by Dr Aletta | Mar 24, 2024 | Anxiety, Depression, Happiness, Life Matters, Relationships, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Stress, Well-Being
There’s a place where resiliency is stretched so far that we break. Most of us are familiar with the frog in the pot story. The frog in the slowly heating up pot of water adapts to the temperature, making it work. Going from chilly cold to comfy warmth, the frog... 
by Dr Aletta | Mar 9, 2024 | Adulting, Anxiety, Stress
When I start to think about tax preparation, usually New Year’s Day, there’s a chipmunk in my stomach that wakes up to rummage around, causing mild anxiety. Then the sarcastic, critical voice in my head starts in… “Yeah, I told you! The time to begin tax prep is in... 
by Kendal Vaarwerk | Aug 4, 2023 | Anxiety, Depression, Good Therapy, Grief, Mental Health, Self-Care, Stress
Think about the veteran returning from war, the horrific and overwhelming experiences they had. Experiences where their autonomic nervous system (fight-or-flight) was propelling them to escape, but they could not. This often causes a dissociation from reality, the... 
by Dr Aletta | Jul 22, 2023 | Adulting, Life Matters, Self-Care, Stress
How To Handle Things When Everything Is Hard On the edge of Bryant Park on 42nd Street, behind the Fifth Avenue New York City Library with the resting lions in front, there’s a restaurant. An assistant editor from Glamour and I walked over from her office in the... 
by Dr Aletta | Jul 10, 2023 | Anxiety, Mental Health, Self-Esteem, Stress
“The biggest source of stress inmy life is the screen, the blogging.” ~Jessica Valenti, founder and editor ofFeministing.com Editor’s Note: While the website being quoted in this blog post (Feministing.com) may have ceased publishing, it is... 
by Dr Aletta | May 15, 2022 | Anxiety, Body/Mind, Life Matters, Stress
“What I am hopeful for is that this incident will bring us together, because… this could have been any one of us or any one of our loved ones… this should bring us together and not tear us apart.” ~Trini Ross, U.S. Attorney. Western District of New York I hope,...
