If you’re reading this, I’m going to take a wild guess: you’re curious about how trauma is treated through the lens of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Maybe you’re a clinician wanting to learn more about applying DBT to trauma, or perhaps you’re someone who has experienced trauma and is searching for ways to cope, heal,…
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Anxiety in Children and Teens: What Parents Can Do
Being a parent is inherently challenging, and it can become even more complex when your child or adolescent struggles with anxiety or other mental health conditions. Let us begin by understanding what anxiety is. Anxiety is a natural physiological, emotional, and psychological response that occurs within the body to signal potential danger (Manassis, K., 2015). …
How Low Confidence Shows Up in Our Mental Health
Self-confidence is the belief in your ability to make decisions, express ideas, and navigate challenges. It’s the internal sense that says, “I can handle this.” When self-confidence is low, it becomes harder to trust ourselves. We second-guess our actions, avoid risks, and often shrink from growth opportunities. This often overlaps with low self-esteem – how…
Tuning In: How the Vagus Nerve Helps You Come Home to Your Body
Feeling out of it lately? Like your brain and body are on different planets? You’re not alone. Whether it’s the constant stream of bad news, the stress of trying to keep up, or the exhaustion of navigating life in uncertain times, your nervous system may be working overtime just to keep up. The experience of…
Compassion in Action: Supporting LGBTQ+ Loved Ones on Their Fertility Journey
Happy Pride Month from all of us at Wildflower Center for Emotional Health! This Pride Month, we are shining a light on how to be an effective ally and friend to people in the LGBTQIA+ community going through infertility. Infertility is a deeply emotional experience, and for LGBTQIA+ individuals and couples, the journey to parenthood…
The Highly Sensitive Parent: How to Navigate the Overwhelm and Embrace Your Strengths
Parenting is challenging for everyone—but for highly sensitive people, parenting can feel especially intense. The daily sounds, chaos, emotions, and decisions can stir up big feelings and overstimulation. If you identify as a highly sensitive person, you’re not alone—and you’re not broken. In fact, you may have strengths that make you an especially attuned, empathic,…
Postpartum Depression: What Are the Symptoms?
If you’re in a season of having kids or considering having kids, chances are you know someone who has experienced Postpartum Depression (PPD). Studies show as many as 21% of new moms experience PPD (Wisner et al., 2013), but what does that actually mean? We are going to break down the symptoms associated with PPD…
Recognizing and Celebrating Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness about the emotional and psychological challenges that many women face during the transition to parenthood. Conditions like postpartum depression, anxiety, and other perinatal mood and anxiety disorders often go undiagnosed and untreated, affecting not only mothers but also their families and children’s development. Although…
The Silent Struggle: Perinatal OCD and Intrusive Thoughts
Before giving birth to your child, you might have expected sleepless nights, dirty diapers, and emotional ups and downs. What you might not have expected were terrifying, intrusive thoughts that seemed to come out of nowhere. Some of these thoughts might look like images of accidentally dropping your baby down the stairs or of harming…
Addressing Physician Burnout: Roadmaps to Wellness
Burnout is a growing and deeply concerning issue within the medical profession. It is not a matter of inadequate coping skills or personal weakness. Burnout is a response to chronic, often overwhelming demands placed on physicians in today’s healthcare system. At Wildflower Center for Emotional Health, our team of licensed therapists work with many physicians…
