Your life unfurls a bit more each day, and the present moment in your life can be plenty stressful. Add a tendency to worry about the future to the mix, and it would seem like one of the best things you can do for yourself would be to leave your past in the past. However, […]
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Fans of pinball—perhaps you are one!—love to spend time trying to keep a silver ball in play on a tilted table while racking up points. Generally, a player gets three balls to score as many points as they can, and if they score enough, they might win a free game. True masters of the game
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Do you know the story of Herbert the Snail? If you attended Vacation Bible School or Sunday School as a small child, there is a pretty good chance you do. Herbert is the main character and it is a song about patience. The chorus of the song goes like this: Have patience, have patience Don’t
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Jobs are demanding. So much time is spent working, and your job might ask a lot of you physically, mentally, or both. Issues and challenges at work can lead to high levels of stress while making it hard to relax, even when you are not on the job. Tight deadlines, conflicts with coworkers or supervisors,
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Sometimes, it can seem like all you do is work, right? You work at, well, work. But that might just be the beginning. There are always projects and chores to do at home—cooking, cleaning, folding laundry, mowing the lawn, and on and on. You might have work to do related to a volunteer project at
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Mental health difficulties affect all kinds of people—including athletes at the very top of their game. It is also the case that sports can serve as a useful metaphor for some truths about improving your mental wellbeing. In this post, we are going to look back on three previous entries. The first pulls together some
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Your mental health is, of course, a big deal—arguably one of the biggest deals in your life. And when something is a big deal, it can seem as though it requires big gestures to keep things moving in a positive direction. In some ways, that is certainly true. You could make a case, for example,
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In a recent entry about being intentional when you talk to yourself, we encouraged you to be intentional when it comes to the way you talk to yourself. After all, most of us tend to be our own worst critics—and listening to that inner chatter can damage a person’s self-esteem and worsen symptoms of mental
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In a recent entry, we took a look at the information available under the “resources” tab at the top of our website. In this post, we turn our attention to the tab just to the left of “resources”—the “conditions we treat” tab. Peak View Behavioral Health is staffed by a team of highly trained and
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Often, when a person goes to a restaurant, they need to spend some time looking at the entire menu. Maybe they have never been to this spot before and want to take in all the options. Maybe they don’t really know what they are hungry for. Maybe they want to break out of a rut
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