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Giving Thanks: From Clients' Perspective

November 23, 2016 | Addiction, Counseling, Emotional wellbeing, Housing, Mental health, Recovery, Sobriety

If you're like many people preparing for this Thanksgiving holiday, right about now you're checking your menu over and over again. All the pieces are there: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce,

Eat Your Veggies: Nutrition and Mental Health

November 18, 2016 | Anxiety, Coping, Eating right, Emotional wellbeing, Exercise, Mental health, Nutrition

I'll go out on a limb here. I'll bet that more than a thousand times growing up, your parents told you at dinner, "Eat your veggies. They're GOOD for you!" We've certainly learned through our doctors and research that

Election Anxiety: Coping Skills for the Next Couple of Days

November 4, 2016 | Anxiety, Coping, Counseling, Elections, Mental illness, Partners

"It's almost over!" I heard those words from a friend across the street the other day as he got home from work. He'd been feeling anxiety over this year's election - as have a lot of other people, according

45 Minutes of Caring: One Police Officer's CIT Training Prevents a Suicide

October 13, 2016 | Cit, Crisis intervention training, Mental illness, Partners, Police, Suicide prevention, Training

What\'s it like for a police officer to get that call to help someone who may be ready to take his or her own life? For those like Loveland police officer Amy Campbell who took Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training

A Pill's All It Takes- and Other Mental Health Treatment Myths

September 14, 2016 | Addiction, Counseling, Emotional wellbeing, Mental illness, Partners, Recovery, Rx drugs

Back in the day, Hollywood’s view of mental health counseling looked pretty simple. Movies and TV shows that showed any portrayal of counseling showed the person lying on a couch and facing away from the

September is Suicide Prevention Month

September 2, 2016 | Addiction, Counseling, Emotional wellbeing, Recovery, Suicide awareness, Suicide prevention

September is Suicide Prevention Month, a time when organizations around the globe stop to consider the toll suicide takes and how we can all work together to prevent it. Whenever there is a suicide, survivors are left