Panic Attacks and Little Debbies
I need to be more transparent. I need to stop glossing it over. I need to stop posting about a life that is edited with filters and lighting. I need to tell more people that [...]
Therapy
Tweet Roundup | This Week’s Funniest “Therapist: No.” Jokes
I like to call therapy “baggage claim.” - Aparna Nancherla. Enjoy this week's funniest "Therapist: No." Jokes! [...]
Tweet Roundup | This Week’s Funniest Tweets About Therapy
It only takes one therapist to change a lightbulb, but the lightbulb has to *want* to change. Enjoy this week's funniest tweets about therapy! [...]
The Monster in My Corner
CW: child abuse and sexual abuse are mentioned, though not in detail I was diagnosed with PTSD in 2017. When I walked out of the psychiatrist’s office that day, I held the [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
