anxiety tools

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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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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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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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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 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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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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