Coping with Holiday Stress
Don’t Let Stress Ruin the Holiday The holidays are upon us and that, for many, means holiday stress. While the...
Author: Meg Van Deusen
Dr. Van Deusen received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles in 1992. She has cultivated deep knowledge of attachment theory and stress and has worked with various populations over her two and a half decade career. Her practice is in Seattle, Washington. Buy her book Stressed in the U.S.: 12 Tools to Tackle Anxiety, Loneliness, Tech-Addiction and More here
Anxiety Self Help Tips
Plagued With Anxiety? A Simple Intervention. I often tell my clients that anxiety loves to feed on the unknown. It...
Living in a World of Information Overload
We are living in a world of information overload. Text messages, emails, notifications, instant messages, robocalls, TV news, radio news...
Feeling Lonely
Addressing Loneliness A teenager, heavily involved in sports, debate club, music and her small, seemingly cohesive country school suffers daily...
How to Reduce Stress – Three Simple Ways
Decrease Your Stress in a World of Technology and Information Overload How can you reduce your stress? Smartphones, tablets and...
Nature as a Stress-Reliever
Nature is a great stress-reliever. When stressed it’s good to have a resource outside oneself that isn’t dependent on having...
What is Mindfulness?
A Mind on Mindfulness What is mindfulness? Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of mindfulness as we know it in the US says,...
Children and Stress
Helping Kids be Resilient to Stress Children and Stress: Resilience in children Children and stress. In the 2017 September issue...
The Difference Between Anxiety and Stress
What is the difference between anxiety and stress? I was running as fast as I could, heart pounding, fear gripping...
Can A Positive Event Be A Cause Of Stress?
Is it possible for a positive event to be a cause of stress? While we associate stress with negative circumstances,...