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5 Strategic Ways To Help Your 2025 New Year’s Resolutions Stick

12/26/2024

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With the start of 2025 right around the corner, this time can be a time of self reflection and processing. Maybe you've been spending more time on social media envious of others' posts. Maybe you have been reflecting on your progress in 2024 and want to make changes to reflect a goal.  Maybe you've had recurrent thoughts about wanting to change, but feeling lost on how to get started.

Ongoing questions remain.  What would I like to see over the next year? What are my yearly goals? Can I celebrate the wins along the way?
How do I plan to follow through on these goals? In this post, we will talk about 5 strategic ways to help your 2025 new year's resolutions stick.



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​Breastfeeding Grief: A letter For The Postpartum Mother

8/2/2024

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The postpartum journey is filled with new experiences.  Even with multiples, every newborn experience can be hectic and unique.  From getting to know our body again, healing, and trying to connect with your most precious little baby. Mix all of these changes in with hormones, body pains, and fresh emotions, the feeding experience may be a high form of stress for you. 

​Trying to exclusively breastfeed, there could be high pressure to be constantly needed but touched out and tired. Anxiety, fear, loneliness, and sadness may be especially high if the expectation and reality of feeding your new baby is not what you expected.

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Unbalanced Grief: Coping With Terminal Cancer

8/1/2024

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Grief is a feeling that many know,  although it's likely we wish we didn't. Bereavement after end stage cancer is so difficult and the loss of a loved one is immeasurable. Together, it may feel that it would be impossible to heal. In this blog, I will explore some strategies to help you, your family, and the cancer community to process and grieve. Know that as you start and continue this journey of healing that there is more than one "right" way to grieve a loss. The overall goal is not to forget but to balance our feelings in remembering the love and the light and not the illness.  To live in the pain without breaks would be unbearable. To try to only ignore and hide would likely lead to unhealthy tendencies. Let's explore finding a balance for you.

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How Alcohol Use Can Exacerbate Mental Health Symptoms

4/19/2024

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​Understanding the impact of lifestyle choices on mental health is more important than ever. Among these choices, the role of alcohol is significant and often misunderstood. Let’s dig deep into how alcohol use can exacerbate mental health symptoms, shedding light on the complex interaction between substance use and psychological well-being.

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Stages Of Communication: How To Discuss Medical Treatments With Our Youth

2/5/2024

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Have you noticed more opportunities to discuss health with your child? Have they been asking more questions about something they heard on the news? Have you recently donated resources to an organization centered around health? Perhaps more conversations are centered around someone in the family undergoing treatment. Whatever your reason for starting the conversation, we want our youth to feel heard and supported while talking about illness.
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Anxiety Management: How To Use Guided Imagery To Reduce Physical Symptoms

1/18/2023

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​Whether you have repetitive negative thoughts or not, you likely feel some anxiety throughout your body.  This form of stress may be felt regularly and intensely and is a physical symptom of worry. 

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The Doctor Will See You Now: A Look At Psychiatry

11/2/2020

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Psychiatrists can be a vital part of a mental health team. They have great knowledge of mental health diagnoses, symptoms, and medication. Along with therapy, Psychiatrists can help their patients make improvements in their mental health and well-being.

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10 Tips To Maintain Social Comfort While Social Distancing

8/5/2020

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I bet you’re having a tough time with this socially distanced communication. You’re not alone. I’m hearing that many of you feel lonely. This is completely understandable. We’ve had to socially distance ourselves for months.  With the distance apart, we are missing touch and connection which is a huge component of a positive lasting relationship.

While we wait for a sense of normalcy, I’d like to help. Here are some ways to feel connected to others and follow the guidelines for social distancing.

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High On Life: How Exercise Can Improve Mood And Outlook

10/7/2019

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Ever finish a workout and get a burst of energy? Runners call this a “runners high” but you don’t have to be a runner to receive the benefits of exercise.

As you read this, you are most likely at “baseline.” Baseline is when an individual is cool, calm, and collected. While most of us stay at or around baseline the majority of the day, we all deviate from this area and experience highs and lows.

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Helping Others While We Take Care Of Ourselves

9/17/2019

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While helping others, we must ensure that we are also taking care of ourselves. When we are healthier, we are more likely to be able to help others. By getting restful sleep, eating a balanced diet, getting physical exercise, taking breaks, and having a support system, everyone is more likely to feel less strained.

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    Megan Bowling, M.A., LMFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has been in the mental health field for more than ten years and is passionate to share mental health wellness strategies.

    Megan Bowling LMFT is located in Orange CA 92868.  She specializes in individual and couples therapy.
Megan Bowling, M.A., LMFT 
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist | CA #100409
P: 714.519.6041  |  e:[email protected]
22600 Savi Ranch Pky Ste A28 Yorba Linda, CA, 92887
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