By: Mike Shulman, LCSW-C St. Patrick’s Day is a festive time of year for not just the Irish. There are celebrations all over the world, from the emerald green Chicago River to New York City’s oldest and largest St. Patrick’s Day parade in the world to Boston filled with its Irish pubs – even Tokyo…
By: Brian Warner She was a girl still in her wedding dress after leaving her fiancé at the altar. He was a boy newly divorced after his wife left him for another woman. What could go wrong? Maybe it’s no coincidence that one of the most famous relationships of the ‘90s was also one defined…
By: Sarah Cummings, ADT Valentine’s Day. For being a holiday all about love, it definitely brings out some of the strongest love/hate reactions from most of us. Being in recovery myself, I’ve learned that Valentine’s Day can be either a day full or excitement or a day filled with wanting to escape. It seems to…
About 1 in 10 people will have a panic attack at some point. But how can they make it through? Therapist Gabi Daigle, LGPC, has got you covered!
By: Julia Mason, LMSW Like we talked about last October, the Satanic Panic in the 1980s wasn’t just horrific because of the innocent caretakers sent to prison or the undue stress put upon children pressured into making false accusations. It definitely wasn’t that the devil really was behind it all. It was that, as people…
By: Brian Warner In a 1979 episode of 60 Minutes, Dan Rather hosted a segment on a strange new source of interest in the healthcare field: It may’ve been new to Dan, but mental wellness, a word you’re now much more likely to hear every day, has since become a $146 billion industry. All in…
By: Brian Warner In the 1880s, Sigmund Freud was still a young neurologist in Vienna using the cutting edge but controversial practice of hypnosis. When he started working with the Swiss noblewoman, Fanny Moser, though, she resisted every effort he took to use hypnosis. “You’re getting very sleepy,” he’d say, to which she’d respond, “No…
By: Aubrey Brown, LMSW Aubrey Brown, LMSW, primarily works with clients ages 9 – 18 on issues like depression, anxiety, ADHD, interpersonal relationships, and grief. All of those can be tricky things to live with at any time of the year, but grief is especially tough in the weeks leading up to the holiday season….
There’s trauma and then there’s Trauma. What’s the difference? Find out in our newest episode of No Stupid Questions, where Clinical Director Mike Shulman, LCSW-C, answers some of the questions we have after Hurricane Ian and what it takes to heal from disaster.
By: Brian Warner In her review of the 2019 remake of Child’s Play, Ruth Eshuis writes that it is a story built on wicked foundations and may only be enjoyable to those who take pleasure in evil . . . There are dark and heavy themes relating to death, abandonment, shallow friendships, bullying, guilt, and…