By Molly Barrett Have you ever wondered how using art can improve your personal mental health? There are many benefits to incorporating the arts and creative expression into the therapeutic space or into your personal routine. Benefits can include reduction in anxiety, body tension, mood disturbances, and depression as well as an improvement in self-worth, …
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You Should Start a Journal
There are all kinds of mental, emotional, and physical benefits to keeping a journal. It is great for practicing self-care, mindfulness, and helps you understand the world around you. In other words, journaling helps you grow as a person! It sounds simple (and it is), but writing your feelings and thoughts down on paper helps …
Quick Stress Relief
Stress can be hazardous to both mental and physical health. Unmanaged stress can cause headaches, fatigue, sleep problems, anxiety, irritability, depression, angry outbursts, social withdrawal, and over or undereating, just to name a few. There are numerous ways to help manage stress: yoga, meditation, exercise, ect. However, sometimes we need to relieve our stress quickly. …
Childhood Mental Health and Sensory Issues
By Katey Garoutte, LMSW Many of the problematic behaviors parents, teachers, and mental health providers typically associate with depression, anxiety, ADHD, or ODD diagnoses can also be caused or aggravated by sensory processing and integration problems. People who have problems with processing and integrating sensory experiences are experiencing what A. Jean Ayres, Ph.D. calls a …
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I Know Logically…And Yet I Feel…
By Brandi Schmitt, tLMHC As I sit in my office across from my clients, whether it be in person or now via telehealth, the heaviness of the burdens my clients carry becomes all too clear. Many clients report feeling simply exhausted by the struggle to loosen themselves from their trauma, depression, fear of abandonment, and …
Complicated Grief in the COVID-19 Era
By Tiffany Johnson In June, I attended a webinar on Complicated Grief in the COVID-19 Era. Expert panelists Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv, Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, and Leah McDonald, MD, explored the complicated grief that will likely emerge from the pandemic. One area of grief discussed was deaths during the pandemic and how complicated grief …
Movin’ For Your Mind
By Reyna Melendez Studies have shown that exercise can not only improve your physical health, but also reduce anxiety levels and raise your self-esteem. Creating an exercise routine is difficult, but I hope to share with you some tips on how to get started and stay motivated! Goals are everything- want to work out twice …
COVID-19 Plan to Return to Face-to-Face Sessions
By Julie Johnson As the state of Iowa continues to open up through the COVID-19 pandemic, Heart and Solutions is dedicated to the safety and needs of its clients and team members. As of the date of this article,Iowa Medicaid has extended telehealth coverage until June 25th, 2020. We recognize the clinical need that many …
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Dealing with Negative Mental Health Impacts from the COVID-19 Pandemic
As discussed in last month’s article, the COVID-19 pandemic can have a negative impact on our mental health. If you are feeling overwhelmed with some of these issues, please contact Heart and Solutions for telehealth therapy and behavioral health intervention services (BHIS) today. Many insurance companies including BCBS, United, Medicaid, and Medicare are covering mental …
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Heart and Solutions Offers Telehealth!
The COVID-19 pandemic makes you feel grief, depressed, anxious, numb, scared, and numerous other emotions can be filled in here. Stress from this outbreak can look like worry and fear about your and your loved ones’ health, difficulty concentrating or sleeping, changes in eating and sleeping patterns, worsening mental and chronic health problems, and/or the …
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