciting new life chapter following divorce, but trying not to carry the emotional fallout into her new season of life.
TGIF: Managing Perinatal or Postpartum Depressive Mood and Anxiety
This week’s question comes from a new mom experiencing perinatal anxiety. Even if you yourself are not pregnant or in the newborn stage, I believe her question and my response can relate to anyone.
TGIF: Coping with a Loved One’s Serious Illness
Life has this uncanny way of throwing curveballs our way when we least expect it. One of the most challenging curveballs is when a beloved family member falls ill. It's like being caught in a whirlwind of emotions, uncertainties, and tough decisions.
TGIF: When Therapy Is Intimidating
Let’s be real- no matter how far mental health destigmatizing has come along, unfortunately there is still a stigma about being “someone who goes to therapy”.
TGIF: Navigating Rejection
I’m really struggling with how to navigate the relationship with my son. He’s seemed to shut me out and I don’t know how to relate. I feel terrified and hurt, afraid I’ll lose him forever. What should I do?
Why Reset Does What Reset Does: TGIF - A June Update from Kerry
Just understanding, at the basic level, how the tenants of rest, breath, connection, movement, and nourishment are vital to our mental health. These 5 pillars are what make Reset, Reset Brain and Body and are everything to how we approach mental health care.
An Open Letter to the Givers
Contributing to burnout, helpers also have a tendency to feel the weight of all the world’s problems. Not just focusing on the things they can control, they see the enormity of pain and hurt in the world, oftentimes feeling the responsibility to fix it all, help everyone, and spend a lot of time in despair and worry.
What If You Stopped Complaining?
It is bigger things like mom guilt, loneliness, and missing friends from home. It’s then even more things like venting or complaining about other people, passing judgment while doing so. With awareness, we realized, we can complain a lot.
A Truth Inside of Us
So much of our lives are lived trying to be human. To fit in, to excel, to get safe, to feel content, to aspire, to inspire, to laugh and be happy, and have a meaningful life.
How to Build Resilience Through a Holistic Mental Health Lens
And co-regulation is developed through cultivating calm. How do you get calm? You do the small things, every day, with extreme regularity that regulate your system.
How to Get Out of Your Own Way
Do you know what you want? Honestly, that’s the first question to ask yourself when you’re feeling stuck.
What do I want and what am I prepared to do to achieve it?