Biofeedback is an emerging treatment methods which helps you increase awareness and influence “…physiological, emotional, and cognitive activity by using signals from your own body to improve your health and performance” (Khazan, 2019, p. 4). While some may believe biofeedback is a relaxation technique, it is actually a learning process with its main purpose to …
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Mindfulness is a practice rooted in Eastern traditions, but has rapidly extended to Western culture. Mindfulness is “a process that leads to a mental state characterized by nonjudgmental awareness of the present moment experience, including one’s sensations, thoughts, bodily states, consciousness, and the environment, while encouraging openness, curiosity, and acceptance” (Hofmann & Gomez, 2017, p. …
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Anxiety encompasses feelings of worry about certain events and features many physiological symptoms such as increased heart rate, sweating, and fatigue. Increasing research is showing that many will experience anxiety at some point in their life. In many cases, anxiety is normal. However, it can become a clinical problem when it impacts daily activities and …
COVID-19 has impacted the way we live in numerous ways from how we run errands to how we school our children to how we interact with others. However, I would argue no domain of society has suffered more than the family unit. Parents have been plagued with worry about the economic and physical safety of …
Check out this great article by Asma Al Blooshi about remaining positive in a time of uncertainty. We will get through together! Remain connected with each other. Be in nature. And practice gratitude and kindness! If you are struggling with negativity and need some extra help, give Mountainview Counseling a call! We’d love to help …
Parental burnout is a concern that has gained increasingly more attention especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and requirements for children and adolescents to receive education from home in an online setting. Parental burnout is characterized by three symptom domains: exhaustion, emotional disinterest, and poor self-efficacy in the parenting role (Kawamoto et al., …