Coping with Anxiety

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Military Moms: How To Help Your Children Cope With Your Spouse's Deployment

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Military Moms: How To Help Your Children Cope With Your Spouse's Deployment

Frequently a challenge for military families who are uprooted is the lack of a support system for the parents and children. In such times of distress, kids might reach out to seemingly unlikely peers and trusted adults with questions, seeking advice, or for connection. It’s smart to talk with the people in your child’s life and explain what’s happening so they can help monitor any changes in behavior or mood and give additional support to your child.

 

From there, your family can do several things to prepare for an upcoming deployment or find a sense of normalcy and peace during one. Here are 4 tips for how to help your children cope with your spouse’s deployment 

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Four Tools To Help Manage A Panic Attack

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Four Tools To Help Manage A Panic Attack

People often use the terms “anxiety attack” and “panic attack” interchangeably but in reality, they are very different. If you have experienced the debilitating intensity of a panic attack, you’re familiar with the distress one can cause and the lingering worry that accompanies it’s passing. 

While anxiety has roots in future-oriented worry and manifests as a more low-level distress of extended duration, panic attacks are acute, coming on quickly and often without specific reason. Everyone experiences their own unique cluster of symptoms during a panic attack including both physical and emotional distress. 

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5 Ways Moms Can Prioritize Their Mental Health in 2023 | Therapy for Moms in Florida

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5 Ways Moms Can Prioritize Their Mental Health in 2023 | Therapy for Moms in Florida

While it isn’t always easy to make time to prioritize your mental health as a mom, here are five simple ways to put yourself first in the new year. 

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What Is Tapping? A Tool To Help You Cope With Anxiety

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What Is Tapping? A Tool To Help You Cope With Anxiety

Nearly three years in, we are finally feeling some relief to the stress and anxiety that accompanied living through a global pandemic. As mothers, it has felt like three years of constant stress and coping. Even without COVID, the pressure that moms feel daily can lead to chronic stress and anxiety. Many of my clients have struggled trying to cope on their own and come to me seeking relief from the discomfort of high stress in the body and mind. I teach my clients a variety of skills, filling their toolbox with resources to manage their anxiety even after they leave our session.


One such technique is Tapping also referred to as Emotional Freedom Technique. Despite the growing popularity of tapping in recent years, many people still are in the dark about what it is and how it can help their symptoms

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5 Tips on How to Cope with Feeling Overstimulated As A Mom

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5 Tips on How to Cope with Feeling Overstimulated As A Mom

Do you ever feel yourself holding on to your last bit of patience when you’re not even upset or angry about something? You may be overstimulated. In other words, your brain feels like it has 50 tabs open simultaneously, which can be overwhelming and frustrating.

Whether you go to work full-time or are a stay-at-home parent, there are a few creative ways to sneak downtime into your schedule. So if you feel yourself wanting to wear earplugs just to hear yourself think, keep reading. This article explores a few ways to cope with feeling overstimulated as a mom.

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How Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Help Women With Anxiety

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How Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Help Women With Anxiety

Motherhood can feel like a constant flood of stress, overwhelm and anxiety. With all the loud noises, never ending requests for help, constant touching, and overstimulating toys, being a mom in and of itself can cause extreme anxiety. When anxiety isn’t dealt with it can cause additional problems such as panic attack disorder, depression, and chronic stress.


What do you do as a mom with anxiety when feel like you’ve tried everything to cope with the anxiety on their own? Online therapy using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) methods has been proven as an effective way to combat anxiety and reduce stress.

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Four Tips To Help Moms Cope with Panic Attacks

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Four Tips To Help Moms Cope with Panic Attacks

If you’re a mom that has struggled with anxiety for some time, you may not know the difference between an episode of extreme anxiety and a panic attack. While panic attacks sit under the umbrella of ‘anxiety disorders’ they are far more severe and come on much more suddenly than a quick bout of anxious thoughts.

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Four Benefits of Seeing an Online Therapist During Your Pregnancy

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Four Benefits of Seeing an Online Therapist During Your Pregnancy

If you are pregnant, you probably have heard from friends, your family, your doula, or your OB-GYN about the possibility of experiencing postpartum anxiety and depression after delivery. Perhaps you’ve even considered that you might reach out to a therapist after your baby arrives if you feel like you are struggling with your mental health. But beginning to see a therapist while you’re pregnant can have significant benefits throughout your pregnancy and in your postpartum period. Here are four benefits of seeing a therapist during your pregnancy.

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Dear Mil Spouse: It’s Okay if You’re Not Okay! Coping with Anxiety and Depression During a PCS

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Dear Mil Spouse: It’s Okay if You’re Not Okay! Coping with Anxiety and Depression During a PCS

For anyone not in the military, it may sound cliche when someone says, “When the service member serves in the military, the whole family serves.” But for those of us who are family members of an active-duty service member, we know that this saying actually rings true. As the spouse of a service member, we may not serve on the front lines, but we make lots of sacrifices in support of our spouses’ duties and responsibilities.

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4 Ways to Cope With Change as a Mom

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4 Ways to Cope With Change as a Mom

Becoming a mom, whether for the first or fifth time, thrusts your life into a consistent cycle of change. Whether you’re figuring out how to adjust from breastfeeding to bottle feeding, preparing for your kid to go from Pre-K to Kindergarten, moving from a career outside the home to staying at home with your kids, or sending your teen off to their driver’s license test, the changes that present themselves in motherhood are like waves – both big and small – that never stop breaking on the shore.

