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Sleep Hygiene

April 24, 2023

By: Riley Fortier, M.Ed. Following healthy sleep habits will help you fall asleep and stay asleep better. There are a multitude of different practices, called “sleep hygiene” that are used to maximize the amount of time you’re spent sleeping. 12 tips to improve your sleep Avoid caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, and other chemicals that interfere with sleep. Turn your bedroom into a sleep-inducing environment. Establish a soothing pre-sleep routine. Go to sleep when you’re truly tired. Don’t watch the clock Use natural light during the day to your advantage Keep a consistent sleep schedule Nap early or not at all Finish your last meal hours before bedtime Drink enough water during the night so you’re not thirsty, but not enough to make you get up. Exercise earlier in...

Pelvic Pain

April 10, 2023

Gender and Sexuality, Health and Wellness

Pelvic pain By: Riley Fortier, M.Ed. What is pelvic pain? Pelvic pain is pain in the pelvic area, originating in the genital area or around the pelvis, or due to psychological stressors like PTSD and trauma. It can either be acute or chronic. Acute pelvic pain is sudden and severe, or chronic, meaning the pain comes and goes, or is constant, lasting for a period of 6 months or longer. What causes pelvic pain? The general causes are: Inflammation or direct irritation of nerves caused by injury, fibrosis, pressure, or intraperitoneal inflammation Contractions or cramps of both smooth and skeletal muscles Some of the more common sources of acute pelvic pain, or pain that happens very suddenly, may include: Ectopic pregnancy (a pregnancy that happens outside the uterus) Pelvic inflammatory disease...

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Open Relationships & Polyamory

March 27, 2023

Couples and Relationships, Gender and Sexuality

Open Relationships & Polyamory There are many ways that folks can decide to have their romantic, sexual, or platonic relationships. Most people are familiar with monogamy, where two people are in a closed, committed relationship with each other. Most people practice serial monogamy, where they only date one person at a time, but they don't date only one/the same person their whole lives. However, there are other relationship structures that people may use. In this article, we will go over the basics of open relationships and polyamory and what that means. Open relationship a relationship in which the couple pursues (usually sexual) connections outside their main relationship can be used as an umbrella term for different forms of multiple relationship structures many times used in context as short-term...

Therapists in the Real Word: We’re Struggling Too

March 15, 2023

Health and Wellness, Mental Health

By Ryan Cocron, LMFT and Kat Glick, LPC, LCADC, ACS, SAP Disclaimer: this is based on our own experiences and the experience of therapists we know. We recognize that each therapist’s interaction with the work is different and unique, as is the impact of the job on each individual therapist. It is our hope with this blog that other therapists who are having a hard time may feel seen and validated through what we share here. The Pandemic Therapists are struggling right now, even more than before. When the pandemic started, therapists shifted from seeing people in person to seeing people virtually. During that time the world slowly began to fall apart and more people were seeking out therapy to process the collective traumas that were occurring in...

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