a better us.

A Better Us is a blog series that explores current issues in holistic health at work, at home, in the community, and for you. Follow Indigo Path Collective on Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn for new blog entry announcements, or check back frequently for updates.

Parent Abuse Signs and Strategies for Help
Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh

Parent Abuse Signs and Strategies for Help

Parent abuse is one of those things that no one seems to be talking about. Yet, it’s happening daily in every community across the United States and around the world. Minor children can and do abuse their parents and custodial guardians in a lot of different ways. However, most of the time, this abusive behavior is brushed under the rug or explained away because of the child’s age.

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Implicit Biases…Everyone’s Got Some
Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh

Implicit Biases…Everyone’s Got Some

Nearly every person you meet shows up with some degree of bias. Oftentimes, these biases are implicit, meaning under the surface of conscious awareness. Then again, some folks show up with biases that are front and center in their thoughts and behaviors, making them explicit. Knowing your implicit biases can help you better see, hear, understand, value, and validate others simply because you know what is under your thoughts.

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Let’s Encourage LGBTGEQIAP+ Health Equity Optimism
Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh

Let’s Encourage LGBTGEQIAP+ Health Equity Optimism

Regarding LGBTGEQIAP+ health equity, we have an audacious opportunity to improve how data is collected, analyzed, and interpreted. The good news is that the LGBTGEQIAP+ is building momentum by securing our legislative and social positions. As many setbacks as we have experienced, which are entirely too real for far too many of us, progress is also being made. Together, we can make health and healthcare work for everyone, and the LGBTGEQIAP+ community may be the key that opens the door to better health everywhere.

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Create a Values-guided Executive Team
Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh

Create a Values-guided Executive Team

In the dynamic landscape of corporate leadership, the synergy between individual values and company values stands as a linchpin for organizational success. At the helm of this synergy lies the executive team, tasked with steering the company and aligning their personal values with the overarching values of the organization. This alignment is pivotal, as it fuels a unified leadership approach that cascades throughout the entire workforce.

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Master the Math of Effective Boundaries
Mental Health, Relationships, Holidays, Self-Love Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh Mental Health, Relationships, Holidays, Self-Love Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh

Master the Math of Effective Boundaries

Setting boundaries is an art and a science, a delicate balance between respecting oneself and others. It's about establishing guidelines safeguarding our values, protecting our emotional well-being, and fostering healthier relationships. But creating effective boundaries involves more than just drawing lines; it's a formula that encapsulates values, permissions, verbalization, individual opinions, defense strategies, and consequences.

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Happy holiday boundaries
Counseling, Relationships, Holidays Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh Counseling, Relationships, Holidays Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh

Happy holiday boundaries

As we enter the end-of-year holiday season, many of us will start to experience high anxiety with just the thought of spending time with certain friends and family members or even co-workers. Sometimes, we start drinking early to ease our stress and improve our ability to share space with those folks. Other times, we isolate, panic, argue, or go overboard, trying to control everything around us. If this sounds like your end-of-year holiday experiences or expectations, boundaries may help you achieve your holiday expectations.

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Create an LGBTGEQIAP+-affirming healthcare setting
Integrated Behavioral Health, LGBTGEQIAP+, LGBTQ, Trauma-informed care Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh Integrated Behavioral Health, LGBTGEQIAP+, LGBTQ, Trauma-informed care Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh

Create an LGBTGEQIAP+-affirming healthcare setting

You can build an LGBTGEQIAP+ trauma-informed care practice, and we can help. From designing the program to creating your system and providing training and communication with LGBTGEQIAP+ patients, their families, and providers, Indigo Path Collective can guide you toward fully implementing your affirming healthcare practice.

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LGBTGEQIAP+ Trauma-informed Acute Care to Maximize Health Outcomes

LGBTGEQIAP+ Trauma-informed Acute Care to Maximize Health Outcomes

Like anyone else, members of the LGBTGEQIAP+ community appear in the emergency department, urgent care, and other acute care settings. Unlike other populations, however, members of the LGBTGEQIAP+ community often experience hostility in these fast-paced healthcare settings. To that end, more can be done in acute care to create trauma-informed care practices to maximize the health of LGBTGEQIAP+ patients. If you are ready to create a trauma-informed acute care setting, take a seat. Let’s talk.

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Let’s Talk about HIV
Integrated Behavioral Health, Mental Health Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh Integrated Behavioral Health, Mental Health Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh

Let’s Talk about HIV

After so many decades, HIV continues to be a problem for members of the LGBTGEQIAP+ community. There are things we can do to eradicate HIV, and it will take all of us to achieve just that. Three factors seem to be most important. Additionally, we have to identify how minority stress is doing damage to the community’s health outcomes.

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No Pass when it comes to cannabis use disorder
Mental Health, Integrated Behavioral Health Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh Mental Health, Integrated Behavioral Health Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh

No Pass when it comes to cannabis use disorder

Using cannabis in the United States is rising and quickly becoming a multi-billion dollar industry. From smoking joints in the 1970s to vaping, eating, and more today, daily use of cannabis has doubled in the United States, according to some experts. However, some of us do not consider cannabis addictive. Come to find out, we’re wrong. Cannabis can be addictive, similar to other legal substances.

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Toxic Christianity
Religious abuse, Mental Health Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh Religious abuse, Mental Health Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh

Toxic Christianity

Millions of people every year are abused and traumatized by Christianity. Toxic Christianity often negatively impacts those who are members of the religion and those who experience this religion in their communities due to Christian-influenced community norms and legislation being forced upon them.

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“Obesity” Can get in the way of healing
Integrated Behavioral Health, Trauma Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh Integrated Behavioral Health, Trauma Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh

“Obesity” Can get in the way of healing

Research suggests that 5.8% of us with an obesity diagnosis also experience post-traumatic stress disorder. But, that obesity diagnosis might be getting in the way of healing. There is a way to gain the life you desire, and it likely starts with resolving the trauma so that it no longer gets in your way.

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Introducing integrated behavioral healthcare

Introducing integrated behavioral healthcare

Is healthcare letting you down? Do you get frustrated because your doctor and counselor don’t seem able to get on the same page or offer you completely different perspectives on what you’re going through? We can fix that for you with integrated behavioral healthcare.

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Manager Support is Essential when Employees Experience Discrimination and Harassment
Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh

Manager Support is Essential when Employees Experience Discrimination and Harassment

Issues of discrimination and harassment can be scary, to put it mildly. But, as a manager, you can enable employee, team, company, and community success and future mental wellness by not sweeping these issues under the proverbial rug. Support your people. Listen to them. Believe them. Trust that they know their experience best.

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The Fight Continues
Counseling, Family Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh Counseling, Family Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh

The Fight Continues

2021 PRIDE is coming to an end. For many of us, the celebrations quiet, the protests weaken, and we go back to life as usual. But does it have to be that way? Could every day be a day full of PRIDE? After all, what is PRIDE, if not visibility of the nearly 18 million people that live next door, down the street, or across the way?

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What Are Your Pronouns?
Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh

What Are Your Pronouns?

Have you noticed that LinkedIn and email signatures are chock full of pronouns?

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