Children Aren’t Angry, They’re Anxious: 8 Ways to Spot Anxiety in Children
Almost every week, I receive calls from parents seeking therapy for their “angry,” “aggressive,” or “obnoxious” child. My answer is always the same: [...]
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Notes from Nanea | Scar-Gazing
My dear Sweatpants & Coffee tribe, I’ve been in the mental health trenches lately, as perhaps many of you are, and have been. Therapy has been wild. I wrote the other [...]
Sweatpants & Self Care | How to Keep Your Sanity Through Grief Anniversaries
As April rolls into May each year, I begin to feel the waves of major depression. Fuzzy thinking, sleeping all the time or not at all, no appetite versus wanting to eat all [...]
13 Unique Boxes That’ll Make the Perfect Gifts
The gifting dilemma is an every-year occurrence. I cannot tell you how many times I ask someone “what do you want?” and they reply “ Oh.. I dunno”. That doesn’t [...]
How to Be Better: 5 Things I Hate When I’m in Crisis
Being in crisis is a bridge that we all have to cross, probably several times within a lifetime. These are the times when our lives are turned upside down, from life changes [...]
Sweatpants & Sanity | Key Steps On How to Help Fight The Anxiety Demon Inside
All of us have dealt with anxiety—that persistent feeling of dread or edgy sense of worry that makes it difficult to sleep, eat or focus on anything else. Anxiety is a [...]
Sweatpants & Sanity | How I Found the Courage to Seek Help for Depression and How You Can, Too
Kelly Cutchin shares with us her guide to finding the courage to seek therapy, choose a therapist, and determine your mental health goals. [...]
Sweatpants & Sanity | That’s What She Said | Anxiety And How I Was Addicted To Everything
If you do it right, you can be addicted to everything By “it,” I mean taking online quizzes. I have been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety, [...]
Sweatpants & Sanity | Dear Naomi | Anxiety Advice Part 3 of 3 – Letting Someone New In After Abuse
Therapist Naomi Harvey continues her first advice column with part 3 on her responses to anxiety sufferers. In part 3, Naomi talks about how to let someone new in after an abusive relationship. [...]
Sweatpants & Sanity | Dear Naomi | Anxiety Advice Part 2 of 3 – I’m a Worrier – Could I Have Anxiety?
Therapist Naomi Harvey continues her responses to anxiety sufferers. In part 2 of 3, Naomi addresses a woman who worries she may have an anxiety disorder. [...]
