Counseling Corner

Put Nature To Work Fighting Your Stress

Stress is very much a part of our modern world. Whether it's the pressures of family responsibilities, personal obligations or the requirements of our jobs, there are ample opportunities for most of us to feel stressed and anxious a great deal of the ...

For Our Children, Risk Is Okay—Danger Is Not

It is often difficult for parents to accept that sometimes it's a good thing for their children to take risks. That doesn't mean that a child ought to constantly be putting themselves in danger -- that's never a good thing. But it does mean that our ...

Winter Weather Isn't An Excuse For Winter Inactivity

Cold weather hits and for many of us that means forgetting all about our promises to ourselves to stay more active. Instead we huddle up in our warm house and ignore the way our weight starts increasing, or the fact that we really don't feel as good...

It's Time To Salvage Those New Year's Resolutions

This is about the time of the new year when too many of us give up on those New Year's resolutions that we made just a few weeks before. We shouldn't. In most cases our decisions to change certain things were probably a good idea. The problem, many ...

Brain Fitness Can Help Fight Memory Loss

Most of us, as we get older, are likely to find that our memory doesn't seem to work as well as it once did. That can be a bit scary at times, but it usually is a sign of nothing more than the fact that we're aging ...

Helping Your Child Feel Better With A Lot Of Love

This time of the year most families are going to be faced with one or more children who are suffering from a cold, flu or other minor illness.

Face It — Holidays Are Rarely Perfect

While we would all like our holidays to be perfect, the reality is that the holiday period comes with lots of stress and anxiety for most of us, and that can lead to the holiday blues.