Rituals and ceremonies are important parts of marking the changes and transitions in your life. Purposefully creating a space to mark the passing of time is a helpful way to mentally leave and let go of what has been and to fully step into what is becoming.

Finding yourself wide awake hours before your alarm is set to go off can be a frustrating situation to find yourself in. Below are a couple of practices you can explore to support you in finding sleep for the second time that night.

When you cannot sleep it can ruin your entire day. It can be difficult to get out of bed when you feel like your night was spent tossing and turning rather than resting and rejuvenating. Fortunately, there are things that you can do to help support a good night’s rest.

Stress can be an ultimate catalyst to chaos. An increase in stressors and limited opportunities to be away from home can be a formula for family arguments if left unchecked.

Collectively, we are in a unique moment where we are all vulnerable to the ways in which death has seeped into multiple aspects of our modern lives. How we choose to deal with this direct threat to our health is a window into our cultural worldview and individual psychologies.

There is a gender gap in counseling referrals for children in elementary schools where boys are getting referred to therapy at a higher rate than girls (Green, Clopton, & Pope, 1996; Chamberlain, 2020). Part of the reason this happens is because boys are more likely to act out, making their symptoms of trauma easy to see. Boys are more likely than girls to call attention to themselves when they need help.

Did you go unseen as a child who survived trauma? Maybe you know someone who endured their pain in silence without ever getting the help they needed. We can end silent suffering by learning to see the quiet ways children ask to be seen.