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Depression

Start 2019 Off In A Healthy Way By Writing a Positivity Journal

January 1, 2019 by Dr Jennifer Hartman

Happy New Year! Let’s commit together to starting 2019 in a healthy way. I’d like to invite you to join me in writing a positivity journal for six weeks, from early January through Valentine’s Day. It takes just 5-10 minutes a day and offers the possibility of improving your mood by training your brain to focus on the positives in your life. Are you curious to see what changes could happen for you?

Filed Under: Anxiety, Blog, Depression, Emotions, Gratitude, Journal Writing, Positivity, Self-care, Wellbeing, Wellness

Good Psychology Reads: “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened” and “Furiously Happy”

January 15, 2018 by Dr Jennifer Hartman

There’s nothing quite like reading an author who really, really gets it. And if you’ve ever struggled with depression or anxiety, writer Jenny Lawson really, really gets it. She has made a living writing about her personal life with a great deal of emphasis on navigating life with mental illness.

Filed Under: Anxiety, Blog, Book Recommendations, Depression, Mental Illness Tagged With: author, book recommendations, Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, mental illness, psychology reads, reading

Depression is a Lying, Manipulative, Thieving, Self-Important A-Hole

November 3, 2016 by Dr Jennifer Hartman

Depression is kind of an a-hole. There, I said it. Please pardon my crude language but I think it’s an apt description. Depression can turn a perfectly lovely, capable, intelligent person into an irritable, lethargic, confused, pessimistic mess. It is notorious for telling very convincing lies, and these lies are often big whoppers packing a […]

Filed Under: Blog, Depression, Exercise, Meditation, Mindfulness, Psychotherapy, Yoga Tagged With: Depression, psychotherapy

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