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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Transgender-affirming Care: When Did You Know?
At Indigo Path Collective, we practice informed consent. Even when you need a letter to clinically document your gender experience, we will work with you to do what is required to achieve your healthcare goals legally and ethically.
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.
turmeric to reduce PTSD-related inflamation
According to the US Department of Veteran Affairs, about six out of every 100 Americans experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Turmeric may be an effective, natural herb to aid in resolving trauma.
“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.
The Kids Aren’t All Right When They’re Abusing Their Parents
Kids abuse their parents at alarming rates, according to research that points to acts of child-to-parent violence in upwards of 65% of the families studied. Yet, most studies indicate that parent abuse is underreported.
Parental Abuse is Real
The first step is recognizing the behavior for what it is—abuse. If you are experiencing abuse by your kid at any age, seek help right away. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233
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.
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.
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?
What Are Your Pronouns?
Have you noticed that LinkedIn and email signatures are chock full of pronouns?
Let’s Talk About Trauma
Everyone on the planet has likely experienced some form of trauma. From car accidents and bullying to abuse, neglect, and family dysfunction, trauma seems to be the norm, although most of our traumatic experiences are unique to us individually. So why is it that we fail to recognize the impact of trauma in our lives?
Make Your Workplace Mentally Well
Years ago, as a consultant, I attended a meeting to turn around one of America’s iconic retail brands. Sitting in the meeting surrounded by employees of the business and other consultants, we considered the state of the business. We provided insights into how the company could resolve its issues and reemerge as a trusted and sought-after brand.
You Can Change the World by Focusing on Your Mental Health
Something extraordinary is happening in the world concerning mental health. More than I have seen in my lifetime, a focus on mental health is everywhere--on the news, in movies, across commercials, and at work and school.
Find the Right Counselor for You
If you are shopping for a counselor in today’s market, you have many wonderful folks from whom to choose. In fact, there are so many counselors available to you that making a decision might feel overwhelming. Yet, you can select the right counselor for you, and your choice is critical to fuel your counseling goals.
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