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Coping With Anxiety as a Mom: Is Social Media Making You More Anxious?

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Coping With Anxiety as a Mom: Is Social Media Making You More Anxious?

Over the last decade, the use of social media in our everyday lives has impacted us tremendously. With the continuous development of new social media platforms, our world has become exponentially connected in ways it never has been. And while the importance and influence of social media in our lives has been in the negative spotlight for some time, the truth is that social media can have some really positive impacts on our lives, especially as moms.

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Coping With the Stress of Motherhood: You’re Not a Bad Mom for Needing a Break

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Coping With the Stress of Motherhood: You’re Not a Bad Mom for Needing a Break

Many moms are beyond the point of needing a break from their kids. We are all exhausted and burned out from parenting the last two years. Yet despite the consensus that we are tired, I can’t tell you how many times I hear moms say, “I feel guilty for needing time alone and away from my kids. Shouldn’t I always want to be with my kids? I feel like I’m a bad mom for needing a break.”

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Coping With Anxiety from the Pressures of Motherhood: Stop “Shoulding” Yourself

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Coping With Anxiety from the Pressures of Motherhood: Stop “Shoulding” Yourself

It’s no secret that moms face an immense amount of pressure in today’s world. Motherhood can feel overwhelming, and the various pressures we feel from society, our friends, family, and especially ourselves are enough to constantly set us on the verge of a panic attack.

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Combating Toxic Positivity: Learning to Accept Your “Negative” Emotions

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Combating Toxic Positivity: Learning to Accept Your “Negative” Emotions

When we dig deeper and stop to explore why there is a belief that something is wrong with having these “negative” emotions, there usually has been some kind of overarching message in that woman’s life that has said, “It’s not okay to be mad, angry, sad, depressed…” and the list could go on. This message could have begun early in childhood by parents, siblings, teachers, and friends, or it may have appeared later in life from professors, employers, romantic partners, or the community within which they live. While the message is that those emotions are bad, the other message communicated is “You just need to be happy. Just focus on the positive.” And this is where “toxic positivity” begins to take root.

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Coping With Anxiety as a Military Spouse: Triggered by the Invasion of Ukraine

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Coping With Anxiety as a Military Spouse: Triggered by the Invasion of Ukraine

The last couple weeks have been filled with worldwide tension as Russia invaded Ukraine. We have watched in horror and sadness as the Ukrainian people have fled from their homes and been separated from their family, friends, and loved ones, but also united together to protect their homeland. And while our hearts are breaking for the people of Ukraine, many military spouses’ anxieties and worries are running high for their own reasons. Military conflict has a way of stirring up our fears because of the unknowns of what the conflict may mean for our own families. If you are a military spouse and are feeling anxious and triggered by the invasion of Ukraine, that is completely understandable.

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Coping With Burnout in Motherhood: How to Complete the Stress Response Cycle

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Coping With Burnout in Motherhood: How to Complete the Stress Response Cycle

The last two years have been filled with stressful situation after stressful situation for moms. Between frequent class quarantines, trying to work from home, and limited support from family and friends, many moms feel like they are emotionally and mentally hanging on by a thread. The stresses of the pandemic combined with the normal exhaustions of motherhood are enough to make any person feel like they are breaking. At times, it has been like a never-ending tsunami of overwhelm and anxiety.

While we would love to be able to wave a magic wand and make the stressors disappear, unfortunately that isn’t real life. Instead, learning to cope with the stress by completing the stress response cycle can help reduce the experience of burnout.

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Learning to Let Go of "Mom Guilt"

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Learning to Let Go of "Mom Guilt"

Motherhood is hard, like really hard. And parenting in the time of a global pandemic is a whole other level of stress and difficulty. We aren’t going to always get it right. Rather than heaping guilt on yourself, almost as a form of self-punishment, try approaching yourself with a sense of self-compassion.

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Five Tools to Help Cope With Anxiety in the New Year

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Five Tools to Help Cope With Anxiety in the New Year

As 2022 rolls off to a fresh start, you may be reflecting on how to prioritize your mental health in the new year. Whether you’ve been dealing with anxiety for most of your life, or have found yourself feeling more anxious in the last two years than you ever have been, addressing your anxiety can have positive impacts on your mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Sometimes when you are feeling anxious, it can be overwhelming to know how to actually deal with it. Here are five tools to help you cope with anxiety in the new year.

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Five Ways to Prioritize Your Mental Health as a Mom in the New Year

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Five Ways to Prioritize Your Mental Health as a Mom in the New Year

Our minds and bodies are not designed to be under the constant and consistent stress that they’ve experienced the last two years. The majority of moms I’ve spoken to feel burned out, overwhelmed, and exhausted. While there isn’t a quick fix or a pill that will simply take the overwhelm and exhaustion away, by taking small steps to prioritize your needs and your mental health, you may begin to feel some relief or a reprieve from the stress. Check out these five ways to prioritize your mental health as a mom in the new year.

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How Can A Psychiatrist Help You During Pregnancy?

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How Can A Psychiatrist Help You During Pregnancy?

When I see patients in my office or through telepsychiatry, I typically hear that they are confused and upset by their symptoms. Often, it can be very isolating. Most women just want to enjoy what is supposed to feel like “the happiest time in my life.” While postpartum depression has started to get more press, peripartum anxiety is not often talked about, suspected or diagnosed. The good news is that peripartum disorders are often VERY treatable. The important thing is to be working with someone who has experience in this area, as symptoms can show up a little differently.

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