From Our Team
Why January Feels so Hard
January is often marketed as a fresh start, but for many people, it feels anything but light. If you’ve noticed low energy, emotional heaviness, anxiety, or a sense of disappointment creeping in after the holidays, you’re not alone. Searches for things like “January...
Don’t Get Your Tinsel in a Tangle
The holiday season is often pictured as cozy, joyful, and full of connection, but for many people, this time of year feels…complicated. You might love certain parts of the season while feeling overwhelmed, lonely, stretched thin, or emotionally off-balance.
Winter Blues : Its The Most SAD Time of Year?
As the days get shorter and the temperatures drop, many people notice shifts in their energy or mood. Maybe you’re feeling more tired than usual, craving carbs, or just not feeling quite like yourself. That might leave you wondering: is this just winter? Or, is something more going on?
Passing the Torch – Keeping Your Light Shining Across Generations
How Intergenerational Connection Strengthens Mental Health In an age of digital distraction, remote work, and ever-changing social landscapes, meaningful human connection, a cornerstone of mental wellness, is struggling to keep up. One of the most powerful, and often...
How to Keep Politics From Ruining Your Family Relationships
In today’s world, few topics create as much tension around the dinner table as politics. Many families find themselves divided by deep emotional and ideological lines that seem impossible to cross. But beneath the headlines and heated arguments lies something...
Planting Trees You’ll Never See : The Meaning of Legacy
By Lucanne Magill, DA, LPMT, MT-BC, LCATHave you ever asked yourself, “What is it about my life that has been and is special and meaningful? What are my unique gifts and what am I passing on to my loved ones and others?” In our social and familial circles, the term...
If Not You Then Who? Loving and Caring for Ourselves
By Lucanne Magill, DA, LPMT, MT-BC, LCAT“I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken” -Ram Dass So often we experience our daily lives as swirling, defined by planned activities and crowded agendas. So often our schedules are interrupted by pressing...
Therapy vs. Coaching
With 21% of adults in the US experiencing at least one mental illness (which equates to roughly 50 million people), and 55% of these adults having not received any treatment [2023 State of Mental Health in America survey], the demand for mental health and wellness...
What is Music Therapy?
Hi there! My name is Hanna and I am one of the board certified music therapists here at Brinkley Brown Mental Wellness. What comes to your mind when you hear ‘music therapy’? I’ve heard some interesting responses such as “So, do you teach music to kids?”, “Do you just...
New Year, New You? Not So Fast…
Should I make a New Year’s Resolution? It should come as no surprise then, that only 8% of people who make resolutions actually adhere to them all year with 80% having failed by the start of February.
Woop There It Is!
In the last post, I discussed affirmations and some additional considerations when attempting to shift your way of thinking. In that post, you learned that affirmations are a great tool for increasing positive thoughts and improving general well-being. But, they...
Affirmations
“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.” (LeGuin, Ursula K. 2004. The Wave in the Mind: Talks and...
The Power of the Mind
Your mind is a powerful machine. Your mind houses your ability to think, feel, and take action and is separated into the conscious mind and subconscious mind. Your brain is the physical organ that responds to the mind. Your mind generates energy when thinking,...
How to Shift Your Thoughts
As mentioned in a previous post, YOU have the power to determine how your experiences shape your life and your future by what meaning you assign to them. If you view them as inherently positive, they will provide an overall positive outlook on life which will affect...
The Subconscious Mind
This article will help explain why accessing the subconscious mind is important and an efficient way to modify unwanted beliefs and/or behaviors. Your brain and central nervous system are comprised of billions of neurons which ingest and process stimuli in real time...
Hypnosis
When I say “hypnosis”, what comes to mind? For most people, it conjures up images ofcomedy shows where volunteers from the audience get hypnotized and start acting likechickens or singing opera, etc. “Hypnosis is”, in fact, “an altered [yet natural] state of awareness...
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