During this quarantine, do you find yourself stuck in your head a lot?Chances are that if you are like most people, you have been struggling with a number of difficult or unhelpful thoughts. Anxious and worried type thoughts are pretty common these days, as are hopeless thoughts, and all sorts of various types of negative thinking. This is perfectly normal. Your thinking mind often generates thoughts quite automatically, seemingly outside your ability to directly control for

In our last post we talked about how getting into a rut and routine without variety might be a bad thing during this pandemic. Doing the same things over and over without variety will likely lead to a feeling of malaise. We talked about how to use mindfulness with intentional scheduling of pleasurable and mastery building activities can help us cope. This week however, we're going to talk about how certain routines and rituals can actually be helpful - in particular morning a

Cabin Fever. You're probably feeling at least a little bit stir-crazy at this point. I know I am. Most of us are several weeks into some type of job furlough, quarantine, stay-at-home order...and we can likely anticipate several more weeks of this to come. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if you were feeling more irritable, agitated, bored, and even feeling the first signs of depressive symptoms. It's incredibly important to be very intentional about self-care strategies. Not